Planning Policy in Yorkshire

Latest Consultations

The Taylor Review of planning practice guidance

The Yorkshire Region compiled a response to help inform the RTPI’s response to the Government’s consultation on the recommendations of the Taylor Review of planning practice guidance which reported at the end of December.

The RTPI has now submitted its response.

The RTPI identified the key issues as:

1. We strongly maintain that a distinction needs to be made between Government planning guidance (which should be followed) on the one hand, and what is best practice (which it might be good to follow) on the other.

2. Government planning guidance is needed in a limited number of areas to avoid reinventing the wheel on matters of methodology at each local plan examination and in each planning decision.

3. The current priorities for Government Planning Guidance should be:

• Strategic Housing Market Assessment
• Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
• Duty to Cooperate
• Viability of plans and of sites
• Flooding

as these are the issues which are currently most closely affecting the ability of the planning system to deliver the homes and jobs the country needs in the right places.

Read the RTPI's full submitted response (pdf).

Reports

IPPR North on the Northern Economy

This event, held in Leeds on 28 January 2013, was addressed by Rachel Reeves, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. RTPI Yorkshire Honorary Secretary, Bob Wolfe, attended the event. Download the report (pdf)