Rumour has it on twitter (so it must be true) that the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will be published on Wednesday alongside the Budget. [er...no, see update below!]
The NPPF will be the 52 page (or thereabouts) document replacing the thousands of pages of existing planning law, and there’s more about it on this blog here.
On 21 December 2011 the Communities and Local Government Select Committee released a detailed report on the draft NPPF, which you can read about in my January post What Shape Will Future Planning Policy Take?
Is the timing of the NPPF’s release an attempt to bury bad news and get it all over with in one giant anxiety ball of budget-induced controversy; or is it because planning is regarded as being only about the economy (after which it is now de rigueur to write “stupid”)?
Will there be any further consultation following its release (as recommended by CLG Committee), or will that be it?
Obviously I have no idea.
Anyway, given the reliability of twitter rumour, it’ll probably come out tomorrow now...
Just thought I’d add to the welter of pointless speculation clogging up the airwaves in the early part of this week.
Maybe just look at the nice Magnolia blossom instead!
UPDATE 21/3/12 1pm
Chancellor announces NPPF will be published next Tuesday (27 March)
So much for twitter gossip!
And here is my subsequent post written on the day the NPPF was published.
UPDATE 21/3/12 1pm
Chancellor announces NPPF will be published next Tuesday (27 March)
So much for twitter gossip!
And here is my subsequent post written on the day the NPPF was published.
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