All planning system articles
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NewsGove pledges to take on ‘vested interests’ of major developers
But housing secretary maintains 300,000 homes a year ’ambition’ remains despite anti-housebuilder rhetoric
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News
Planning fees to soar by a third in bid to ease planning gridlock
Department proposes increase in order to pump resources into ’stressed’ planning system
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Gove ditches five-year land supply policy
Councils with up-to-date plans will not have to show a five-year supply of housing sites under new plans
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Fears Queen’s Speech means death of hoped-for planning reforms
Planners call for councils to be ”sufficiently resourced” to deliver what changes are brought forward
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Environmental assessment shake-up included in planning reforms
Reforms included as part of levelling up agenda but no space in Queen’s Speech for stand-alone Planning Bill
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Comment
Solving nutrient neutrality puzzle is a key test of ministers’ housebuilding commitment
On nutrient neutrality, the government must find a way of protecting the environment while being fair to the housing development industry, argues Joey Gardiner
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News
Councils more able to refuse schemes on design grounds under new NPPF
Study shows inspectors are now backing council refusals at planning appeals
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Gove ‘ditches’ Ox-Cam Arc project
Local authority boss says department has said it does not want to take million-home project forward
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Planning reform update promised this spring
Government’s chief planner urges councils to make progress on local plans in the meantime
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Planning system has hit ‘lowest point’ says Redrow
Housebuilder says system contributed to decline in completions in half year results
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Tory district council latest to pause local plan work
Councillors in Mid Sussex decide to pause plan work in light of uncertainty over government planning reforms
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In Focus
Is working from home driving a planning system crisis?
With growing evidence to support the idea that the functioning of the planning system has fallen to its lowest-ever ebb, developers are pointing the finger at the switch to remote working by local authorities
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News
Every council must approve ‘four to five’ more large schemes each year
Planning consultant estimates how much more new land required by developers to hit government build targets
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Gove says government will legislate for ‘street votes’
Housing secretary tells MPs that plan for suburban densification is a ‘triple whammy’ of good news
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Government appoints resi developer as new chief architect
The MD of Solid Space and former head of urban design at Cabe to replace Andy von Bradsky
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CPRE calls for introduction of ‘brownfield first’ policy
Countryside charity claims government presiding over ‘tragic’ loss of green fields
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Call to boost housing numbers by 67,000 per year in north and midlands
Building Back Britain Commission warns government housing policy is ‘not dynamic enough’ to meet extra demand from ‘levelling up’ growth
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Gove rejects major Kent scheme despite council’s ‘significant’ housing land shortfall
Housing secretary uses first appeal decision to turn down controversial 1,250-home scheme in Medway
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‘Nutrient neutrality’ rules threaten plans for 33,000 homes a year
Savills says stipulations in designated Special Protection Areas having increasing impact on development plans
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Welwyn Hatfield pauses local plan citing PM’s ‘no green field’ conference speech
Green belt authority cancels series of local plan meetings after Boris Johnson tells Tories he wants to take ‘pressure off the South-east’
