Section 3 – Supporting a prosperous rural economy
- 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
NPPF 28
Sienkiewicz v South Somerset District Council [2013] EWHC 4090 (Admin), Lewis J
Stephen Whale appeared for the Defendant
“The Framework would support the grant of planning permission for even a large scale expansion of a business in a rural area assuming, of course, that any adverse effects of the proposed development were considered acceptable and the proposed development was otherwise acceptable in planning terms. That approach appears, for example, from paragraph 28 of the Framework which says planning policies should support economic growth in rural areas in order to create jobs and prosperity.” [28]
Sienkiewicz v South Somerset District Council [2015] EWHC 3704 (Admin), Ouseley J
Stephen Whale appeared for the Defendant
“The NPPF is positive, supportive, welcoming, not restricted to small scale expansion or business. It focuses attention on sustainability, and that was fully considered by the Council.” [46]
Dignity Funerals Limited v Breckland District Council [2017] EWHC 1492 (Admin), Holgate J
Christopher Lockhart-Mummery QC and Zack Simons appeared for the Defendant
“paragraph 28 of the NPPF distinctly encourages “a positive approach to sustainable new development” in “rural areas” (and does not require need to be shown)” [61]