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Portsmouth City Council is inviting feedback on its draft local plan by 31st October 2021. The Council has opened an innovative virtual consultation room which can be accessed via www.portsmouth.gov.uk/localplan.  The plan has been split into topics to make it easier for people to view the areas they are interested in and provide feedback as […]

New Forest National Park Authority have published a draft design guide – seeking comments from 10th September to 5pm on 22 October 2021. When adopted, it will constitute Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPD) and be a material planning consideration on relevant planning applications. It supplements the policies in the New Forest National Park Local Plan (adopted […]

Here at Chapman Lily, we are regularly instructed on large scale developments in National Parks and AONBs and are therefore regularly confronted with the somewhat daunting requirement on decision makers (from the NPPF) to automatically refuse such development unless exceptional circumstances and public interest suggest otherwise. Chapman Lily are currently instructed on such a development, […]

Despite only adopting the New Forest Local Plan in July 2020, the Council has announced it is inviting landowners to promote their land for potential future development under a fresh ‘call for sites’. The process will end on 24th September 2021. Commenting on this announcement, Steve Tapscott, associate director at Chapman Lily, said that ‘this […]

Chapman Lily Planning have welcomed Steven Bainbridge to the team as an Associate Director. Steven in a chartered member of the RTPI and a two-time winner of the RTPI East of England Regional Planning Achievement Award. Steven has 17 years’ experience in planning, having started in the public sector in planning enforcement. The vast majority […]