PLANNING FINAL EXAM AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is the primary planning legislation in the UK? -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-The Town and
Country Planning Act 1990 (original 1947).
What other legislation is there / what is the hierarchy of
planning policy / legislation - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-•Planning
(Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
•The Planning and Compensation Act 1991
•The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
•Planning Act 2008
•Housing and Planning Act 2016
,•The Localism Act 2011: transfer of power from central
government to local authorities
and communities
What are Development Plans? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Local
Development plans / local plan / development plans are used
by local authorities to provide the vision for how communities
will grow
and develop in the future.
They contain: Development planning vision,
spatial strategy and key policies and proposals
They provide certainty for communities and investors
If your client proposed developing a site with trees protected
by a T.P.O. on it, what would you do? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Find
out which trees exactly are covered by a TPO.
Copies of TPO from LPA
Try to preserve as many of these trees in the development
proposal
,Bear in mind and advise client as necessary
- LPA has duty to preserve, plant trees, make TP0s. (T&CP Act
1990)
- Planning Conditions may refer to trees
- LRA will consider when deciding PA
i. Landscape design
ii. Compensatory planting Maintenance agreements
iv. May consult local Arboriculture' Organizations, Parish
Council
-PPG1 General Principles and Policy. Planning Applications
should consider:
m wider settings of buildings
Spaces in and around buildings
Landscape design
Environmental impact
-Local Plans
- Other designations eg Conservation Area (consent required on
all trees), ACM...
- With Planning Application:
, TPO consent not required with full PA; required with outline, or
permitted development PA
Bear in mind TPO legislation and advise client as necessary
TPO protects trees, groups, woodland
From: Topping, lopping, cutting down, willful damage,
destruction, uprooting
Purpose: "interests of amenity", visual, scarcity, screening,
beauty
Requires consent -F conditions for "works to trees" from LPA,
response within 8wks
Legislation: T&CP (IPO) Pegs 1998, T&CP (Trees) Pegs 1999,
T&CP Act 1990, P&C Act 1991, Circulars
Penalties: take into account financial benefits accruing, £20K on
summary, unlimited on
indictment, criminal offence, for lopping max £2500.
Exceptions to requirement of consent (if relevant)
Planning permission (if not in conditions)
Management Plan (if part of agreement)
Forest Commission License
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is the primary planning legislation in the UK? -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-The Town and
Country Planning Act 1990 (original 1947).
What other legislation is there / what is the hierarchy of
planning policy / legislation - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-•Planning
(Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
•The Planning and Compensation Act 1991
•The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
•Planning Act 2008
•Housing and Planning Act 2016
,•The Localism Act 2011: transfer of power from central
government to local authorities
and communities
What are Development Plans? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Local
Development plans / local plan / development plans are used
by local authorities to provide the vision for how communities
will grow
and develop in the future.
They contain: Development planning vision,
spatial strategy and key policies and proposals
They provide certainty for communities and investors
If your client proposed developing a site with trees protected
by a T.P.O. on it, what would you do? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Find
out which trees exactly are covered by a TPO.
Copies of TPO from LPA
Try to preserve as many of these trees in the development
proposal
,Bear in mind and advise client as necessary
- LPA has duty to preserve, plant trees, make TP0s. (T&CP Act
1990)
- Planning Conditions may refer to trees
- LRA will consider when deciding PA
i. Landscape design
ii. Compensatory planting Maintenance agreements
iv. May consult local Arboriculture' Organizations, Parish
Council
-PPG1 General Principles and Policy. Planning Applications
should consider:
m wider settings of buildings
Spaces in and around buildings
Landscape design
Environmental impact
-Local Plans
- Other designations eg Conservation Area (consent required on
all trees), ACM...
- With Planning Application:
, TPO consent not required with full PA; required with outline, or
permitted development PA
Bear in mind TPO legislation and advise client as necessary
TPO protects trees, groups, woodland
From: Topping, lopping, cutting down, willful damage,
destruction, uprooting
Purpose: "interests of amenity", visual, scarcity, screening,
beauty
Requires consent -F conditions for "works to trees" from LPA,
response within 8wks
Legislation: T&CP (IPO) Pegs 1998, T&CP (Trees) Pegs 1999,
T&CP Act 1990, P&C Act 1991, Circulars
Penalties: take into account financial benefits accruing, £20K on
summary, unlimited on
indictment, criminal offence, for lopping max £2500.
Exceptions to requirement of consent (if relevant)
Planning permission (if not in conditions)
Management Plan (if part of agreement)
Forest Commission License