Latest News in South West

Base homes win consent

Communities secretary John Denham has granted planning permission for a 368-home scheme at the former RAF airbase at Little Rissing-ton in Gloucestershire.

City rejects biofuel plant

Bristol City Council's leader has called for changes to planning policy after its landmark decision to reject plans for a palm oil power station.

Bristol approves office development plan

Bristol City Council has granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the Island Site close to Temple Meads railway station.

Planning Appeal Casebook

DC Casebook: Housing: New build - Appeal ruled invalid due to non-payment

An inspector has concluded that he has no jurisdiction to determine an appeal after a Dorset council declined to determine a planning application for six flats without a fee.

In Depth

Development Management supplement

Consultation closes next Friday (19th) on a series of key consultation proposals inviting views on the government's approach to development management.

Trouble ahead for lifetime homes

Lifetime homes campaigners thought they had finally achieved the breakthrough in 2008.

The capital's empty homes challenge

The capital's empty homes challenge

It all started with George Green back in 1850. A partner in the Blackwell Shipyard, he built a number of almshouses to accommodate single women in Tower Hamlets.

Buying into waste deals

Buying into waste deals

An investigation into planning for waste facilities concludes that community incentives will be required to get round public opposition to vital national infrastructure, Huw Morris reports.

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Opinion

Gary Halman

Gary
Halman

Halman on ... placing limits on local power

The Conservatives' planning green paper has offered radical proposals for a major shake-up of the...

Anthony Fyson

Anthony
Fyson

Fyson on ... Tories' sketchy planning reforms that fail to introduce fair testing of community involvement

It is a painful irony that publication of the Conservatives' green paper Open Source Planning,...