Many redevelopment schemes in the UK put the onus on corporate profit at the cost of local communities but other countries show there is another way, argues Genevieve Maitland Hudson of Social...
Council leaders have praised the government’s “positive” u-turn on the definition of affordable housing but said it was “hugely disappointing” that local authorities would be punished for low build...
The government’s planning framework overhaul does not go quite far enough in fostering better co-operation between counties and districts in their respective strategic planning roles, says the...
The first tranche of a fund aimed at speeding up planning decisions will be £15.8m, spread among 68 projects, housing minister Dominic Raab has announced.
A long-awaited 20% increase in local authority planning fees will start on 17 January, a letter from Department for Communities and Local Government's chief planner Steve Quartermain has said.
The government has failed to deliver on a promise to allow councils to increase planning application fees, leaving councils facing a £1bn bill, the Local Government Association has said.
Local authorities are to be given new tools to increase the speed and scale of house building in their area as part of government proposals to tackle the nationwide housing crisis.
Almost three-quarters of local councils believe that the planning system is weighted too heavily in favour of developers at the expense of local democracy, according to a survey.
Councils and other planning authorities need to act more decisively when taking enforcement action against planning breaches in order to maintain control of the built environment, the local...
An independent review of Scotland’s planning system has called for root-and-branch reform to engage the public more actively in improving the built environment by making the process more interesting...
The planning system is under attack, as the government is set on delivering more housing for owner-occupiers, sidelining local councils, allowing homes to be created without consent and pushing...
Councils will have to compete with other authorities or companies to process planning applications in their area under Department for Communities and Local Government reforms intended to speed up...
Councils have been forced to spend £450m covering the cost of planning applications in the last three years because of government caps on the fees they can charge, the Local Government...
District councils have called for process by which local plans are adopted to be overhauled through improved scrutiny and the creation of a national list of development policies.
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to boost home ownership as part of what he called a “turnaround decade” in Britain, with planning changes set to regard a programme of ‘...
The assets of the 89 local government pension funds in England and Wales are to be pooled into six new British Wealth Funds as parts of efforts to overhaul infrastructure financing, Chancellor George...
