called-in decision

The housing secretary has taken his inspector’s advice to approve a regeneration scheme in West London after negotiations with the Mayor of London led the developer to double the scheme’s affordable housing...

Plans for two interlinked skyscrapers on the site of Vauxhall bus station in London can go ahead, after the housing secretary approved the scheme created by the practice of the late architect Zaha Hadid....

The Welsh housing minister has rejected her inspector’s advice that ‘exceptional circumstances’ justified plans for 440 homes in an area of high flood risk near Pontypridd, citing the ‘precautionary approach...

After calling in plans to build 500 homes on green belt land in West Yorkshire, the housing secretary has refused permission against the advice of his inspector, despite the council’s support for the scheme...