Planning

Chapter 7's DIY Planning Handbook

This handbook is intended to support those wanting to make applications for low-impact rural businesses and homesteads. The handbook is available for £16, from: Chapter 7, Monkton Wyld Court, Charmouth, Bridport, Dorset DT6 6DQ. Cheques made out to Chapter 7. Here the introduction can be downloaded: Introduction to The Planning System (updated 2001)

Decision Notices for Existing Smallholdings, Environmental Projects, etc.

• Blackthorn Farm. Retention of an existing timber framed structure used for residential purposes for an agricultural workers dwelling, for a temporary period in the first instance, for 3 years. Application: 1/D/10/000673, November 2010.

• Lammas. This development of 9 low-impact smallholdings was permitted under a planning policy particular to Pembrokeshire: Policy 52. The decision notice here is that of the planning inspectorate after the Council failed to determine the application. Appeal Ref: APP/N6845/A/09/209672. August 2009.

• Landmatters Permaculture Project, Devon. Decision Notice from the Planning Inspectorate. Various appeal references, August 2007.

• Petter & Harris v. Secretary of State for the Environment. This is a significant ruling by the High Court. The justices ruled that the Council and the Planning Inspectorate were wrong in not granting planning permission because the applicant could not show he could generate at least the minimum wage from his holding. It was deemed sufficient that Mr Petter was simply self-sufficient. March 1999.

• The Sustainability Centre, Hampshire. East Hampshire District Council's decision to grant a 3-year permission for 3 residential yurts to provide worker accommodation. Council's ref: 21514/085. December 2009.

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Planning Policy: Example submissions to local and national consultations

• Comments submitted by members of the Small Farm Training Group to Wealdon District Council during their Core Strategy consultations April 2011

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Government Planning Policy

• Technical Advice Note 6 – Planning for Sustainable Rural Communities
  This is both a unique and new policy which creates a low-impact development provision across the whole of Wales.

• Planning Policy Statement 1 sets out the Government's overarching planning policies on the delivery of sustainable development through the planning system. This replaces Planning Policy Guidance 1: General Policies and Principles (PPG1), which was published in February 1997.

• This Planning Policy Statement Planning and Climate Change sets out how planning, in providing for the new homes, jobs and infrastructure needed by communities, should help shape places with lower carbon emissions and resilient to the climate change now accepted as inevitable.

• Planning Policy Statement 3 on Housing underpins the delivery of the Government's strategic housing policy objectives and our goal to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in a decent home, which they can afford in a community where they want to live.

• Planning Policy Statement 7 on Sustainable Development in Rural Areas
  Planning Policy Statement 7 (PPS7) sets out the Government's planning policies for rural areas, including country towns and villages and the wider, largely undeveloped countryside up to the fringes of larger urban areas.