This essential guide to planning law is designed to equip lawyers and officers new to planning law with a basic level of knowledge in a range of areas, with a particular focus on issues relevant to the local authority context. The course includes an overview of the planning system in England and the role of planning law within that system, including the most recent reforms. It explains key terms such as “development” and “development plan”. It reviews the planning application process in detail and includes specific sessions on Section 106 agreements and enforcement. The course:
Provides a comprehensive overview of the whole system of planning law
Covers the most recent reforms to the planning system
Shows how law and policy work together in that system
Identifies the main problem areas for practitioners
Looks at some of the ways those problems have been overcome
Identifies any problems which are still outstanding
Reviews the main changes introduced by the Localism Act, Growth and Infrastructure Act and recent case law
The day will cover:
The historical context of the planning system
Development and Development plans
The law and procedure of determining planning applications
Section 106 obligations
The enforcement of planning control
The course is aimed primarily at lawyers in local government who are new to planning but would also be useful for local authority members, committee clerks dealing with planning issues and lawyers working in the public sector generally.
Strategic Planning Advisor, Pinsent Masons LLP
Sue's experience of planning law began when she was working as a trainee legal executive with Broxbourne Borough Council in 1984 and most of her professional practice since has been in this area. She has worked in both the public and private sector as well as in academia and her experience includes project management of the Grand Arcade retail regeneration of Cambridge city centre, nine years as a professional support lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills and a year as assistant monitoring officer at Essex County Council. She lectures at Brighton University and has a doctorate on the meaning and interpretation of sustainable development in the Planning Framework.
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