West Midlands

Re: Generations - an interview with Jenna Langford

30.10.2019

Kieran Blaydes

Jenna Langford became 2019 RTPI Young Planner of the Year in no small part "for assisting people to take up planning as a profesison through the Planning Futures programme". Here she talks to Kieran Blaydes...

Sewage works to be transformed into 750 homes

24.10.2019

Laura Edgar

brownfield land | Housing | sandwell council | West Midlands | west midlands combined authority

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has bought former industrial land in Sandwell to turn it into a 750-home community.

How inclusive economies create distinctive places

17.10.2019

Jenna Langford

Regeneration of former industrial areas can be a platform for raising the opportunities and living standards of people who have been hit hardest by industrial decline. To achieve this, planners must take the...

Planning application submitted for £70m Alexander Stadium redevelopment

16.10.2019

Prithvi Pandya

A £70 million planning application has been submitted to Birmingham City Council to redevelop Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr.

Enforcement: ‘Mistakes were made’ over countryside party house

04.10.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has upheld enforcement action against the use of a 10-bedroom Georgian mansion in the Warwickshire countryside as an ‘events venue’, after finding that late-night ‘screaming, swearing and loud...

Appeal: Affordable home clustering scuppers Warwickshire scheme

02.10.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for 130 homes on an allocated site near Warwick after taking issue with the scheme’s layout, ruling that the ‘clear and noticeable concentration’ of affordable homes proposed...

Enforcement: Social benefits of greenhouse constitute ‘very special circumstances’

20.09.2019

Matt Moody

Community Engagement | community facility | Green Belt | very special circumstances | West Midlands

Enforcement action against a greenhouse in the garden of a listed building in Staffordshire has been quashed after an inspector found that its use by local disabled people carried greater weight than its...

An artist’s impression of the access route to the new HS2 Interchange Station and the Arden Cross development site

WMCA and Lovell set to deliver 4,000 new homes

18.09.2019

Prithvi Pandya

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, has announced a partnership between the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and Lovell Partnerships that will see more than 4,000 homes being built across the West Midlands.

Government vows to back the Midlands and the North

16.09.2019

Laura Edgar

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reaffirmed his pledge to devolve further powers to the north of England, while local government secretary Robert Jenrick has made a similar commitment to the Midlands.

WMCA to launch funding guide for developers

16.09.2019

Prithvi Pandya

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has launched a guide so that developers can receive clear guidance on how to secure funding for homes and regeneration schemes.

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