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...
Planning minister Brandon Lewis has launched a review of how local plans are agreed, with the aim of cutting the amount of time it takes councils to get them in place.
Efforts to improve the productivity of the UK economy are being hindered by “fundamental flaws” in governance that means investment in infrastructure is insufficient to boost growth, a...
Ministers could take the power to decide on fracking applications away from local authorities that do not make decisions on developments within 16 weeks, it has been announced.
Council spending in England fell by almost a third over the duration of the last Parliament, with housing and planning the areas that were hardest hit, CIPFA analysis has found.
Councils that fail to produce local housing and commercial development plans could be forced to do so by the local government secretary Greg Clark, according to proposals in the Treasury’s national...
Councils in the north of England have been urged to set out their planning priorities for the region as part of a project that will consider the creation of a strategic spatial plan.
