Statement by CDF Chair Lord Lansley on the NPPF and Planning Policy Reform Announcement
Housing Minister Angela Rayner just announced proposed reforms to the NPPF and other changes to the planning system. You can read the announcement here.
CDF Chair Andrew Lansley said of the announcement:
"The development community in Cambridgeshire will welcome the speed and priority which the new Government attaches to promoting house building. We welcome the reversal of the damaging text in the NPPF which treated the Standard Method as a “advisory starting-point”. We in Cambridgeshire are consistently planning to build more homes than the Standard Method and we should continue to relate our local housing need to the evidence of employment growth and lack of affordability for those wanting to buy or rent in our region.
Cambridgeshire should continue to be a pathfinder region for the government’s plans for strategic planning, local plan-making using the new system and for tackling water scarcity. We have already been very clear over the last two decades about the purposes of the Green Belt around Cambridge and the new rules should bring national policy closer to our practice locally.
The government will need to press on rapidly with consulting on national development management policies, on reform of developer contributions and on setting a new affordable housing programme budget."
Be sure to read the draft text for the new NPPF and respond to the consultation via the links below. 👇
