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PLANNING
Planning officers 'unsupported' following reorganisation
By Martin Ford | 14 April 2023
A lack of preparation during reorganisation left West Northamptonshire Council’s planning departm...
PLANNING
Short-term lets to need planning permission
By Mark Whitehead | 13 April 2023
The Government has announced new rules to give communities greater control over short-term lets i...
WHITEHALL
Planning challenge to asylum scheme
By Mark Conrad | 12 April 2023
Planners will meet tomorrow to approve a blueprint that pitches West Lindsey DC against Home Offi...
PLANNING
Councils still expected to find housing sites
By Martin Ford | 31 March 2023
Members of the House of Lords have raised concerns that the decision to drop compulsory housebuil...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Not quite levelling up
By Baroness Sharon Taylor OBE | 28 March 2023
Former Stevenage BC leader, now Labour Peer, Sharon Taylor says ministers should use the Easter r...
WHITEHALL
Bid to give local plans primacy over national policies resisted
By Paul Marinko | 28 March 2023
The Government has resisted efforts in the House of Lords to give local planning proposals primac...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Glasgow seeks more powers
By Martin Ford | 28 March 2023
Glasgow is to formally approach Holyrood and Westminster for more powers to help revitalise its c...
ENVIRONMENT
Councils to get more powers over anti-social behaviour
By Martin Ford | 27 March 2023
Councils will be handed extra powers alongside increased accountability for tackling anti-social ...
WHITEHALL
Councils need the power to set fees
By Ian Miller | 20 March 2023
While the DCN welcomes the proposed increases to planning fees, what councils need is the power t...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Planning for resilience
By Sandy Forsyth | 08 March 2023
Localis’s Sandy Forsyth outlines the case for a national plan to ensure place-based best practice...
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