Silkin Test Explained
The Silkin Test is a UK planning policy designed to control major developments which will affect areas classified as National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The three main criteria state that -
- it must be in the National interest;
- there is no practicable alternative to development in a National Park;
- must be built in a way that minimises detrimental effects on the environment.[1]
The test was contained in Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (formerly PPG7)[2] PPS7 has now been replaced by the National Planning Policy Framework (2012), in which paras. 115/116 set out a differently-worded test.
History
The criteria were first proposed by the then Minister of Town and Country Planning, Lewis Silkin MP in 1949.[3]
Notable applications
See also
Notes and References
- Environmental conditions placed on South Wales pipeline . Department of Trade and Industry (National) . Government News Network . 7 February 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191325/http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=262409&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False . 27 September 2007.
- until August 2004 the test was contained in its precursor - Planning Policy Guidance (PPG) 7: The Countryside – Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development.
- Brotherton . D I . The evolution and implications of mineral planning policy in the national parks of England and Wales . Environment and Planning . A21 . 9 . 1229–1240 . 1989 . 10.1068/a211229.
