Course focus

The 2nd Annual Hardwicke Social Housing Conference

Date:
27 October 2010
Venue:
ETC Venues - Prospero House, London
CPD:
5.5

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 proposed 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)
  • Drafting – potential problems
  • Drafting exercise
  • Completion and monitoring

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