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Supreme Court to rule on controversial green belt quarry plan

12.02.2019

Huw Morris

Green Belt | NPPF | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Yorkshire

The Supreme Court is to hear an appeal in a long-running dispute over the visual impacts of a planned quarry extension in the green belt.

Government should take planning system ‘more seriously’

08.02.2019

Laura Edgar

A new National Audit Office (NAO) report has found that the government’s planning system is ‘underperforming’ and unable to demonstrate how it can deliver 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.

25% of authorities still without local plan, shows research

28.01.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | Lichfields | NPPF | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood

A quarter of local authorities in England have not submitted a local plan, while more than half of those adopted under the 2012 National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will need to be reviewed within the next two years.

Joined-up planning is the key to better journeys

24.01.2019

Darren Shirley

The infrastructure that supports physical journeys needs to undergo a revolution if the promises of seamless journeys supported by smart digital journey planning is to be realised, argues ...

NPPF 2.0 and viability: Problem solved?

18.01.2019

Oliver Salisbury

The revised NPPF’s efforts to address problems around viability calculations are well-intended but flawed, argues Oliver Salisbury

Appeal: Holiday cabins refused at Warwickshire fishery

10.01.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused permission for two holiday cabins to provide overnight accommodation at a popular fishery because of harm to green belt openness – despite agreeing that they would be ‘an...

Character-based development can resolve an age-old planning struggle

08.01.2019

Nairita Chakraborty

Urban characterisation can help to resolve the planning struggles, explains Nairita Chakraborty.

Campaigners challenge NPPF in court

19.12.2018

Laura Edgar

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has begun a challenge in the High Court to the National Planning Policy Framework, deeming it unlawful.

Appeal: Tourist accommodation at alpaca farm would be inappropriate

14.12.2018

Matt Moody

A worker’s dwelling at an alpaca farm subject to a temporary permission cannot be permanently retained as ‘guest accommodation’ in the green belt because it would amount to inappropriate...

Appeal: Smaller building would have greater ‘spatial presence’

06.12.2018

Matt Moody

A plan to replace a garden workshop building in Dorset with a holiday home has been blocked for harm to green belt openness, after an inspector found that the new building would have a greater ‘spatial...

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