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In December, the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) came into immediate effect, introducing the most ...
A report that the government has backed a City of London policy of clustering skyscrapers in a response to a United Nations ...
The garden communities lead at the government’s housing delivery agency has praised a 2,200-home scheme whose net zero ...
The High Court has rejected an effort to overturn a council’s planning permission for an eight-storey student housing block, ...
A planning inspector has upheld a council’s enforcement notice requiring a homeowner to destroy an unlawfully-built basement ...
A report that a planning inspector has ordered a couple to demolish a three-bedroom £1 million home that they "secretly" ...
It is taking nearly three times longer for local authorities to determine outline planning applications for large housing ...
The relaxation of green belt protections and the strengthening of local housing need targets in December’s revised National ...
An inspector has upheld a land promoter’s outline plans for 315 homes on unallocated farmland near a protected site, after ...
A report that the High Court has found that a London borough acted unlawfully in granting planning permission for events in a ...
In allowing an appeal involving outline permission for up to ninety dwellings in Derbyshire an inspector refused to award costs in favour of the appellant concluding that the council had not acted ...
The High Court has quashed an inspector’s permission for a developer to build camping facilities on land owned by a golf club ...