{"id":200,"date":"2014-10-29T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:46:54","slug":"the-duty-to-co-operate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policies\/the-duty-to-co-operate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duty to Co-operate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-operation between organisations is a vital part of developing planning policy and making decisions on planning applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific requirements of co-operation are set out in the Localism Act. This states that Local Authorities must co-operate with a variety of organisations to ensure that planning issues which cross local authority boundaries are considered effectively and appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to set-out how co-operation on planning matters will function in Devon, the Local Authorities and a range of other organisations have worked together to produce the <a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/EWm8MZ7G5EtGtj6wkUnZOzUBktouYc0DL697RxLZTW-s5g?e=O882gC\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Duty to Co-operate Protocol<\/a>. This sets out which planning related topics will be subject to specific co-operation and how the co-operation will work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"stcpDiv\">The Protocol is in the process of being endorsed by Local Authorities and a range of other organisations. A final version will be available to view when it has been signed by all organisations currently involved. Going forward additional bodies may endorse the Protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-operation between organisations is a vital part of developing planning policy and making decisions on planning applications. The specific requirements of co-operation are set out in the Localism Act. This states that Local Authorities must co-operate with a variety of organisations to ensure that planning issues which cross local authority boundaries are considered effectively and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 21:59:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6557,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/6557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}