In December, the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) came into immediate effect, introducing the most ...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a fresh effort by retail giant Tesco to block plans by rival superstore Lidl to open a new ...

The government’s “oppositional approach” to people who oppose development in their area is “backfiring” as the proportion of ...

A report that a planning inspector has ordered a couple to demolish a three-bedroom £1 million home that they "secretly" ...

A planning inspector has allowed a housebuilder's plans for up to 90 homes on a 'green wedge' site that the local authority ...

An examiner has backed a town council’s proposal to cut the number of housing sites in its draft neighbourhood plan from five ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner has told local planning authorities to “raise their game with up-to-date local plans” and has ...

A report that a council is launching a legal challenge against a planning inspector’s approval of 315 homes after a fire ...

A parish council has succeeded in having a unitary authority's planning permission for a 100-home scheme quashed by the High ...

A planning inspector has upheld a council’s enforcement notice requiring a homeowner to destroy an unlawfully-built basement ...

Whitehall departments and agencies seeking to make use of two new fast-track planning application routes for government bodies that bypass local authorities will have to demonstrate why they consider ...

The High Court has rejected an effort to overturn a council’s planning permission for an eight-storey student housing block, ...