30th November 2007, 03:39 PM
I think maybe you mean the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 or PACPA. This introduced Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) and local development documents (LDD) amongst other things. It was intended to 'make better plans and make better planning decisions more quickly'. It doesn't in any way supersede the provisions of PPG16 though. The thresholds you refer to are presumably those which distinguish a non-strategic development from a strategic one. There is still a shortfall in Northants when it comes to sites which fall outside this range. Clearly the size of a site is not indexed linked to it's archaeological potential.