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London’s deputy mayor for planning has approved plans to redevelop a school site into a 307-home mixed-use scheme, overturning a refusal by the local authority on design grounds.
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The shadow housing secretary says she has been asked by her party leader to undertake a ‘major project’ to revamp the planning system under a future Conservative government.
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The shadow housing secretary has told the Conservative Party conference that her party's pledge to scrap nature quangos Natural England and the Environment Agency was due to them having made it “effectively impossible to build anything”.
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The government has laid regulations that amend the permitted development rights regime for electric vehicle infrastructure, which include the introduction of a new right for “cross-pavement” charging points.
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The High Court has dismissed a firm's claim against a local authority’s issuing of a notice requiring the removal of an illuminated advertisement on the side of a building, rejecting arguments that the decision interfered with the claimant's human rights.
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The Conservative Party has pledged to replace the current "broken and inflexible" system of planning contributions based on section 106 legal agreements and the community infrastructure levy with a single “one-stop levy” if they get elected to government
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A real estate firm that once had one of the UK’s biggest planning consultancy teams is proposing to shut its entire 25-strong planning division, according to a source.
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A developer has called on the housing secretary to call in its plans for 660 homes on a home counties green belt site, after the application was refused by council members against the advice of their officers.
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The planning minister has told a council he is “disappointed” that it has “removed a substantial number of sites” from its draft local plan, ordering it to halt work on the document while he decides whether to intervene further.
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A planning barrister has been appointed as a High Court judge, 11 years after taking silk.
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A local authority has approved a 920-home scheme on a greenfield site, after a viability report confirmed the developers’ claims that only ten per cent affordable housing could be provided compared to the borough's 40 per cent requirement.
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The government’s nature adviser has announced that it will “focus” its advice to councils on planning applications that are “likely to significantly affect designated nature sites or protected landscapes”, with standardised or no comments for other cases.
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A Labour MP for the area covered by the first of what is intended to be a network of plans allowing polluting developments to go ahead if they pay into a mitigation fund has claimed the document does not sufficiently address damage caused by agriculture.
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The planning minister has said that society must “raise the status of planning as a profession”, saying it had been “degraded over recent years”.
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The government will expand the range of site sizes for which the proposed standardised section 106 developer contribution agreements are available, the planning minister told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference yesterday (29 September).
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The planning minister said he finds it “frustrating” to see so many cases of councils turning down planning applications “for no good reason”.
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An inspector has allowed an appeal for 600 countryside homes, finding that the plans met a test in the National Planning Policy Framework applying the “presumption in favour of sustainable development” outside settlements if there is an unmet housing need.
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Some ten councils who did not previously face the presumption in favour of sustainable development due to a housing land supply shortfall or previous poor housing delivery test scores now face the penalty after the latest results of the annual test.
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The planning minister has told a fringe event at the Labour party conference that the government is “not going to revise the NPPF again”.
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A city council’s emerging local plan that has been in examination for almost three years has been delayed again, after planning inspectors examining the document advised the authority to consult on appraisals for six additional brownfield site allocations.
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