A High Court judge has upheld a housebuilder’s challenge to an inspector’s dismissal of its plan for new homes, after finding ...

Consultants and lawyers have expressed alarm at new Planning Inspectorate (PINS) guidance that requires developers making written representation appeals to submit ...

Why planning consultants and lawyers are alarmed about new requirements for the early submission of planning obligation agreements as part of written representation appeals; Three more councils ...

Seven planning partners are set to defect from one of the country’s largest planning law teams to a rival firm, which ranked joint 32nd in Planning’s 2024 survey of planning law firms. Up to 55 per ...

The government’s plans to introduce mandatory housing targets are “doomed to fail”, the umbrella body for English local authorities has warned. More Housing News and Analysis City delays local plan to ...

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by the London Borough of Lambeth to an inspector’s decision to grant a lawful development certificate (LDC) and planning permission for the amalgamation of two ...

A certificate of lawful use or development for the change of use of a townhouse to a children's home at a site in a West Yorkshire town has been rejected after an inspector found that it had not been ...

A decision on what would be the UK’s longest road tunnel, linking Essex and Kent across the Thames Estuary, has been pushed ...

A report that ministers are looking at a slower extension of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester, because of an anticipated ...

Planning permission for the erection of a dwelling and the conversion of an existing dwelling to seven units of private sector emergency accommodation at a site in a residential inner city suburb of ...

A local planning authority has rehired a chartered town planner who once served as its head of regeneration.