An inspector has allowed outline plans for up to 650 homes on unallocated greenfield land, after finding that the scheme’s benefits, including new housing in an area with a land supply shortfall, ...

A report that a local authority has ordered a man to demolish an unlawfully-built £180,000 “granny flat” in his back garden ...

The British Homes Awards champion the best architecture, interior design and landscaping across the UK. Launched in 1999, the ...

The High Court has quashed a planning inspector’s refusal of plans for a ten-home self-build development over a lack of ...

A report that a homeowner with decking that breached planning rules used Google Earth to prove it had been built more than ...

The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has announced that ministers will expand the scope of the “simplified” written ...

The planning minister Matthew Pennycook has said he expects a “sharp uptick” in planning application numbers towards the end ...

Just 21 per cent of local authority planning departments in England are “fully staffed”, according to a trade union survey, ...

A council has voted to undertake a second consultation on a revised version of its draft local plan, which doubles the number ...

The government’s new industrial strategy has suggested that the proposed national development management policies (NDMPs) ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has told MPs that neighbourhood plans can still “play an important role” in the planning ...

A planner who is an interim corporate director at a London borough has announced she is leaving the role at the end of the ...