They say that good local planning policy should have the support and consent of local people.
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The local planning referendum in the Eden Valley was the first to be held in England.
The report calls for a state-wide building code that would supersede local planning laws.
The company said it had suspended its plans due to "uncertainty about the local planning regime".
Both are being reformed, with extra cash for expensive technologies and powers to overrule local planning objections.
Another fracas erupted over the design of Oriental Plaza, whose size and height infringed local planning rules.
Local planning authorities would also be required to consult the agency when considering planning applications involving energy generation.
Setting up a factory on farmland required wrangling permissions from local planning authorities.
But the consultation, which took the form of letters to local planning chiefs, concluded that it would be a "disproportionate over-reaction".
The 4, 000 residents eligible to vote in the first local planning referendum live in the most sparsely populated area of England.
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Listed planning consent ran out yesterday, so the owners cannot do anything to it without the approval of the local planning authority.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
London Associated Management, the managers of the centre, said it was in discussions with the local planning authority about plans to invest.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 16-foot-high gate on his property.
Before you proceed, however, you should check with your local planning department.
According to representatives from energy company Scottish Power, local planning authorities have been unable to progress wind farm planning applications in a reasonable timescale.
The order provides for compensation to be payable where planning permission granted by a local planning authority is subsequently revoked or modified or withdrawn.
The defence secretary said local planning constraints meant it was unlikely to be used for housing, but could return to agricultural or non-developed use.
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Mr Heaton-Harris' Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) Bill would give local planning authorities the power to specify the minimum distance between turbines and homes.
The experience of Turin's Lingotto, a complex that suffers from inadequate public transport, underlines how local planning rules can be another barrier to success in regeneration schemes.
England's first local planning referendum is being held in Cumbria.
Operators struggled to build new masts, stymied by local planning-rules.
These small turbines are frequently rejected by local planning.
Mr McGeoch, said that in order for Scotland to achieve its renewable energy targets by 2020, "there will have to be a quantum shift" in the local planning process as it stood.
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That is partly the fault of higher petrol prices but may also perversely reflect the efforts of local planning bodies to protect independent stores in town centres by blocking new supermarket developments outside them.
We have already acknowledged that Katrina revealed problems in national response capabilities, stretching back more than a decade, and demonstrated the need for more comprehensive federal, state, and local planning for catastrophic events.
The prosecutions were pursued privately by the council under Section 178 of the Town and Country Planning Act in which it as an "offence to wilfully obstruct" a local planning authority taking enforcement action.
"If there is one principle of planning law more firmly settled than any other, it is that matters of planning judgment are within the exclusive province of the local planning authority or the Secretary of State, " the judge added.
"At what earlier would have been breakfasts with 300 to 400 people, now 1, 200 people are showing up, " said David Howard, chief executive of Event Group, a local planning agency, which is putting on 17 breakfasts during this year's Stampede.
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