Title page
Contents
Summary 4
1. Background to planning reforms 6
1.1. Government target: 300,000 homes per year 6
1.2. Planning for the Future (August 2020) 7
1.3. Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 8
2. A new category of planning policies: National Development Management Policies (NDMPs) 9
2.1. How planning applications are decided 9
2.2. National Development Management Policies 10
2.3. Views on National Development Management Policies 12
3. Proposed reforms to local plan-making 15
3.1. Requirement to prepare a local plan 15
3.2. Current plan-making process 16
3.3. A new plan-making process within 30 months 18
3.4. Transitional arrangements 22
3.5. Views on proposed reforms to local plan-making 23
4. Abolishing the 'duty to cooperate' 26
4.1. The duty to cooperate in local plan-making 26
4.2. Abolishing the duty to cooperate 27
4.3. Views on the duty to cooperate 28
5. Further changes to local plan-making 30
5.1. Supplementary plans 30
5.2. Design codes 32