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Article: So what does PPS1 tell us about spatial planning? The ambitious goal of spatial planning--as envisaged in PPS1--needs to be implemented in more ways than through the statutory planning system.(key policy and principles)
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- Town and Country Planning
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- April 1, 2004
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The real problem with spatial planning in PPS1 lies in the disjuncture between, on the one hand, the emphasis on 'the nature of place' and integrating a wide set of relevant policies and programmes and, on the other, the continuing definition of the planning system strictly in terms of development and land use. For all its avowed emphasis on 'spatial' planning and 'place', these terms get much tess mention in PPS1 than the old-fashioned terms of 'development' and 'land use'. The core of the planning system, as recognised in para. 1.31 of PPS1, is the grant of planning permission and therefore "only policies which can be implemented through the granting of planning (i.e. ...