Infrastructure - Transport

Review programme set out for HS2

21.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | grant shapps | HS2 | hs2 review | Infrastructure - Transport

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has published the ...

Appeal: 'Intimidating' road would form barrier between homes and services

19.08.2019

Matt Moody

England | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | South Holland District Council

An inspector has rejected plans for 12 self-build homes in Lincolnshire, ruling that residents who could not 'scamper across' an 'intimidating' nearby road would need a car to reach services only 2km away....

Javid announces £600m for housing

19.08.2019

Laura Edgar

Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced that up to 50,000 new homes are to be delivered in England through investment of a further £600 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF).

Government urged to consider environmental impacts of HS2

19.08.2019

Laura Edgar

The Woodland Trust has called on its supporters to lobby HS2 review chairman Douglas Oakervee, transport secretary Grant Shapps and HS2 minister Paul Maynard to consider evidence concerning the environmental impacts of the project.

Appeals round-up: 15 Clerkenwell Close reprieved as inspector overturns demolition order; Tall building rejected for harm to area and loss of LGBT+ venue

16.08.2019

Huw Morris

A round-up of planning appeals: 10 August-16 August, 2019

England round-up: Cambridgeshire councils to outsource planning application processes; Not enough is being done to address housing crisis

16.08.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 10 August-16 August, 2019

Appeal: Aberdeenshire ordered to pay full costs for unreasonable refusal of homes

15.08.2019

Huw Morris

Aberdeenshire Council | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Scotland

Aberdeenshire Council acted unreasonably in refusing a scheme to build 121 homes and must pay an appellant’s full costs, a reporter has decided.

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Work paused on Hereford bypass

14.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Herefordshire | Infrastructure - Transport | road investment

Herefordshire County Council has suspended work on the £129 million Hereford bypass and Southern link road following a change in administration.

Wales’s NDF identifies locations for homes and renewable energy

07.08.2019

Laura Edgar

Welsh housing minister Julie James has published a consultation on the draft National Development Framework, a 20-year plan that sets out the type of development needed to help society be ‘sustainable and prosperous’.

Application for sleeper facility submitted for Bescot

05.08.2019

Laura Edgar

Infrastructure - Transport | Network Rail | West Midlands

Network Rail has submitted a planning application for a railway sleeper production facility in Bescot.

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