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

A planning inspector has allowed a housebuilder's plans for up to 90 homes on a 'green wedge' site that the local authority ...

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

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

A report that a council is launching a legal challenge against a planning inspector’s approval of 315 homes after a fire ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner has told local planning authorities to “raise their game with up-to-date local plans” and has ...

Whitehall departments and agencies seeking to make use of two new fast-track planning application routes for government bodies that bypass local authorities will have to demonstrate why they consider ...

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 after concluding that the council had not ...

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 ...