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Planning Obligations

ODPM 05/2005

This Circular replaces Department of the Environment Circular 1/97, which is hereby cancelled.

The purpose of this Circular is to provide revised guidance to local authorities in England on the use of planning obligations under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as substituted by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991. Sections 46 and 47 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 give the Secretary of State the power to make regulations to replace s106, but the Secretary of State has not yet taken these powers, and so the Circular does not concern these sections.

View the circular here (PDF 147 Kb).

View the 'Draft revised Circular on Planning Obligations - Summary Consultation Responses' here.