The NPPF represents another stage in the significant steps the Coalition Government has sought to implement wide ranging changes to the Planning system in England and Wales.  The formal publication of the NPPF will be preceded by the assent into law of the Localism Bill.  This will implement the changes to law through amendments to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, alongside other measures being used to implement the Government’s Big Society agenda and a return of power to local communities. 

The NPPF’s role in this is to outline how such community power and control of the planning system will be embedded within policy, and how it should be translated within individual authorities and communities.  In that sense the NPPF sets out the following key principles:-

  • Planning at a local level should ensure that the strategic requirements of the local plan are delivered;
  • Local communities will see opportunities to to benefit from development in their area which is over and above that set out in the local plan;
  • National and local requirements on developers will ensure that the communities in which development takes place will directly benefit as a result.

Case Study
Rossington, Doncaster