On the 30th April the Government updated the legislation regarding Class Q permitted development rights (the conversion of barns and agricultural building to residential use) in the GDPO.
Prior to this, the legislation said that you could convert one agricultural unit to five small dwellings...
Today marks the start of a 3 week public engagement exercise in Bolney for Glebelands.
In this case, the landowners did not want to relinquish control to a large housebuilder and opted to progress the site themselves, with an aspiration to positively add to the village housing stock and build...
Tandridge District Council are running a call for sites whereby residents, businesses, organisation and other stakeholders can submit sites that they would like to be allocated in the emerging Local plan 2023. The Council are specifically look at sites which are brownfield, land for Gypsy and...
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council are preparing an updated Local Plan that will be a framework to guide future development and planning decisions in the borough up to 2040. It will be an update on the existing Local Plan to ensure that it remains fit for purpose, delivers local priorities...
Babergh and Mid Suffolk are in the process of preparing a Join Local Plan Part 2, which will support the recently adopted Joint Local Plan Part 1 2018-2037. The Council have indicated that the Join Local Plan Part 2 will likely include a settlement hierarchy, spatial distribution, land allocations...
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