The independent Budget watchdog has predicted that the government's revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF ...

Two of the three councils currently under special measures designation for the quality of their decision-making now sit below ...

Some 12 councils are underperforming under the government’s ‘special measures’ programme for the quality of their planning ...

A planning inspector has refused an appeal for a 290-home development on a former green belt site within the Cotswolds ...

A report that a TV broadcaster has been ordered by a council to demolish an unlawfully-built home extension leads our daily ...

Fears over crime and anti-social behaviour arising from a proposed adult gaming centre in Birmingham have been overruled. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial below.

A parish council has submitted a draft neighbourhood plan th ...

An authority has voted to scrap its emerging local plan and to instead prepare a strategy under the new plan-making system - ...

The government published its spring statement yesterday (26 March). Below, we summarise the key reaction from planning and ...

An MP has urged the housing secretary to call in a county council’s approved application that he labelled “disgraceful” ...

Local plan advertisement control is more effective than any other type of local plan policy or guidance at tackling obesity, ...