Each month in our e-bulletin Future Perfect?, we ask a question and invite readers' views and comments on it. This month, we hope we may have seen an answer, rather than a question. It goes as follows....
This month's conundrum actually isn't a conundrum at all, but hopefully an answer to one of our earlier questions. In December 2008, we questioned the relevance of public procurement rules to section 106 agreements. This week, we have seen a news item that suggests that there has been clarification on this issue to the effect that procurement is irrelevant where the planning authority's own monies are not being spent.
The Government is now expected to issue guidelines on the application of the Roanne case later this month, which we're sure will be welcomed by the property industry whose lobbying has brought about this clarification.
So, that's one conundrum solved.
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