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Sainsbury's accuses council planning officer of 'doctoring' store extension plans
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has claimed a planning officer "doctored" drawings submitted as part of an application to extend one of its stores.
Spring Statement: Brokenshire confirms introduction of town centre PD right changes
The government will bring forward most of its controversial package of new permitted development (PD) rights and use class flexibilities that aim to boost ailing high streets, but it is still considering proposals to allow office demolition for new homes, housing secretary James Brokenshire announced this afternoon.
Spring Statement: Government to adopt biodiversity net gain policy
Developers in England will be required to show that projects have a positive impact on biodiversity to secure planning permission, the government has confirmed.
New set of guidance updates allow councils to pool CIL receipts across boundaries
Measures allowing groups of charging authorities to pool their community infrastructure levies (CIL) for "strategic infrastructure projects that have cross-boundary benefits" are among a series of changes that have been introduced in revised Planning Practice Guidance (PPG).
Cheshire town's neighbourhood plan rejected at referendum by just 22 votes
A neighbourhood plan covering the town of Middlewich in Cheshire has been refused at referendum on a margin of just 22 votes, becoming only the third such plan in the country to be defeated at the polls.
Other key stories
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Reading Council blasts Brokenshire and PINS over 'unacceptable' local plan delay
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Plans submitted for 8,500-home Otterpool Park 'garden town' in Kent
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Kensington and Chelsea planning chief appointed as PINS director
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Spring Statement: Green paper aiming to speed up planning decisions promised later this year
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Spring Statement: New housing diversity guidance promised in government's Letwin response
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Inspector calls for 11 allocations for 1,000 homes to be cut from Yorkshire plan
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Inspector finds special circumstances to justify new homes in Essex green belt
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The places that have shared £717 million of Housing Infrastructure Fund money
- Principal Planning Consultant (Policy) Capita Manchester/Salford (North West) or Breckland or North Tyneside or Barnet (North London)
- Planning Officer Plymouth City Council Plymouth, Devon
- Principal Major Developments Officer Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
- Senior Planning Enforcement Officer London Borough of Lambeth Lambeth, London (Greater)
- P/T Senior Planning Officer (Minerals & Waste) Lewis Davey Shefford, Bedfordshire, Flex Working
- Principal Planning Consultant (Policy) Capita Manchester/Salford (North West) or Breckland or North Tyneside or Barnet (North London)
- Planning Officer Plymouth City Council Plymouth, Devon
- Principal Major Developments Officer Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
- Senior Planning Enforcement Officer London Borough of Lambeth Lambeth, London (Greater)
- P/T Senior Planning Officer (Minerals & Waste) Lewis Davey Shefford, Bedfordshire, Flex Working