2020
Local Plan Consultations
We’ve responded to two local plan consultation which close in the week before Christmas: The West Suffolk Local Plan...
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Sizewell C – stage 5 consultation
Less than a week after the deadline for registering as an interested party in the upcoming public examination, EDF...
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We’re all for renewable energy but we will challenge unsightly schemes
we hope that developers will respond to the concerns of local communities and scale back their proposals and ensure...
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East Anglia 1N and East Anglia 2 off-shore windfarms
SPS’s written representation has been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate SPS has set out its concerns regarding the impact...
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Planning Reform White Paper – SPS writes to Suffolk MPs
Dear Member of Parliament, I write as Chairman of the Suffolk Preservation Society (SPS) – as you know we...
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Enough brownfield land for 1.3 million new homes
CPRE’s ‘The State of Brownfield report 2020‘ reveals · Capacity for 1.3 million homes on brownfield registers revealed representing...
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Should we trust an algorithm to set where new housing should be built?
with professional planners, campaign groups such as the society and the very communities expected to absorb the numbers in...
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Sizewell C Inquiry
On 30 September SPS submitted our relevant representation to the Inspector to register as an interested party and summarise...
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Planning Reform: The White Paper
The government is consulting on the Planning White Paper, entitled Planning for the Future. Its stated aim is ‘to...
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Society has been making a positive impact – EADT August column
for us it’s a cause for quiet celebration when we can demonstrate incidences where planners and/or councillors have listened...
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Radical Planning Reforms ahead?
Radical reform unlike anything we have seen since the Second World War. Boris Johnson In August the Planning Reform...
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How lockdown is helping us to enjoy Suffolk’s secret heritage
Fiona Cairn’s looks at how a benefit of lockdown is how Suffolk’s lesser known local heritage has been revealed...
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