Street Vote Development Orders in England: legal framework and procedure under LURA 2023/TCPA 1990, including referendums, conditions, CIL, EIA, biodiversity net gain, revocation and financial assistance

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Background

Chapter 4 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (LURA 2023), which obtained Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, adds sections 61QA to 61QM into the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990). These provisions establish a new route for planning consent called street vote development orders (SVDOs), enabling local residents to put forward development on their own street and then ballot on whether planning permission should be granted. SVDOs will confer planning permission for defined street areas in England. At present, and only for limited purposes, TCPA 1990, ss 61QA–61QM are commenced in so far as they confer powers to make regulations and for certain minor and consequential changes set out in LURA 2023, Sch 9. Otherwise, they have not yet taken effect; they will commence on a date to be appointed, with subsequent regulations supplying the detailed procedure. In December 2023, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government undertook a consultation on the detailed operation of SVDOs (the consultation), which will shape the content of the regulations. The consultation stated that the objective of SVDOs is to encourage residents to bring forward proposals for new development that they would back, and which would contribute to...

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