First Homes (decision making in the medium term) https://khub.net/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=53683759&threadId=473106427 2026-03-14T02:16:04Z 2026-03-14T02:16:04Z richard white https://khub.net/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=53683759&messageId=473106426 2021-06-03T08:55:05Z 2021-06-01T16:10:39Z

<p>Whilst a lot of the PPG appears pretty well crafted it does seem to overlook the practical difficulty of the legal requirement to give primacy to the development plan in decision making.</p> <p> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/first-homes">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/first-homes</a></p> <p>As drafted the transitional arrangements for decision taking in para 20 only apply to soon-to-be-adopted plans NOT already-adopted-plans, about which the PPG appears silent. At face value para 20 can only be read as stating by omission that compliance with an already-adopted-plan is not a valid reason to disapply the policy, and therefore it should apply with immediate effect, but the decision maker still has a duty to consider what weight to give to this. While it is based on a WMS and therefore has as much weight as any national policy statement can have,  it can still only be considered a material consideration in the overall balance...</p> <p>I'm curious as to how LPAs are likely to react to the First Homes WMS and PPG in decision making. (Especially those of you with an up-to-date adopted plan.)</p> <p> </p>

richard white 2021-06-01T16:10:39Z