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Planning, building and the environment
Terms of Reference
To examine the current requirements of the regulatory regimes for minor developments by householders (house extensions, fencing, ancillary buildings, tree felling and pruning, etc), and make recommendations on:
- whether the extent of existing control systems is proportionate to the need to safeguard the public interest and consistent with the Government's deregulatory agenda;
- whether existing control systems are best designed to meet the requirements of all interested parties;
- whether it is practicable to redefine the boundaries of control to remove the need for specific consents to be granted in order to reduce the regulatory and resource burden they entail;
- where it is recommended that specific consents should remain, consider the scope for:
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- combining consent regimes (such as planning consent, conservation area consent and building regulation approval) and how this might best be implemented;
- changing processes and procedures with a particular view to enabling Local Authorities to make better use of their resources;
- mediation between neighbours;
- making the consent regimes easier to use by applicants and parties affected by development;
- making greater use of the private sector in processing applications and the extent to which this would free up public sector resources;
- transferring functions to more local bodies, in the spirit of new localism.
- how to present proposals for reform and the measures which could be taken to address any concerns (eg over neighbour extensions).
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