A council that has not adopted a local plan in more than 25 years has vowed not to allocate any green belt land in its ...

An inspector had regard to judicial authority on the interpretation and distinction between uses falling within use classes C2 and C3, to decide a small-scale care home for young children would be a ...

The housing ministry has updated its plan-making guidance to provide “clarification” on how the transitional arrangements in ...

An inspector had regard to judicial authority on the interpretation and distinction between uses falling within use classes C2 and C3, to decide a small-scale care home for young children would be a ...

A highly-rated planning solicitor and partner is leaving her law firm after 14 years. Our subscription is packed with ...

A report that a council will file a complaint over the way in which a planning inspector rejected its draft local plan leads ...

The potential risk to buried archaeological remains contributed to an inspector’s decision to dismiss an appeal seeking outline permission for three houses on farmland outside a Derbyshire village.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision to dismiss a legal challenge taken by a member of countryside campaign ...

Plans to drain surface water into a foul sewer led an inspector to reject a proposal for 31 units of specialist retirement living accommodation in a Sussex town.

The government has tabled a bill that would give elected mayors strategic planning powers similar to those exercised by the ...

A council has published the final draft version of its long-awaited local plan for consultation, which proposes including a ...

A new legal duty relating to national landscapes does not mean that any proposal which would have landscape impacts would have to be refused, a judge has ruled.