Prior approval for the construction of an additional storey containing five flats on a residential block in south-west London was denied because the appellant was unable to demonstrate occupiers would ...

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court judgment rejecting a council’s argument that a floating hotel constitutes a building for the purposes of charging the community infrastructure levy (CIL). A ...

Changes to a planning consent should be compatible with the conditions attached to the original permission, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Nicholas Boys Smith’s new unit has been talked up by ministers, but faces a massive job for a small and newly-formed team.

A campaign group has lodged a legal challenge against an inspector’s decision to approve a 94-hectare solar farm on high-grade farmland on grounds including that the inspector misinterpreted a ...

A top-rated planning silk and a former president of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) are among those awarded New Year ...

Supermarket giant Tesco has been hit with £22,266 in fines and costs after failing to comply with a London borough’s enforcement notice ordering it to stop breaching a planning condition relating to ...

The new government fulfilled or implemented its manifesto commitments on planning reform in its first six months, and - now ...

Prior approval under Class A of Part 20 of Schedule 2 of the General Permitted Development Order (GPDO) 2015 has been withheld for the construction of an additional storey on top of a block of flats ...

The widely predicted Labour government must allow councils to protect their planning services by raising their fees for householder planning applications, rather than just hoping that things can only ...

A report that HS2 chief executive Mark Wild has blamed failure to control costs on a “rush to start” construction leads our daily round-up of planning news in other media.

by Samantha Eckford, David Blackman, Joey Gardiner, Ben Kochan and Toby Porter ...