The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK

Adam Sheppard MRTPI FRGS FHEA is a planning academic at UWE Bristol with a background from professional practice. After working as a development management planner in local government Adam moved into academia where he now teaches and researches site scale planning implementation and decision making. Deborah Peel is Emeritus Professor at the University of Dundee and Visiting Professor at the University of Wageningen. Dr Heather Ritchie is Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Energy Policy in the School of the Built Environment, Ulster University. Sophie Berry is a senior planning officer for the Newport City Council.

Foreword ~ Janet Askew; Planning law in context; The nature of planning law; The development of planning law; Planning, plans and policy in the devolved UK; Core elements of planning law; Development management: permissions, applications & permitted development; Planning conditions, agreements & obligations; Specialist planning arrangements; Other forms of planning control & consent; Enforcement; Planning appeals, Judicial Review (JR) & the ombudsman; Reflections on planning law. ?