Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice

The most comprehensive source of information and guidance on planning law and policy, the Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice:

• Includes all relevant legislation including EC legislation as well as domestic statutes and statutory instruments
• Reproduces all the relevant policy documents for England and Wales, giving you access to up-to-date circulars, PPGs and PPSs, MPGs and MPSs, RPGs, and RSSs and TANs
• Contains clear and in-depth annotations which explain each statement of the law and comment on all appropriate judicial decisions, so that the law is put into, context, technicalities are understood fully, and problems can be identified
• Contains expanded expert commentary on the most important Government policy documents
• Notes derivations of and amendments to legislation
• Updated by monthly bulletins and quarterly looseleaf releases to keep you ahead of the changes

Coverage in 2012 releases and monthly bulletins will include:

• The New Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations applying to England, which consolidate existing Regulations and make several changes to the present law
• The progress of the draft National Policy Framework
• The Localism Act will provide for abolition of regional strategies; abolition of the Infrastructure Planning Commission; amendment of the provisions concerning Community Infrastructure Levy; provision for new "neighbourhood plans" to be approved after a 50% vote is achieved in a referendum; provision for "neighbourhood development orders" allowing communities to approve development without requiring normal planning consent
• Developments relating to renewable energy, including wind turbines, wave and tidal power
• Appeal procedures
• Gypsy sites: review of government policy
• Housing: the future for housing and conflict with the Green Belt and undesignated countryside

Case law on issues such as costs in enforcement notice appeals, demolition of old buildings in a conservation area, application of the Whitley principle, and jurisdiction of Inspector in claim that an enforcement notice is a nullity

4 updating releases published per annum.