COMMUNITY RIGHT TO BUILD - WITHOUT THE NEED FOR PLANNING PERMISSION
Grant Shapps sets out
vision to protect and preserve rural village life
Housing Minister
Grant Shapps has today (23 July 2010) set out his vision for protecting the
future of rural village life for generations to come, by giving local
communities the power to build the homes they need.
The Minister has outlined a new right that will allow
communities across England to come together and create new homes, shops,
businesses and facilities.
The new Community Right to Build will shift
power from Government to communities to allow local people to deliver the homes
and development that they really want, without being told that their own
expansion doesn't fit with their local council's plans and should not go ahead.
Under the proposals, which will be contained
in the Localism Bill, community organisations will have the freedom to give the
green light to new local developments without a specific application for
planning permission, as long as there is overwhelming community backing in a
local referendum.
Planning
Portal News 29 July 2010
“Housing minister Grant Shapps
has confirmed that ‘Community Right to build’ will be central to the Localism
Bill which the administration plans to publish later this year.
Under these proposals community organisations will have the freedom to give
the green light to new local developments without a specific application for
planning permission, as long as there is overwhelming community backing in a
local referendum”.