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Consultation on accelerating planning in England: 10‑week major commercial decisions with fee refunds, limits on extensions of time, simplified appeals, and implementing TCPA 1990 section 73B with revised fees

Published on: 07 March 2024

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What is the background to the consultation?

In the Autumn Budget 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, set out a number of measures, including plans to boost the capacity of the planning system so it can better serve businesses, such as rolling out premium planning services across England with guaranteed quicker decision dates for major schemes and fee refunds where deadlines are missed. In the Spring Budget 2024, presented on 6 March 2024, the government confirmed it would consult on this accelerated service. Later the same day, it released a consultation titled ‘An accelerated planning system’. Open until 1 May 2024, the consultation invites views on proposals to:

  • introduce a new accelerated planning service for major commercial applications, providing a decision within ten weeks, with fees refunded if that timeframe is not achieved
  • revise the use of extensions of time, ending them for householder applications and allowing only a single extension for other developments, linked to a proposed new performance measure for local planning authorities (LPAs) on the speed of decisions against statutory deadlines
  • broaden the current simplified written representations appeals route for householder and...

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