A South East council has revealed that it has exceeded its budget for costs on defending appeals by £213,000 so far this year ...

The High Court has dismissed a town council’s legal challenge against a planning inspector’s decision to allow an appeal for ...

The High Court has dismissed a town council’s legal challenge against a planning inspector’s decision to allow an appeal for ...

A report that Sir Michael Lyons, head of the government’s New Towns Taskforce, says the new settlements “will only gear up in ...

The government’s plans to introduce mandatory housing targets are “doomed to fail”, the umbrella body for English local ...

Outline planning permission for up to 210 dwellings in Staffordshire was granted after an inspector decided that the council’s spatial strategy was multi-faceted and was not to be considered solely on ...

A scheme involving the provision of 50 retirement flats and 25 apartments including a community use building in Warwickshire was held by an inspector to involve an unacceptable loss of sporting ...

The Secretary of State for Transport issued consent under the Planning Act 2008 for a new roll-on/roll-off (‘Ro-Ro’) development at the port of Immingham on the Humber estuary after concluding that ...

While the deadline for submissions to this year’s survey has now passed, firms yet to submit a response have just five hours ...

While the deadline for submissions to this year’s survey has now passed, firms yet to submit a response have 24 hours to get ...

A proposal for 12 homes on green belt land in Hertfordshire green belt has been rejected, despite the inspector accepting that the new draft NPPF indicated “a direction of travel towards supporting ...