All planning system articles
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NewsJenrick 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
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Developers hit out at planning U-turn
Land promoters brand retreat on housing formula a “highly regressive lurch backwards”
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New housing formula is better politics than it is policy
The government’s latest U-turn appears to direct growth towards areas that are unlikely to deliver it, writes Joey Gardiner
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Cities told to accommodate huge housing uplift
Government reversal on housing algorithm piles 35% uplift on numbers for English cities
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Architects fear latest permitted development expansion will be disastrous
Designers say the damage to towns and local democracy from town centre conversions ‘unacceptable’
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Does Boris still have the appetite to take on planning?
Given Tory unease over proposed white paper reforms, plans could be watered down or even dropped
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Tory councillors join call for government planning rethink
CPRE-backed letter to Robert Jenrick says white paper reforms undemocratic
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Government lays out further PD rights expansion
Proposals will allow most town centre uses to be converted to homes without planning permission
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What does Trump vs Biden have to say about UK housing policy?
The US presidential election highlighted how suburban housing has become a new political battleground
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Airspace developer pledges 5,000 London homes
Alpamint Capital says it will build homes on top of existing properties after planning relaxation
