Potential policy vacuum as a result of changing national and regional plann

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Former Member, modified 13 Years ago.

Potential policy vacuum as a result of changing national and regional plann

When we went through the process of saving Local Plan policies, one of the reasons for not saving a policy was that it was covered by National or regional policy. With the potential changes to National policies and the loss of Regional planning policy there is likely to be a policy vacuum where we have deleted policies to be reliant on existing policies at a higher level that are also subsequently lost. Has anyone else encountered this? Is anyone aware of how this gap can be plugged?

Gerard Woods, modified 13 Years ago.

Re: Potential policy vacuum as a result of changing national and regional p

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In St.Helens we have identified some potential gaps in minerals, waste and renewable energy policy created by the revocation of RSS as UDP policies were not saved because at the time the RSS covered them. We are looking at this in more detail to consider what the implications are and whether national policy adequately covers the issues. If there is a serious gap, the only option we can see at this stage is to rapdly develop, consult on and adopt interim planing policy.

Former Member, modified 13 Years ago.

Re: Potential policy vacuum as a result of changing national and regional p

There is a possibility that RSS policies can be adopted as a SPD on the back of national policies.