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Watford mayor urges Brokenshire to review PD rights following windowless flats approval
Watford's elected mayor has written to housing secretary James Brokenshire urging him to review residential permitted development (PD) rights, saying it "beggars belief" that plans to convert an industrial building into a housing scheme featuring windowless flats were allowed on appeal.
540-home 12-storey mixed-use scheme approved in Reading town centre
A major mixed-use development including 538 homes and two 12-storey tower blocks has been approved for a key site in Reading town centre, despite the proposal falling short of local affordable housing requirements.
Judge quashes Wembley mosque consent after finding 'fundamental defects' in inspector's decision
The High Court has overturned an appeal decision granting retrospective permission for a mosque that had been operating unlawfully on a builder's yard in north London, after the judge found the inspector had made a "fundamental defect" by not properly considering the "highly contentious planning issues" involved.
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Leeds gives green light to 701 homes on greenfield site
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Almost half of councils think homes created through PD rights are 'threat to health and wellbeing'
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South Oxfordshire ducks local plan withdrawal decision after £218m infrastructure cash warning
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Local Plan Watch: Fall in local plans sent for examination
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Why planning authorities may struggle to implement government advisors' plans to beautify building
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Why a council is asking residents if they agree with the standard method of assessing housing need
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How a council's attempt to overturn an inspector's assessment of its housing land supply foundered in court
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10 key things that happened this week
- Planning Manager - Snowdonia National Park Snowdonia National Park Authority Penrhyndeudraeth
- Principal Planner South Kesteven District Council Council Offices, St Peters Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire
- Senior Development Management Officer East Northamptonshire Council Thrapston, Kettering
- Senior Planning Officer (Planning Policy) Grade: H Epping Forest District Council Epping, Essex
- Planning Consultant | 100% flexible working | Quasi-consultancy/developer | Full or Part time Lewis Davey Any location if home working - or Northampton office base if preferred
Latest Features & Analysis
CIL Watch: who's charging what?
Want to know whether your local authority has published Community Infrastructure Levy proposals? Our live table includes the latest details of councils' levy plans, including a breakdown of charges by development type.
Briefing: How to ensure key design principles are embedded in planning process
Planners will need to become familiarised with key design principles when assessing proposals, say David Birkbeck and Dr Stefan Kruczkowski.
How joint strategic plans are progressing across England, and the obstacles that they face
A new generation of sub-regional strategic plans are being prepared in five different areas of England. But their progress faces a number of hurdles, Adam Branson finds.
How we did it: Winning consent for a 1,000-capacity mosque
Early dialogue and quality design helped to overcome challenges to approval for this mosque in Cambridge, writes Colin Marrs.
Latest Comment
Controversy is not new but passions now run higher, by Graeme Bell
Theresa May's valedictory comments to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg - "I underestimated people's entrenched positions" - are unlikely to be voiced by anyone who has had recent experience of planning.
The public needs to see that the standard method is free from political tinkering, by Richard Garlick
Plenty of planning authorities will be finding the figures generated by the government's standard method for assessing housing need uncomfortably large.
The rise of the tech giant developer, by Euan Mills
The partnership between the City of Toronto and Google's Sidewalk Labs is one of the most interesting examples of a technology company moving into property development. Two years ago, Sidewalk Labs won a proposal to develop just under five hectares of Toronto's eastern waterfront.
The perils of prioritising tourism, by Cliff Hague
Venice, Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam, Edinburgh. These are places identified by the website CNN Travel as hotspots for "overtourism". Last year the Oxford English Dictionary made overtourism one of its words of the year. So what does it mean for planning, placemaking and urban conservation?
Legal Viewpoint: Assessing outdated policies in framework relevance test
Paragraph 11(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) triggers a tilted balance in favour of sustainable development where there are no relevant development plan policies or where those policies "most important for determining the application are out of date".
Both candidates seem likely to be pro-development Prime Ministers, by Richard Garlick
Firm policy commitments from the two remaining Tory leadership candidates have been thin on the ground.
Latest CIL Watch
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Chiltern and South Bucks Councils - Joint CIL draft charging schedule published
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Stevenage - CIL draft charging schedule published
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Canterbury City Council - CIL draft charging schedule submitted for examination
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Arun Council - CIL draft charging schedule published
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London Legacy Development Corporation - CIL draft charging schedule submitted for examination
Policy News & Updates
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Parliament approves government's CIL and section 106 changes
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The Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2019
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Creating space for beauty: interim report
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Government keeps open mind on number of new underground nuclear storage facilities
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Government Beauty Commission set to launch interim report tomorrow, MHCLG official reveals