USE OF LAND book - REVISED Edition

When I recently wrote the new Supplement to The Essential Guide to the Use of Land and Buildings under the Planning Acts, it was also my intention to make some minor amendments to update the text of the book itself, but in practice I found myself carrying out a rather more extensive revision of the text than I had originally intended, so that rather than a mere ‘updated’ edition, we are now going to publish a Revised Edition (with Supplement), which not only flags up the old and new Use Classes in the original text, but also brings various other legislative references up to date, and contains some new material and re-cast or re-written text.

In order to make proper sense of the Supplement describing and discussing the new Use Classes (which contains numerous cross-references to the main text of the book), the Revised Edition of the book itself will provide a much more useful basic text than the original edition would now do. It is solely for that reason (and not because I want to sell a lot more books) that I would strongly recommend readers to order the Revised Edition of the book, with the Supplement bound in, rather than just buying the Supplement alone.

The difference in price between the stand-alone Supplement and the Revised Edition of the book (including the Supplement) is only £35, which when you think about it is a remarkable bargain for such a useful book.

If you have already ordered the Supplement alone (for £15), or the Supplement plus webinar booking (for £40), you may now wish to upgrade your order to include the Revised Edition of the book (with bound-in Supplement), in place of the Supplement alone, by paying only £35 more. Bath Publishing have kindly agreed to process any revised orders, on receipt of the extra £35. So if you wish to upgrade an existing order, you should send an email to info@bathpublishing.co.uk and they'll take it from there.

I should emphasise though that if you have not yet placed an order at all, the best route is go is through the Bath Publishing website (using the link on the left-hand side of this page). There is still time to place an order, and to book for the webinar, if you have not yet done so.

We hope to go to press very shortly, and our aim is that, at the very least, you should have received the digital edition of the book (or Supplement) by 26 November, but we have been working to extremely tight deadlines, and so the production schedule has necessarily been squeezed. So it’s fingers crossed, but you certainly won’t have to wait too long for your order to arrive.

© MARTIN H GOODALL