All planning system articles
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NewsCourt rules virtual planning meetings must halt next week
Legal challenge by planners designed to avoid hiatus in decision-making fails
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Minster backs Tory think tank call for more planning reform
Housing minister supports report proposing planning permissions by replaced by “delivery contracts”
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Challenge to South Oxfordshire’s 23,550-home plan hits buffers
High Court rejects judicial review bid against controversial local development plan “forced through” by housing secretary Robert Jenrick
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Critics brand PD rights expansion a ‘disaster’
Planners, developers and designers line up against new resi conversion right
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Planning hiatus expected as virtual committees to end
Government confirms it will not extend emergency covid powers which have allowed councils to hold planning committees online
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Legal challenge launched to stop end of ’virtual planning’
Local government bodies seek judgment designed to prevent planning system “grinding to a halt” in May
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Comment
What do we need from the next London mayor?
Ben Derbyshire suggests a few fresh policies for a more sustainabile and equitable built environment
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Jenrick approves 480-home Brum regen scheme
Housing secretary supports Eutopia Homes £130m project in Digbeth despite council opposition
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McCarthy & Stone demands bungalow renaissance
Retirement housebuilder calls for planning reforms to encourage bungalows amid post-pandemic spike in demand
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Jenrick U-turn sees approval for 500-home scheme on green belt
Housing secretary decides CEG’s controversial Burley-Wharfedale scheme should go ahead despite previous opposition
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Jenrick backs £34bn suburb redevelopment plan
Housing secretary supports Policy Exchange call for streets to grant themselves permission to redevelop
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Businesses urge Jenrick to ditch blanket resi PD right for high streets
Groups representing shops and developers write to housing secretary over radical permitted development plan
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Influential architect backs freedoms to convert offices to housing
Norman Foster says office buildings abandoned during the pandemic could become ’residential towers of the future’
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London Plan finally adopted
Mayor Sadiq Khan approves much altered document four years after starting work on it
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Developers line up to oppose new resi conversion right
The British Property Federation says uncontrolled conversion of shops and restaurants to homes will damage high streets
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Jenrick publishes draft national design code
Housing secretary sets up Office for Place as part of plan to ‘bring back beauty’
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South Oxfordshire’s 23,000-home plan faces legal challenge
Campaign group says plan was adopted under ‘enormous pressure’ from housing secretary
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Two years until planning reforms are in place, chief planner says
Timetable raises questions over whether new-style local plans will be in place before the end of the parliament
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Chief planner hints at backtrack on Section 106 reforms
Joanna Averley says government will proceed ‘incredibly carefully’ with proposed changes to developer contribution system
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Green groups call for government backtrack on planning reforms
Coalition led by CPRE says rethink needed given ‘democratic deficit’ in proposed growth zones
