Key Aims
- A new body, the Infrastructure Planning Commission would make the decisions
- These decisions would be based on new national policy statements
- Hearings and the decision-making process would be timetabled
- The new regime would be used for major energy projects
- The Secretary of State would not be able to have the final say on major infrastructure decisions
- A new Community Infrastructure Levy on developments would finance infrastructure (money would be raised from developers to pay for the facilities needed as a consequence of new developments, such as schools, hospitals and sewage plants).
- Planning appeals in relation to minor developments would be heard by a panel of local councillors and not by a planning inspector.
Read more about this topic: Planning Act 2008
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