Resources

Town and Country Planning Association discuss the importance of planning and place-shaping to build stronger communities.

Our response to the consultation on reforming the compulsory purchase process and compensation rules.

Our response to a series of working papers on aspects of planning reform designed to inform further policy development in collaboration with the wider sector.

Our response on the proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system

This advice note helps understand the role of parish and town councils in the planning process, including how they are notified of planning applications and decisions.

Our response to the proposed changes to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.

Our response to the government's proposed approach to updating national planning policies related to brownfield land in the National Planning Policy Framework

Our response to the government’s plans is to provide a more transparent picture of controls on land through the creation of a freely accessible dataset.

Our response on street vote development orders will inform the content of regulations using new powers in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023.

Authors: Steve Besford-Foster, PlanSupport in association with Neil Kirkland, GoCollaborate Limited 

The advice note is on the power to fund works to property relating to affairs of the church or held for an ecclesiastical charity in England.