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Preface

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Vincent
AuthorWilliam Webster
Pages21-22

Preface

Writing a planning textbook was always going to be a daunting task. It is very probably the most intensively regulated area of the law, in which the law, procedure and policy bristle with impending changes. Keeping up to date has, however, been the priority and this book endeavours to achieve this by introducing fresh material in the various fields which it covers.

Whilst I have attempted to state the law as at 24 July 2018, I readily apologise if events (such as appeals or other changes in law or planning policy/guidance) have clashed with the publishing process, although in some cases I did manage to persuade the publishers (even after typesetting) to make a number of alterations to the text.1

I began work on this book towards the end of 2017 and delivered the manuscript to the publishers in early July 2018. In the same month the Government published revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) issued in 2012. Rather than delay publication of the book, the references made herein to the NPPF are to the 2012 version and not the revised version whose layout differs from the earlier version. The main NPPF revisions are, however, covered in Chapter 24, ‘Revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (July 2018)’, which reviews all the key changes introduced in the new version of the NPPF. It is hoped that this will help readers to understand what the material changes are, how they are intended to work in practice and where they can be found in the new NPPF, which can be downloaded online.

This book covers a wide range of well-known planning topics within a single volume. I sincerely hope that the book’s layout provides a clear and intelligible narrative, with ample footnotes for readers looking for summaries of the more recent cases (and I have included as many as I can) and the various contemporary


1 For those looking for a truly up-to-date analysis of state of the law in this field at the date of publication of this work, I would recommend Christopher Young QC’s paper given at the 46th Joint Annual Planning Law Conference entitled, ‘Case Law Update in a Post “Suffolk” World’, which the Chair rightly regarded as an essential reference document for...

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