WHITEHALL
Council planning powers under threat
By Michael Burton | 08 June 2020
Planning powers could be shifted from local authorities to development corporations as part of an...
PLANNING
Call for investigation into 'unlawful' development approval
By Martin Ford | 02 June 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick is facing demands for an investigation after his decisi...
PLANNING
How planners can use the cloud to tackle COVID-19
By Robin Barber | 06 May 2020
Robin Barber says council planners should be working with suppliers to understand how easily they...
PLANNING
The Planning Inspectorate – Will it win its technology race?
By Jasmine Ratta | 05 May 2020
COVID-19 is driving the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) to modernise, says Jasmine Ratta. She hopes ...
PLANNING
Mend the UK's broken land laws to fix housing
By Tony Murrell | 29 April 2020
Tony Murrell says many believe it’s time for legislation requiring landowners and developers to s...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Getting back to recovery
By John Cooper | 28 April 2020
Stewart Murray argues councils need to be much more interventionalist if they are to help their l...
WHITEHALL
Council launches judicial review over local plan
By Dan Peters | 17 April 2020
Sevenoaks DC has begun judicial review proceedings after the Government’s planning inspector refu...
PLANNING
Technology delivers democracy in Waltham Forest during the COVID-19 emergency
By Martin Esom | 14 April 2020
Martin Esom outlines how Waltham Forest became the first council to pilot its monthly planning co...
WHITEHALL
Video conferencing first at council meeting
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2020
A council used software to help decide key planning applications in what is believed to be the fi...
PLANNING
Jenrick outlines new proposals to reform planning process
By Laura Sharman | 12 March 2020
Developers will be able to demolish vacant buildings and turn them into new homes more quickly un...
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