Delays in the UK planning system – down to brick colour and tile choices – are stalling housing delivery. We need 3,000 new planners and faster approvals to meet national housing goals and boost ...

What The Planning And Infrastructure Act 2025 And Proposed Reform To The National Planning Policy Framework Means For Real ...

The Labour government is opening a consultation on its plans to reform the planning system, as part of its push to lower the barriers to datacentre developments in the UK. The consultation is being ...

Local councillors who sit on planning committees could lose decision-making powers for certain types of applications, under a government shake-up of the UK planning system. Applications could be ...

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill now going through parliament is intended to streamline the slow and complex planning system and is certainly a step in the right direction. But as long-standing ...

The planning system continues to be a hot topic in the property industry, the biggest concern being that the existing system is hampering growth and creating a barrier to development. With the current ...

Reforms to change how environmental concerns are addressed in the UK planning system have sparked job security fears among thousands of ecologists, according to senior industry figures. The proposed ...

Campaigners developed the tool amid fears that Labour's "build, baby, build" approach to the planning system will drown out local voices. Labour has been warned that plans to use artificial ...