Course focus

Licensing Basic Survival Guide

Date:
26 March 2013
Venue:
DLA Piper LLP, Leeds
CPD:
4.5

Training programmes

Planning Obligations

This course will help you to:

  • Comment upon draft reports to Committee and minutes of Committee meetings
  • Decide when to intervene in discussion at Committee about planning obligations
  • Advise Members and Officers on what can be sought by way of planning obligation
  • Decide when an application needs to be referred back to Committee after a resolution to grant
  • Avoid legal pitfalls when drafting agreements
  • Help you to negotiate with respect to specific issues such as affordable housing, highway works, education and provision of public open space
  • Enforce planning agreements
  • Consider the effect the Community Infrastructure Levy will have on the drafting of s106 Agreements

A day to help identify ‘risk’ areas for local planning authorities in terms of judicial challenge, appeal and inability to effectively enforce obligations.

There will be an opportunity for delegates to try their hand at drafting.

  • Setting Heads of Terms in the light of the ‘Tesco’ case
  • Presenting items to Committee
     - When to intervene
     - Risk of Judicial Review - Case Law
     - Drafting – potential problems
     - Parties
     - Policies
     - Payments
     - Priorities
     - Transfers of interest in land
  • Breaches and remedies
     (workshop on turning Heads of Terms into workable clauses)
  • Community Infrastructure Levy impact
  • Drafting – potential problems
  • Completion and monitoring

" Course was very useful. Easy to follow and a lot of detail"
"Thorough and comprehensive - excellent "

Penny Gray, Carlisle City Council
Wendi Batteson, Wokingham Borough Council

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