Ex-council assistant planning director and former planning officer to stand trial next year on city hall bribery and misconduct charges

Local elections results 2025 and the planning implications - live news and reaction (updated)

Inspectors tell council to boost draft plan’s housing target by over half to fix ‘unsound’ strategy

Why commercial-to-residential permitted development applications have hit a record high

Why some councils are trying to pull out of joint planning efforts and what this means for the government’s strategic planning push

How the most recent NPPF revisions change the system: 10. Infrastructure, supporting healthy communities and transport

How the most recent NPPF revisions change the system: 9. Climate change, clean energy and flood risk

How the most recent NPPF revisions change the system: 8. Economic development

How the most recent NPPF revisions change the system: 7. Affordable housing

How the most recent NPPF revisions change the system: 6. Strategic planning

33 things you need to know about the final version of the revised NPPF

Government announces £3 million boost for council planning departments and £1 million for statutory consultees

100 areas of England bid for new town status, government reveals, with ministers ‘expected to choose about 12’

MHCLG changes NPPF text on ‘inappropriate’ green belt development

Starmer vows to ‘refresh’ nuclear power planning policies to allow more projects to come forward

Government says proposed Land Use Framework will ‘interact’ with but not ‘replace’ planning system

Chancellor revives government support for Oxford-Cambridge ‘growth corridor’ and reveals new town interest

Government says it will publish ‘roadmap’ for delivery of new environment assessment system in ‘coming months

Chancellor announces moratorium on new statutory consultees and promises review of system to 'slash planning system red tape'

Government proposes making NSIP consultations ‘less burdensome’ and reviewing policy statements every five years

Government confirms plans to replace requirement for developers to secure site-specific environmental improvements with centralised fund (updated)

The councils that employed the most planners, and with the most planning vacancies, 2023/24

The authorities that earned the most income 2023/24

The authorities with the largest development management workload 2023/24

The authorities that saw the most appeals decided 2023/24

The councils that were the most active enforcers in 2023/24

The Planning Consultancy Market Report 2024: Overview

The biggest and fastest-growing planning consultants 2024

The highest-earning consultants 2023/24

The most in-demand skills in planning consultancy

The A-Z of planning consultancy fee rates 2024

Local Plan Watch: Plan found sound after council finds sites for 433 extra homes ‘with great reluctance’ to address inspector’s concerns

Housing Land Supply Watch: Council’s ten-year-plus housing pipeline plummets 67% after requirement more than doubles

Neighbourhood Watch: Parish accuses district council of ‘threat’ to force removal of green space allocation from neighbourhood plan

Housing Land Supply Watch: Nearly half of councils cannot show a five-year housing land supply pipeline, Planning’s updated index reveals

Housing Land Supply Watch: Inspector allows appeal for 270 countryside homes after council concedes it has lost five-year supply

Local Plan Watch: Campaign group threatens legal challenge against ‘unlawful’ 2,300-home allocation in adopted local plan

Housing Land Supply Watch: Council reveals it has lost five-year housing land supply after local need soars by 169%

CIL Watch: The five authorities with the most unspent CIL funds accumulated per household

Room 106, ep140: Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to national guidance updates

Local Plan Watch: ‘UK’s first’ brownfield-only local plan adopted with 1,040 more homes than in submitted draft

Room 106, ep143: The places where the local elections are most likely to impact planning and development

Room 106, ep142: The councils with the most grey belt land in England

Room 106, ep141: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Room 106, ep139: The planning news from the Spring Statement plus the Planning and Infrastructure Bill's second reading

Room 106, ep138: How a council introduced a four-day working week that improved its planning performance

Room 106, ep137: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Room 106, ep136: Your 25-minute guide to the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Ex-council assistant planning director and former planning officer to stand trial next year on city hall bribery and misconduct charges

Inspectors raise ‘particular concerns’ about plan’s housing proposals, including 3,930-home garden village allocation

Court of Appeal quashes ‘unlawful’ planning permission for 473 homes on farmland and orders council to pay up to £70,000 in costs

Second council avoids more severe housing delivery test penalty after persuading government to ‘recalculate’ its score

The implications of the government’s shake-up of how developers compensate for environmental impact

Local elections results 2025 and the planning implications - live news and reaction (updated)

Legal Viewpoint: High Court rules on postponement of public inquiry into ‘wonky pub’ appeal

Legal Viewpoint: High Court rules on inspector's use of Google Street View to determine unlawful use of land

Legal Viewpoint: Community Infrastructure Levy Stop notices – there’s no limit

Legal Viewpoint: High Court rules on duty to have ‘due regard’ to environmental principles

Legal Viewpoint: Can the quashing of pre-commencement conditions invalidate permission implementation?

Legal Viewpoint: Consultation errors ruled not to justify out of time legal challenge

Legal Viewpoint: Court of Appeal clarifies the scope of section 73 variations

Legal Viewpoint: Farnham – a helpful reminder on service and consideration of decision letters

Legal Viewpoint: Appeal Court provides commentary on when a use may be considered ancillary

Legal Viewpoint: Court clarifies procedural fairness obligations following consent order examinations

How the planning system is treating ... prisons

Whatever happened to biodiversity net gain?

What the return of onshore wind power means for the planning system

How councils are acting in response to Labour’s proposed planning changes

The main planning issues in the new government’s in-tray

How the system is treating ... solar farms

Where Labour could find its promised grey belt sites for new housing

How the system is treating ... data centres