Highbury Group on housing delivery response to CLG consultation on draft national planning policy framework

Abstract

- Consideration of whether specific development is or is not sustainable can only operate effectively within a plan-led system. - The NPPF needs to have a spatial dimension. It should set out the spatial implications of planning priorities set at a national level, as a basis for decision making about allocation of public sector resources and to serve as a basis for secure private investment. - The current draft should be expanded to include further core policy guidance currently included in planning policy statements, which are to be withdrawn. - The NPPF should make it explicit that the presumption is against development which does not meet sustainable development objectives as set out in the applicable plan.