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Trial underway to shape the future of planning

The Planning Inspectorate is working close with the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities to review the services offered to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP). Areas under consideration include reshaping

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Trial underway to shape the future of planning

The Planning Inspectorate is working close with the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities to review the services offered to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP).  Areas under consideration include reshaping pre-application service support and looking at how processes could be made smoother and quicker.

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New report highlights rural bus service at ‘historic low’

A new report by the County Council Network (CCN) and Systra has revealed that many services in rural areas are already in a state of ‘managed decline’.  The State of County Buses claims the pandemic accelerated the situation, with the government’s much lauded National Bus Strategy doing very “little to address these issues.”

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