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• Contributing to sustainable communities: A new approach to planning obligations

Planning, building and the environment

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Summary

This consultation presents the Government's proposals for reforming and improving planning obligations (also known as section 106 agreements). The objective is to provide greater transparency and certainty for all stakeholders and help enable developers and local planning authorities to avoid the delays that sometimes occur under the current system. But the proposals also recognise that the ability to use negotiation to tailor contributions to the circumstances of an individual site is important. Flexibility is often essential to securing agreement on planning obligations.

It is proposed to reform planning obligations policy to improve negotiated planning obligations, and to legislate to enable the Government to establish a new optional planning charge, as an alternative to negotiated planning obligations.

Note: The above publication was issued by our former department, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). ODPM became Communities and Local Government (DCLG) on 5 May 2006 - all references in the text to ODPM now refer to Communities and Local Government.

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• A New Approach To Planning Obligations: Statement on the reform proposals
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