Planning Magazine

England has enough land to meet the government’s objectives on development, food security and nature restoration, with just one per cent needed for “urban expansion”, according to the government’s first Land Use Framework (LUF). planningresource.co.uk/article/195233…

A former Downing Street adviser has started work as the new planning director at the housing ministry. planningresource.co.uk/article/195233…

An inspector has upheld a developer’s appeal to build up to 540 homes on a former aerodrome site in the green belt, after concluding that the site could be considered grey belt land and the scheme met the necessary “golden rules” in national policy. planningresource.co.uk/article/195232…

The government has this week published its first ever Land Use Framework (LUF). Here are seven planning-related things that you need to know about it. planningresource.co.uk/article/195228…

A volume housebuilder has submitted plans for 3,000 homes on a green belt site that was allocated but then removed from an emerging local plan. planningresource.co.uk/article/195222…

The number of planning applications submitted, decided and approved all plunged to a record low last year, new government figures reveal. planningresource.co.uk/article/195222…

Pennycook issues council ‘unprecedented’ order to add 4,200 green belt homes to draft local plan planningresource.co.uk/article/195222…

Reports of the High Court dismissing a legal challenge to consented plans for the 39-court expansion of the All England Club in Wimbledon and of a council refusing 256 homes on green belt against officer advice lead our round-up of planning news planningresource.co.uk/article/195234…

NEW Matthew Pennycook, the planning minister, has taken the “unprecedented” step of ordering a council to allocate 200 hectares of green belt land for 4,200 homes in its draft local plan The plan currently only meets 56% of the local area's housing need planningresource.co.uk/article/195222…

A planning consultancy has made three promotions in one of its city offices, including a new associate director and two planners. planningresource.co.uk/article/195184…

A planning law firm has announced a new partner and senior associate following two promotions. planningresource.co.uk/article/195184…

A planning consultancy has hired a new director and head of its south of England division from a developer with the company's former regional lead elevated to a more senior role. planningresource.co.uk/article/195184…

A select committee has expressed its disappointment and concerns at the government's rejection of several of its recommendations in a report on mitigating housebuilding’s impact on nature planningresource.co.uk/article/195189…

EXCLUSIVE: The City of London Corporation’s planning chair has said that draft national policy changes might undermine its plans to make development in the Square Mile deliver more biodiversity net gain. planningresource.co.uk/article/195194…

A local authority has granted permission for up to 13,000 homes on a brownfield site, despite the affordable housing provision being just over a third of the local policy requirement. planningresource.co.uk/article/195194…

A report that a planning committee chairman has resigned following legal advice after he told a meeting that there was no need for any more wind farm projects in his ward leads our round-up of planning news in other media. planningresource.co.uk/article/195194…

London’s deputy mayor for housing has advised elected mayors in England’s regional cities to “strategically” use the powers that they will soon be granted to intervene in planning applications. planningresource.co.uk/article/195188…

Government confirms EIA and SEA regimes to be replaced by ‘end of 2027’ planningresource.co.uk/article/195176…

A deputy mayor has told a property conference that blaming planning officers for blocking development was “like blaming the police for the laws that they enforce”. planningresource.co.uk/article/195179…

A developer owned by a housing association has submitted plans for a 7,750-home garden community in the Home Counties with 30 per cent affordable housing, more than five years after three councils first earmarked the location for a new settlement. planningresource.co.uk/article/195178…