WHITEHALL
Government's housing test is 'toothless,' consultancy claims
By Heather Jameson | 28 April 2021
Government measures to push councils into meeting their housing targets are ‘toothless’, a develo...
FINANCE
Planning inquiry leaves council with six-figure bill
By Martin Ford | 27 April 2021
Rother DC has been ordered to pay costs amounting to six-figures after failing to fend off a plan...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Leading from the front on the ecological emergency
By Trevor Nicoll | 20 April 2021
South Cambridgeshire DC has signed up to a vision of doubling nature by 2050, with its partners i...
FINANCE
Planners back districts to keep homes bonus
By Heather Jameson | 12 April 2021
Planners have backed district councils to keep the lion’s share of New Homes Bonus (NHB) in respo...
PLANNING
Build back beautiful
By Sir Bob Neill | 08 April 2021
A new report puts forward a hyper-local approach to overcoming the housing crisis, with councils ...
PLANNING
Councils speak out over controversial planning laws
By William Eichler | 31 March 2021
Councils have stressed they continue to need to have a voice in the planning process as new laws ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Planning for climate power
23 March 2021
A new report from APSE Energy looks at the practical ways in which the power of planning can be h...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Labour calls for council powers to intervene in high streets
By Martin Ford | 25 February 2021
Proposals for councils to take over empty shops and a ‘wholesale reform’ of business rates have b...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Can logistics deliver a greener, more sustainable recovery in the capital?
By Robin Woodbridge | 12 February 2021
Robin Woodbridge lays out the arguments for refocusing on industrial development in London, inclu...
PLANNING
Councils are key to our climate goals
By Paul O'Brien | 02 February 2021
There is universal agreement that climate change targets can’t be achieved if councils are exclud...
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