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Neil Tague Preston, South Ribble and Chorley’s councils are closer to adopting a combined Local Plan, as officers progress towards a preferred options consultation this summer. A report that will go before the Central Lancashire Strategic Planning Joint Advisory Committee on 25 January outlines progress since the completion of a stage one issues and options consultation, which ran from November 2019 to February 2020. A total of 1,616 responses were recorded for the issues and options consultation, with 912 people signing into various drop-in sessions. The intention of the local authorities ...

Councils urged to ensure Local Plans are up to date Councils urged to update their Local Plans to ensure the country gets on with building the homes it needs and in the right places. From: 19 January 2021 Minister of State for Housing, Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP has urged councils to update their Local Plans to ensure the country gets on with building the homes it needs and in the right places. The Planning for the future white paper consultation published last year set out proposals to deliver a significantly simpler, faster and more predictable planning system. Councils should consid...

my constituency. Many in our community will remember the traumatic experience of 2007, when hundreds of homes and many businesses flooded after the River Ock burst its banks. Luckily, only a handful of properties in our area were flooded this time. But we have to be prepared. Since I was elected in 2017, I’ve been lobbying the Government to make a flood prevention scheme in Abingdon happen, and for improvements to be made to the Oxford scheme. Sadly, planning ahead and assuaging the fears of residents in our area doesn’t seem to be the priority for this Government. When I held a...

By: Sherell Jeffrey Text Size: Kota Kinabalu: The State Local Government and Housing Ministry aims to ensure development plans are processed in a short period by allowing local authorities to consider and formulate decisions related to development planning approval.  ADVERTISEMENT  Its Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic) said they are authorised to consider and formulate decisions to approve development plan application under Section 15 (2) of the Town and Country Planning Ordinance (Sabah Cap. 141) provided the plan has gone through the process of Section 7 of the Ordinance.  “Acco...

The economic crisis we are facing is unlike any we have seen in modern times. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has predicted that by the end of 2021 the UK economy will be six per cent smaller than before the Covid health crisis. Despite this dark economic situation in which we find ourselves, there is a ray of light and that light comes from businesses which seek to drive forward the economy through investment and expansion. There is a significant number of enquiries from employers who are looking to be located close to Oxford and Cherwell District. T...