The government has reportedly refused to back a council’s bid to temporarily block development near a chemicals factory where ...

Reports that two Essex councils have submitted a joint bid for a 10,000-home new town on green belt while another local authority in the East Midlands is set approve its own new town submission lead ...

A council has launched a judicial review of an inspector’s decision to grant an appeal for a battery energy storage scheme ...

Voting forms for Planning’s annual survey of the most well-respected barristers, solicitors and law firms have been sent out ...

Concerns over the erosion of a gap between settlements and impact on a national park has scuppered a housing scheme in West Sussex, in a redetermined decision. If you haven’t got access, please take a ...

The planning minister has said the government expects the “majority” of Crown development applications to be subject to a ...

An inspector has refused permission for a volume housebuilder’s plan for 475 ...

A report that American TV star Kelsey Grammer has been given “controversial” planning permission to demolish his 200-year-old ...

Local Plan Watch: A council has adopted what it claims to be the “UK’s first brownfield-only” local plan, after accepting a request from inspectors to provide for more than 1,000 additional homes than ...

An inspector has given the go-ahead to plans for a 177-unit “multi-generational” scheme on the site of a former gasworks, ...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has approved an expansion of Luton Airport against the recommendation of inspectors. If ...

The Labour government finally responded to a consultation by the previous Conservative administration on proposed changes to ...