Planning application fees increased by 1.7 per cent on Tuesday (1 April), rising in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

Rolling out the Planning and Infrastructure Bill's changes to nature protection rules without testing the impacts may “court ...

The government has merged two Whitehall agencies tasked with improving the delivery of major infrastructure projects, ...

The High Court has handed down judicial guidance for the first time on how planning decision-makers should interpret a new ...

The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has announced that it won’t issue any findings on the soundness or legal compliance of local ...

An inspector has allowed a housebuilder’s appeal for 281 homes on an unallocated greenfield site, after the authority ...

A claim by a builders’ trade body that a rise in planning application fees will push some developers “out of housebuilding” ...

A planner who played a leading role in the Olympic Delivery Authority has stepped down as chair of multi-disciplinary ...

A report that a government agency has dropped an objection that was holding up plans for 18,000 homes around Oxford due to ...

A council has refused permission for a solar farm that would result in the loss of 44 hectares of best and most versatile (BMV) agricultural land on the green belt, despite officers recommending the ...

A planning officer at a Hertfordshire council wrongly approved plans for a home extension when intending to refuse it due to ...