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Islington launches High Court student halls challenge
21 May 2012The London Borough of Islington has launched a High Court challenge against a planning inspector's approval for a 475-room student residence it says is contrary to policies contained in its core strategy planning document.
York approves out of town stadium retail scheme
18 May 2012York city councillors approved a controversial out of town retail and stadium scheme last night after the longest planning meeting the authority has ever held.
Norfolk turbine High Court fight begins
15 May 2012An energy company has taken its fight to build four wind turbines near the Norfolk Broads National Park to the High Court, claiming national climate change targets should trump local landscape policies.
Joint handling proposed for rights of way
15 May 2012Planning applications and associated changes to rights of way could be considered in tandem under consultative proposals released yesterday.
No call-in for Yorkshire town centre retail scheme
15 May 2012Communities secretary Eric Pickles has decided not to call in an application for a retail-led scheme in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
Latest Casebook news
- In Focus - Lodge extension found at odds with heritage aims
- Woodland mast backed as alternatives lacking
- Judge endorses council tower design appraisal
- Forum
- Communication failure leads to court upset
- Council wins backing in slurry pit arguments
- Lifetime home standard met in revised scheme
- Homes turned down due to farm buildings loss
- Roller shutter agreed necessary to safeguard shop unit security
- Notice struck down after boat found to be land use
- Extension in green belt ruled disproportionate
- Roof rebuild lays barn conversion open to rural restraint policies
- Leisure park justified by local economic benefit
- Garage extension refused as height found to exceed permitted rights
- Shisha smoking at restaurant held use change but permission granted
Features
A pragmatic president
18 May 2012The RTPI president says he is satisfied that the institute was effective in making changes to the NPPF, and the focus is now on supporting councils in straitened times.
History shapers
18 May 2012Most conservation experts agree that the new national planning policy retains robust measures needed to protect England's heritage. But the policy puts pressure on councils to do the detail - and rapidly. Susanna Millar reports.
Planners celebrate Planning's 40th birthday
10 May 2012Planning magazine celebrated its 40th birthday at an event in London last week.
Then & now
04 May 201240 years on from the first issue of Planning, Graeme Bell looks back at how the role and day-to-day experience of the planner has changed.
Building without blocks
04 May 2012The Berkeley boss welcomes the new national planning policy regime but insists it will only work as intended if attitudes change and the appeals system is consistent, quick and properly enforced.
Opinion
In Context - Local identity is a national stew
18 May 2012The massive thumbs down that electors in most major cities gave to the idea of local elected mayors two weeks ago was a huge governmental own goal.
Efforts begin to fill the guidance gap
18 May 2012The Planning for Climate Change guidance for councils published by the Town and Country Planning Association on behalf of the Planning & Climate Change Coalition (PCCC) poses predictable questions about the status of unofficial interpretations of gov...
Our centres face a flexible future
18 May 2012We are putting the finishing touches to the draft opportunity area planning framework for Croydon town centre, developed with the London mayor to supplement the London Plan.
GOD shines light on planning critique flaws
18 May 2012Richard Garlick : It may not have seemed like it at the time, but it transpires that the planning system had a sympathiser at the top of the civil service during the latter days of the Labour administration and the early years of the coalition govern...
National Planning Policy Framework: a net gain for nature
10 May 2012As the dust settles on the NPPF controversy, and planners around the country are getting to grips with the detail of the NPPF, what does it mean for nature?
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