Coronavirus

Planning is ‘essential’ to children’s recovery after Covid-19

22.07.2021

Huw Morris

Planners should engage children and young people at an early stage within policies, plans and developments rather than seeing them as an ‘add-on’ later, according to RTPI guidance.

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Scotland’s DPEA says it will emerge from Covid-19 with no casework backlog

16.07.2021

Roger Milne

Coronavirus | Development Management & Enforcement | DPEA | planning appeals | Scotland

Despite the restrictions and problems posed by the Covid-19 outbreak, the Scottish Government’s Planning and Appeals Division (DPEA) looks set to emerge with no backlog of casework, according to interim chief reporter Scott M. Ferrie.

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Local authorities to be given CPO powers to renew derelict buildings to transform towns

15.07.2021

Laura Edgar

Local authorities in England will be given compulsory purchase order powers (CPO) to take over and transform derelict buildings and convert them into homes if property owners stall on regeneration plans.

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Nearly 64,000 planning applications submitted in June

15.07.2021

Laura Edgar

In June 2021, 63,873 planning applications in England and Wales were submitted to the Planning Portal – 17 per cent more than the number lodged in June 2020.

PINS falls short of ministerial targets for appeal decisions last year

12.07.2021

Laura Edgar

The number of appeals decided by the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) in 2020/21 within the ministerial target declined in comparison with 2019/20, according to the appeals body’s latest annual report.

Irish regulator warns of ‘seriously overstretched’ council planning departments

05.07.2021

Roger Milne

Many local authority planning departments are ‘seriously overstretched’, Ireland’s independent planning watchdog has warned.

Cultural and heritage organisations can apply to receive funding

30.06.2021

Laura Edgar

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has announced that the final £300 million of the government’s £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund will open for applications ‘shortly’.

Nearly 35,000 homes completed by Homes England last year

28.06.2021

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | Coronavirus | England | homes england | Housing

Homes England's various housing programmes saw the completion of 34,995 homes between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021.

Levelling-up proposals must be reconnected to devolution

21.06.2021

Laura Edgar

A report has called for a new settlement for place that reconnects the government’s levelling-up ambitions with the decentralisation of power in England.

Irish housing minister Darragh-O 'Brien / Damien Storan, Shutterstock_1782921476

Minister makes more time for key elements of planning system

11.06.2021

Roger Milne

Coronavirus | Darragh O’Brien | Housing | Ireland

Media reports this week indicate that housing minister Darragh O’Brien is pressing ahead with new legislation that would give councils more time to complete development plans and an extra period for builders to complete schemes where planning permissions are due to expire.

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