The Community Right to Build

The Community Right to Build is an interesting concept announced by the Coalition Government. The Government says that it is acting to remove red tape and bureaucracy that holds back a neighbourhood from improving its area. The Community Right to Build is at an embryonic stage. It part of the Government’s drive to create the “Big Society”. It will allow a community organisation to go ahead with development without the need for an application for planning permission, if there is overwhelming community support for the development, and minimum criteria are met. One wonders if one criterion will be: “Does not allow a landowner to develop land in a way that side-steps a clawback provision triggered by the grant of a planning permission”?