Introduction
- The 2012 NPPF: A Digest of Decisions
- Introduction
- Achieving Sustainable Development
- Section 1 – Building a strong, competitive economy
- Section 2 – Ensuring the vitality of town centres
- Section 3 – Supporting a prosperous rural economy
- Section 4 – Promoting sustainable transport
- Section 5 – Supporting high quality communications infrastructure
- Section 6 – Delivering a wide choice of high quality homes
- Section 7 – Requiring good design
- Section 8 – Promoting healthy communities
- Section 9 – Protecting Green Belt land
- Section 10 – Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change
- Section 11 – Conserving and enhancing the natural environment
- Section 12 – Conserving and enhancing the historic environment
- Section 13 – Facilitating the sustainable use of minerals
- Plan-making
- Decision-taking
- Annex I: Implementation
1-5
Chase Milton Energy Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2014] EWHC 1213 (Admin), Timothy Straker QC
Dan Kolinsky appeared on behalf of the Secretary of State
“I am not at all convinced as to the merit of giving particular policies a label and then using that label as a means to argue that they inconsistent with other policies in the Framework. The Framework is intended to be just that, and one can refer in that instance to paragraph 1 of it.” [16]
NPPF 2
Cheshire East Borough Council [2015] EWHC 410 (Admin), Lang J
“Paragraph 2 of the NPPF re-states the statutory provisions, and explains that the NPPF is a material consideration in planning decision-taking. However, I doubt that the Minister intended the NPPF to be used to routinely bypass local policies protecting specific local features and landscapes, as that would undermine the statutory scheme. Indeed, the NPPF emphasises the value of local development plans since they reflect the needs and priorities of local people for their area…” [57]