Planning policy statements (PPS) were UK government statements of national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework. In recent years they only applied to England. However, they still exist within the Northern Irish System.
History
They had gradually been replacing the old style Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG). They were not legally binding, but the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 required that they were considered by authorities preparing development plans, and may be treated as material considerations in the determination of planning applications.
In December 2010 the Department for Communities and Local Government announced that all PPSs would be replaced by a single document, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). A consultation draft of this new document was published on 25 July 2011. The final version of this document was published on 27 March 2012. It became a material consideration in planning matters on publication. It replaced all PPSs and all remaining PPGs, plus a number of letters to chief planning officers.
List of PPSs
PPS covered the following matters:
- Planning Policy Statement 1: Delivering Sustainable Development1
- Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing2
- Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth3
- Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment4
- Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centresa5
- Planning Policy Statement 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas6
- Planning Policy Statement 9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation7
- Planning Policy Statement 10: Planning for Sustainable Waste Management8
- Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional Spatial Strategies9b
- Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Development Frameworks10
- Planning Policy Statement 22: Renewable Energy11
- Planning Policy Statement 23: Planning and Pollution Control12
- Planning Policy Statement 25: Development and Flood Risk13
See also
See also
- Town and country planning in the United Kingdom
- The Merton Rule (the result of Planning Policy Statement 22)
- Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
Notes
Notes
- Replaced by PPS 4.
- The coalition government announced in 2010 that Regional Spatial Strategies were to be abolished and, despite a court finding that the Secretary of State had acted unlawfully by telling local planning authorities to take that into account prior to abolition, the Policy Statement was removed from the DCLG website before the law was changed.