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Rescue responds to NPPF
Today’s publication of the National Planning Policy Framework brings to an end 22 years of separate archaeological guidance within the planning system. First through PPG16, and latterly through PPS5, archaeology has been one of the various material considerations required of a developer when they are submitting an application. Part of the system maybe, but strangely peripheral in many ways. The NPPF changes this: the Government’s framework brings together what they consider to be the principle keystones of sustainable planning and…
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