This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis, the information is supported by practical and applied discussion to help students understand planning in the real world. The book is written in an accessible style, enabling students with little or no planning law knowledge to engage in the subject and develop the necessary level of understanding required for both professionally accredited and non-accredited courses in built environment subjects. The book will be of value to students on a range of built environment courses, particularly urban planning, architecture, environmental management and property-related programmes, as well as law and practice-orientated modules.

Adam Sheppard MRTPI FRGS FHEA is a planning academic at UWE Bristol with a background from professional practice. After working as a development management planner in local government Adam moved into academia where he now teaches and researches site scale planning implementation and decision making.

Foreword ~ Janet Askew;

Planning law in context;

The nature of planning law;

The development of planning law;

Planning, plans and policy in the devolved UK;

Core elements of planning law;

Development management: permissions, applications & permitted development;

Planning conditions, agreements & obligations;

Specialist planning arrangements;

Other forms of planning control & consent;

Enforcement;

Planning appeals, Judicial Review (JR) & the ombudsman;

Reflections on planning law.