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After the General Election on 6 May, a cloud of uncertainty hung over the future of the legislation and policy that governed the property industry under Labour
The future of the Infrastructure Planning Commission set up to deal with major infrastructure projects has been in some doubt during the election campaign with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats saying they would abolish it
The Planning Act applies a new consent regime to sixteen different types of project the first time that energy, transport, water and waste projects will use the same regime for authorisation
National Policy Statements are the expressions of need and impacts that will be used as the basis for deciding applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects starting on 1 March 2010
