A specialist care home has been ruled to be a form of major housing development to which the ‘golden rules’ for green belt development apply. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial below.

Plans for 100 homes as part of the conversion of a delisted former rectory in Devon have been approved in order to boost housing supply in the area. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial ...

The High Court has dismissed a developer's claim that a minister misinterpreted heritage policy in refusing plans for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial ...

The High Court has endorsed an inspector’s decision to allow a 92-hectare solar farm scheme in Nottinghamshire which involved ‘overplanting’. If you haven’t got access, please take a trial below.

Planning authorities in England with local plan policies that require 30 per cent or more of most housing schemes to be ...

A planning committee chairman has been removed from his committee after a council probe found that he created the “perception ...

A housing department minister has said that the government is giving “consideration” to “resources and capacity in the ...

A Conservative member of the House of Lords has warned that the proposed nature recovery measures in the government’s ...

A report that a local authority has ordered a man to demolish an unlawfully-built £180,000 “granny flat” in his back garden ...

A report that a homeowner with decking that breached planning rules used Google Earth to prove it had been built more than ...

The High Court has quashed a planning inspector’s refusal of plans for a ten-home self-build development over a lack of ...

An inspector has allowed outline plans for up to 650 homes on unallocated greenfield land, after finding that the scheme’s benefits, including new housing in an area with a land supply shortfall, ...