Planning Applications and Appeals

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the planning system. It is a `user friendly' handbook for use by non professionals, and is also a quick and helpful resource book for law students and professionals involved in the planning system. It explains how the main elements of the planning system work, and gives sound practical advice to anyone seeking to use the system to obtain planning permission, voice objections to planning proposals, appear at a public inquiry, raise a variety ofconservation issues involving listed buildings or conservation areas, and, in some cases, to obtain compensation for planning decisions. As more and more people are affected by planning and development of some kind - whether the neighbour's loftextension or the Department of Transport's motorway proposals - there has been a corresponding increase in public involvement in the operation of the planning system to achieve publicly acceptable results. Planning Applications and Appeals should enableanyone to deal effectively with a range of planning issues, and contains useful guidance as to sources of further advice and assistance. Practical Comprehensive Useful advice for laypeople and practitioners