This Communities and Local Government
consultation closes on 19th March 2010.
It asks for responses from Local Planning Authorities,
community groups, statutory consultees, developers, applicants and
agents.
This document sets standards for Local Planning Authority
to adopt in the change from Development Control to Development Management.
There are 4 sections, including one (Part 3) which deals with
pre-application engagement and supports community involvement as well as the
involvement of other stakeholders.
The document does not imply any changes to community
involvement in planning that would compromise the current regime in Bristol and
is agreed in the Statement of Community Involvement and in the Advice and
Guidelines for community involvement on the Bristol City Council website, or in
the validation criteria adopted by Bristol City Council for major and super
major developments.
The NPN administrators will not therefore be making a
response to the consultation.
Part 4 deals with how applications should be determined under
emerging policies in the Local Development Framework and there is a definition
of Material Considerations under DE6 page 27 which may be of interest
“In principle...any consideration which relates to the use and
development of land is capable of being a planning consideration. Whether a
particular consideration falling within that broad class is material in any
given case will depend on the circumstances”
(Stringer v MHLG, 1971).
Material considerations must be genuine planning
considerations, i.e. they must be related to the development and use of land in
the public interest.
The considerations must also fairly and reasonably relate
to the application concerned
(R v Westminster CC ex-parte Monahan
1989).
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