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Lexis+ Planning helps you to understand planning requirements, procedures, policy, appeals and enforcement, for developments ranging from small-scale residential extensions to nationally significant infrastructure projects. Clear, concise practice notes have direct links to relevant cases, legislation, guidance and commentary and our daily news feeds and weekly highlights keep you informed of new cases, legislation, and consultations.
Get, change, implement planning permission
We cover all key aspects of the planning application process from the procedure, viability considerations, to decision-making and material considerations, to the duty to give reasons for planning decisions.
Planning issues in property
A series of Practice Notes and Checklists outlining the planning issues for a planning title in a property transaction. How information鈥檚 revealed, what to report on, and the significance of the findings for the buyer.
Compulsory purchase
Compulsory purchase is governed by complex legislation, case law and guidance. We provide the legal requirements and good practice to help customers navigate the procedure, scope of CPOs and opportunities for challenge.
Legislation, guidance and commentary
Planning requirements, procedures, policy, appeals and enforcement. We cover developments ranging from small-scale residential extensions to nationally significant infrastructure projects.
Topics We Cover
Latest Planning News
The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on draft amendments to the Building Regulations to ensure electric vehicle charging points are...
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has granted聽development聽consent for the Cottam Solar Project. This is a Nationally Significant...
Following the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report on 4 September 2024, several built environment industry bodies have released...
Natural England (NE) has published guidance on how to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation...
The聽Welsh聽Government聽has聽published the outcome of two consultations聽in relation to the聽Infrastructure聽(Wales)聽Bill. The first consultation was in...
Latest Planning Practice Notes
Fire safety developments following the Grenfell Tower fireThis Practice Note sets out key developments in relation to fire safety following the...
Climate change litigationOver the last decades, climate change has become an issue of ever-growing importance. With evolving scientific understanding...
The Paris Agreement 2015鈥攕napshotTitleParis Summit (COP21/CMP11)LocationParis, FranceDate30 November鈥12 December 2015SubjectClimate change,...
Species ProtectionBackgroundThere are four main categories of protection for species:鈥abitat conservation, by designating key sites鈥rotection for...
Environmental law issues for local authoritiesEnvironmental law is the body of law that seeks to protect the environment. It impacts a local authority...
Latest Planning Precedents
Highway projection licenceDATE [date]Parties1[name of Authority] of [address] ( Authority)2[name of Licensee] [of OR incorporated in England and...
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000鈥攑rovision for disclosure by a local authority...
Buyer鈥檚 CIL liability/Planning Liability termination clause1DefinitionsBiodiversity Gain鈥he biodiversity gain objective described in Schedule 7A of...
Precedent notices under the previous Electronic Communications Code [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Precedent is drafted in the context of the...
Precedent s 106 unilateral undertakingUnilateral Undertakingunder section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990relating to development at...
Latest Planning Q&As
Featured Planning content
Planning conditions鈥攖he six tests
Planning conditions鈥攖he six testsPowers to impose planning conditionsThe general powers for local planning authorities (LPAs) to impose conditions on...
Local planning authority as applicant for planning permission to itself
Local planning authority as applicant for planning permission to itselfLocal authorities are not immune from having to obtain planning permission to...
Section 215 notice requiring maintenance of land
Section 215 notice requiring maintenance of landIntroductionThe purpose of section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) is to...
Is there a limitation period for water authorities to require a build over agreement to be entered into (for example, if a building had been in existence for 12 years without a relevant build over agreement in place)? Are there any specific powers to require a build over agreement to be entered into retrospectively (if the authority owned the sewer prior to the 2011 transfer)?
Agricultural buildings and land: permitted development rights
Agricultural buildings and land: permitted development rightsPursuant to section 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990), planning...
Is it possible to amend the red line boundary of a planning permission through an application made under section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, in circumstances where the change is minor, and where the size/boundary of the site is not stated in the description of the development?
Determining planning applications鈥攑rocedure
Determining planning applications鈥攑rocedureLegislation and guidanceThe statutory requirements relating to the determination of planning applications...
Dangerous buildings and structures
Dangerous buildings and structuresPowers of the local authorityThe local authority has powers to deal with dangerous buildings under a number of...
Failure to comply with planning enforcement鈥攃riminal liability and direct action
Failure to comply with planning enforcement鈥攃riminal liability and direct actionUnder the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990), a breach of...
Defining the planning unit
Defining the planning unitWhy is it important to establish the planning unit?Pursuant to聽section 57聽of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA...
Are there any restrictions on amending the red line on a planning application before it is determined?
Implementing a CPO鈥攏otice to treat and General Vesting Declaration
Implementing a CPO鈥攏otice to treat and General Vesting DeclarationContextThe confirmation of a compulsory purchase order (CPO) does not vest title in...
Permitted development in Wales
Permitted development in WalesPlanning permission is required for the development of land. 'Development', which is defined in the Town and Country...
The Crichel Down Rules
The Crichel Down RulesThe Crichel Down Rules (the Rules) require that in certain circumstances, surplus government land that was acquired by, or under...
Local Development Orders
Local Development OrdersWhat is a Local Development Order (LDO)?An LDO is a local development order, made at local authority level by a local planning...
Offshore wind鈥攑ermits and permissions
Offshore wind鈥攑ermits and permissionsLegislative and policy context for offshore wind development in the UKUnder EU Directive 2009/28/EC (the EU...
Appropriation of land for planning purposes
Appropriation of land for planning purposesLocal authorities who have acquired land for a statutory purpose must hold that land for that purpose. They...
Planning inquiries
Planning inquiriesThere is a right of appeal against most local planning authority (LPA) decisions on planning applications and related applications....
Associated legal terms
Article 4 Direction
A direction made by a local planning authority to withdraw permitted development rights that would otherwise apply by virtue of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015, SI 2015/596 (in England) and the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, SI 1995/418 (in Wales).
Profit on Cost
The profit of the scheme expressed as a percentage of cost.
Section 106 agreement
Agreements made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 106 between developers and local planning authorities (LPAs) in respect of land, that regulate development or require money to be paid to the LPA to mitigate the impacts of development. They bind the land and are enforceable against successors.
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