Latest News in Yorkshire and Humber

Borough bids to end delays

Scarborough's planning service has been streamlined in a bid to reduce delays in handling applications.

Park calls for housing sites

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has asked landowners to put forward sites that could help ease affordable housing demand.

Turley seals colliery plan

Turley Associates has advised on proposals for a shopping and neighbourhood centre at a key regeneration site in the Dearne Valley, South Yorkshire.

Planning Appeal Casebook

DC Casebook: Mineral Development - Extraction for track construction refused

The temporary reopening of a limestone quarry in North Yorkshire for a farmer to improve tracks on his land has been rejected, with use of material from an existing facility found more acceptable.

In Depth

Skill push gains impetus

Ministers have recognised the need to plug the skills gap in response to a select committee report but still have some way to go to sell planning as a career, Domenic Donatantonio finds.

Legal Report - Claimants struggle with meaning of promptness

Last October's Court of Appeal ruling in Finn-Kelcey v Milton Keynes Council and MK Windfarm Ltd [2008] has reopened the old chestnut of the time limit for issuing judicial review proceedings.

Transport pace-setter

MVA Consultancy chief executive Nigel Ash believes that the transport planning sector will continue to thrive and his firm expand despite the worldwide slowdown, Vicki Shiel reports.

Rocks and hard places

Despite the current downturn, economic resilience and job creation can still be pursued without setting aside vital planning objectives for sustainable development, Liane Hartley argues.