It is taking nearly three times longer for local authorities to determine outline planning applications for large housing schemes than it did ten years ago, while just four per cent of such proposals ...

An inspector has upheld a land promoter’s outline plans for 315 homes on unallocated farmland near a protected site, after ...

The relaxation of green belt protections and the strengthening of local housing need targets in December’s revised National ...

A report that the High Court has found that a London borough acted unlawfully in granting planning permission for events in a ...

In allowing an appeal involving outline permission for up to ninety dwellings in Derbyshire an inspector refused to award costs in favour of the appellant concluding that the council had not acted ...

An inspector has upheld a council’s demolition order for a six-storey block of 27 flats after the developer failed to sign a ...

A local planning authority has ordered a volume housebuilder to cease “unauthorised” works on a site with planning permission ...

The High Court has agreed to hear a judicial review challenge b ...

A report that a council was left with a £141,000 bill after an inspector overturned its refusal of plans for 344 homes ...

A council leader has said he is “deeply disappointed” after the secretary of state overturned the authority’s refusal of ...

A planning inspector has allowed a housebuilder’s appeal over plans for 344 homes on an allocated site that a council ...

A council leader has authorised a review of the borough’s green belt in anticipation of questions from inspectors examining ...