Policy
Standard of conservation areas in Suffolk under threat from proposed legislation
In our January column in the East Anglian Daily Times, SPS Director Fiona Cairns warns of the unintended consequences...
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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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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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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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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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July 2020 Campaign bulletin
Our monthly round up of SPS work and involvements is available now.
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Housing Design Audit report available
This week saw the publication of a report, A Housing Design Audit for England, produced by CPRE in partnership...
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East Suffolk historic environment supplementary planning document
SPS has responded to a scoping consultation to replace existing heritage documents from across the Suffolk Coastal and Waveney...
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Proposed reform to permitted development rights to support deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage Published 27 August 2019
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport SPS Consultation response 23...
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SPS response to Babergh Mid Suffolk Local Plan
Babergh Mid Suffolk Joint Local Plan Preferred Options (Regulation 18), Public Consultation, September 2019 Having reviewed the draft local...
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