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Development Frameworks

Steven Abbott Associates represents client’s interests throughout the development plan/local development framework process, including:

  • Regional Spatial Strategies
  • Local Development Frameworks Documents
  • Supplementary Planning Documents
We will engage in the process on behalf of clients to influence the emerging planning policy framework. Where necessary this will involve the presentation of evidence at examinations in public.

Our database of local authority planning documents is regularly updated via contact with each authority.

We also keep our clients abreast of other significant changes in national planning policy and legislation.

 
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Local Development Framework

Section 38 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires that a planning application should be determined in accordance with the development plan for the area concerned, unless material considerations indicate otherwise. It is therefore vitally important that landowners, developers and others with an interest in the development of land engage in the preparation of development plan documents. This is even more important as English authorities prepare their new style local development documents in accordance with the 2004 Act. 

Although the new local development framework system is still in its early stages, Steven Abbott Associates has already engaged with the system in a number of locations and will continue to do so as further, more substantive documents emerge.
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