19 Dec 2023

On 19 December the Government published their updated response to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning policy consultation. This was published alongside an updated National Planning Policy Framework. This follows the interim update to the National Planning Policy Framework on 5 September 2023, which reflected specific changes relating to onshore wind projects.

Consultation

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities (DLUHC) published, in December 2022, a consultation to seek views on how they might revise national planning policy to support the Government's wider objectives. AREF's response to the consultation was submitted on 2 March 2023.

AREF's Residential Funds Working Group assisted in drafting the response and also, AREF liaised with other organisations to ensure our responses were aligned. 

Author

Jacqui Bungay

Jacqui Bungay

Head of Policy and Company Secretary, AREF

Jacqui is AREF’s Company Secretary and provides policy guidance and secretariat services to AREF’s Board and Management Committee as well as many of AREF's committees and working groups.

Jacqui joined AREF in 2014 after working for over 25 years in fund compliance, client relationships and administration in the trustee and depositary sector.