GUEST ARTICLE: Is important planning policy being created indirectly?
The planning policy lacuna is being filled – just not by planning policy alone; the words of Tim Partridge, Technical Director (Planning) at tor&co, who has penned the following guest article.
"A few years ago, I wrote about what I described as the planning policy lacuna. The phrase came from an appeal decision in Stockport, but it captured a wider feeling across the profession. National policy set broad objectives while leaving important questions unanswered. That gap has not disappeared entirely. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to argue that it still exists," he writes...
