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New school site planning guidance published
New planning principles for councils to consider when determining planning
applications for school developments with local support have been published
ahead of the Royal Assent for the Academies Bill.
This initiative was designed to allow school promoters to be confident about
progressing their proposals and for new free schools to be set up quickly in
response to demand from local people. Education secretary Michael Gove has
already stated that the Government is committed to making it easier to secure
sites for new schools.
Local planning authorities and the Planning Inspectorate will be expected to
take the statement by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles into account as a
material consideration when determining all planning applications for school
development.
In determining planning applications, local authorities should:
- attach very significant weight to the desirability of establishing new
schools and to enabling local people to do so
- adopt a positive and constructive approach towards applications to create
new schools, and seek to mitigate any negative impacts of development through
the use of planning conditions or planning obligations, as appropriate
- only refuse planning permission for a new school if the adverse planning
impacts on the local area outweigh the desirability of establishing a school in
that area. Where a local authority refuses permission on this basis, the
Government will ask the Planning Inspectorate to deal swiftly with any appeal
that is lodged.
The Government will shortly be consulting on proposed changes to the Use
Classes Order to reduce unnecessary regulation and make it easier for buildings
currently used for other uses to be converted to schools.
View
the Hansard record Planning Portal 29.07.2010
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