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

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

The government has proposed tightening the criteria under which local authorities are at risk of ‘special measures’ for the ...

The government has proposed tightening the criteria under which local authorities are at risk of ‘special measures’ for the ...

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge against a planning inspector’s consent for a 92 hectare solar farm, with legal ...

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge against a planning inspector’s consent for a 92 h ...

The government this week announced a series of proposals designed to speed up build out rates for consented sites and to help ...

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

An inspector has allowed up to 78 homes on an unallocated site in the countryside after finding that, though the local ...

A key policy advisor to the government on biodiversity net gain (BNG) has joined conservationists in raising concerns about ...

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

The government has proposed allowing councils to “conditionally confirm” the compulsory purchase order (CPO) of sites where ...