Three quarters of planning committee members in England think the government’s target of delivering 1.5 million homes during ...

The government has proposed that minor residential development schemes should benefit from a “streamlined” biodiversity net ...

A county council has launched a legal challenge after it claimed a “devastating” fire “altered” the basis on which an ...

Provisions in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will facilitate a "shift in responsibility" for the oversight of ...

In December, the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) came into immediate effect, introducing the most ...

Councils would be allowed to refuse to determine planning applications submitted not just by applicants but by any “person” ...

A report that a city council must reconsider an application for what would be the UK’s tallest tower outside London because ...

The High Court has ruled that a council acted “unlawfully” in allowing the change of use of a park for festivals under ...

A parish council has succeeded in having a unitary authority's planning permission for a 100-home scheme quashed by the High ...

The housing secretary has announced a series of new measures against developers that fail to build out permitted sites ...

An examiner has backed a town council’s proposal to cut the number of housing sites in its draft neighbourhood plan from five ...