Planning Update: SEA change

Rachael Herbert examines recent decisions concerning the role that strategic environmental assessments play in the plan-making process, and the consideration of reasonable alternatives ‘An environmental assessment is to be carried out for all plans and programmes listed in Art 5 of the SEA Regulations.’ There has been a spate of recent cases concerning the requirement …
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Planning Update: Going underground

Rachael Herbert unravels some of the mystery surrounding planning considerations for basement developments ‘The “enlarged part of the dwelling house” referred only to the development that is being added by way of permitted development rights, not all of the storeys in the dwelling house post-completion of the new (basement) development.’ There are few areas of …
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