Planning policy replaced by the NPPF

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), published in March 2012 set out the Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied. Annex 3 includes a list of planning policy statements, guidance and other documents replaced by the NPPF and so no longer in force.

1. Planning Policy Statement: Delivering Sustainable Development
2. Planning Policy Statement: Planning and Climate Change – Supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1
3. Planning Policy Guidance 2: Green Belts
4. Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing
5. Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth
6. Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment
7. Planning Policy Statement 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas
8. Planning Policy Guidance 8: Telecommunications
9. Planning Policy Statement 9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation
10. Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning
11. Planning Policy Guidance 13: Transport
12. Planning Policy Guidance 14: Development on Unstable Land
13. Planning Policy Guidance 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
14. Planning Policy Guidance 18: Enforcing Planning Control
15. Planning Policy Guidance 19: Outdoor Advertisement Control
16. Planning Policy Guidance 20: Coastal Planning
17. Planning Policy Statement 22: Renewable Energy
18. Planning Policy Statement 23: Planning and Pollution Control
19. Planning Policy Guidance 24: Planning and Noise
20. Planning Policy Statement 25: Development and Flood Risk
21. Planning Policy Statement 25 Supplement: Development and Coastal Change
22. Minerals Policy Statement 1: Planning and Minerals
23. Minerals Policy Statement 2: Controlling and Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Minerals Extraction In England.
24. Minerals Planning Guidance 2: Applications, permissions and conditions
25. Minerals Planning Guidance 3: Coal Mining and Colliery Spoil Disposal
26. Minerals Planning Guidance 5: Stability in surface mineral workings and tips
27. Minerals Planning Guidance 7: Reclamation of minerals workings
28. Minerals Planning Guidance 10: Provision of raw material for the cement industry
29. Minerals Planning Guidance 13: Guidance for peat provision in England
30. Minerals Planning Guidance 15: Provision of silica sand in England
31. Circular 05/2005: Planning Obligations
32. Government Office London Circular 1/2008: Strategic Planning in London
33. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003
34. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Planning Obligations and Planning Registers
35. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Model Planning Conditions for development on land affected by contamination
36. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Planning for Housing and Economic Recovery
37. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Development and Flood Risk – Update to the Practice Guide to Planning Policy Statement 25
38. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Implementation of Planning Policy Statement (PPS25) – Development and Flood Risk
39. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: The Planning Bill – delivering well designed homes and high quality places
40. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Planning and Climate Change – Update
41. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: New powers for local authorities to stop ‘garden- grabbing’
42. Letter to Chief Planning Officer: Area Based Grant: Climate Change New Burdens
43. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: The Localism Bill
44. Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Planning policy on residential parking standards, parking charges, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure

NB In 2012, the government also commissioned the Taylor Report, a further review of the remaining planning policy guidance.

See also The Penfold Review, “Review of non-planning consents”, published on July 18th 2010.

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[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki.

• National Planning Policy Framework.
• Penfold Review.
• Planning permission.
• Taylor Report.

[edit] External references

• National Planning Policy Framework.