In December, the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) came into immediate effect, introducing the most ...

The housing secretary has announced a series of new measures against developers that fail to build out permitted sites ...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a fresh effort by retail giant Tesco to block plans by rival superstore Lidl to open a new ...

The government’s “oppositional approach” to people who oppose development in their area is “backfiring” as the proportion of ...

A planning inspector has allowed a housebuilder's plans for up to 90 homes on a 'green wedge' site that the local authority ...

An examiner has backed a town council’s proposal to cut the number of housing sites in its draft neighbourhood plan from five ...

A planning inspector has upheld a council’s enforcement notice requiring a homeowner to destroy an unlawfully-built basement ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner has told local planning authorities to “raise their game with up-to-date local plans” and has ...

A report that a council is launching a legal challenge against a planning inspector’s approval of 315 homes after a fire ...

The High Court has rejected an effort to overturn a council’s planning permission for an eight-storey student housing block, ...

A parish council has succeeded in having a unitary authority's planning permission for a 100-home scheme quashed by the High ...

A report that a planning inspector has ordered a couple to demolish a three-bedroom £1 million home that they "secretly" ...