The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has announced that it won’t issue any findings on the soundness or legal compliance of local ...

An inspector has allowed a housebuilder’s appeal for 281 homes on an unallocated greenfield site, after the authority ...

A claim by a builders’ trade body that a rise in planning application fees will push some developers “out of housebuilding” ...

A planner who played a leading role in the Olympic Delivery Authority has stepped down as chair of multi-disciplinary ...

A report that a government agency has dropped an objection that was holding up plans for 18,000 homes around Oxford due to ...

A council has refused permission for a solar farm that would result in the loss of 44 hectares of best and most versatile (BMV) agricultural land on the green belt, despite officers recommending the ...

A planning officer at a Hertfordshire council wrongly approved plans for a home extension when intending to refuse it due to ...

A planning inspector has ordered a council to pay costs to an NHS trust over delays to a planning application involving 22 ...

Planning inspectors have voiced "significant concerns" about a council’s inclusion of an "area of search" for a new community ...

Fears over crime and anti-social behaviour arising from a proposed adult gaming centre in Birmingham have been overruled. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial below.

Some 11 councils are underperforming under the government’s ‘special measures’ programme for the quality of their planning decision-making in the latest official two-year assessment period, new ...

The government published its spring statement yesterday (26 March). Below, we summarise the key reaction from planning and ...