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).
Contents
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.
The test was contained in Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (formerly PPG7) PPS7 has now been replaced by the National Planning Policy Framework (2012), in which paras. 115/116 set out a differently-worded test.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.
Notable applications
References
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