local plans

Legal briefs: Bord admits it bungled fast-track Dublin homes approval; Essex council sees off local plan challenge

06.07.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 30 June-6 July, 2018

Quartermain to assess three councils over lack of local plan

26.03.2018

Laura Edgar

England’s chief planner will visit three of the 15 councils threatened with intervention for not compiling a local plan in order to assess whether the government should take over the process.

43% of councils yet to publish draft local plan / iStock

Report: 43% of councils yet to publish draft local plan

10.04.2017

Laura Edgar

New research has suggested that 36 per cent of planning authorities have seen a local plan through examination to adoption, but 43 per cent have not even published a draft local plan.

Report: Local plans failing to address climate change

30.11.2016

Laura Edgar

Most post-2012 local plans in England are failing to cut carbon emissions and plan for the scale of weather predicted over future years.

RTPI launches 16 ways to tackle housing crisis

04.11.2016

Laura Edgar

The RTPI has launched a campaign, 16 Ways in 16 Days, outlining it's recommendations for tackling the housing crisis in England.

Debate: Engaging communities in plan and place-making

21.01.2016

Laura Edgar

At a #planning4people summit held by the Town and Country Planning Association, speakers Helen Hayes MP, John Howell OBE MP, and Baroness Kate Parminter stressed the importance of engaging communities in plan and place-making.

Appeal: 87 dwellings approved for Worcestershire Hunt site

03.12.2015

Martha Harris

Housing | local plans | UK

Permission has been granted to developer David Wilson Homes (Mercia) for a residential development in Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire, on 4.5 hectares of land used primarily for kennels, stables and grazing...