Reform

Renaissance plan: Why planners need to radically change their practice

27.05.2021

Jonathan Smales

Planning should be integral to efforts to save the planet, says Jonathan Smales. But first it needs to become a ‘renaissance discipline’, one in which its practitioners radically change the way they practice...

Judicial review gains ground

01.03.2014

Duncan Field

Judicial review | Legal | Local plans | Reform | UK

The government has focused a lot of attention on judicial review of planning decisions and introduced reforms intended to make it harder to initiate proceedings and speed up the judicial review process....

Blog: Improve councils’ skills and resources to avoid more legislation

01.02.2014

Marnix Elsenaar

Nick Boles asked the development industry to suggest how the planning system can be improved without new legislation.

Reform factor

01.02.2014

Huw Morris

Cymru | Housing | Infrastructure | Reform

An independent planning system for Wales has taken a significant step forward. The Planner looks at the Welsh government’s latest proposals

A Fresh Pair of Eyes

01.02.2014

Robert Taylor

Business & Enterprise | Interview | Planner-interview | Reform | Scotland

Derek Mackay is spearheading Scotland’s planning reforms. The planning minister tells The Planner how quality decisions will be the hallmark of the new regime

Back to Durkan’s drawing board

01.01.2014

Legal | Local plans | Northern Ireland | Reform

Mark H Durkan’s decision to withdraw Northern Ireland’s putative planning bill in October has been dramatised by the media as a bombshell at best and a catastrophe at worst.

Planning for Growth is on life support – what will resuscitate it?

01.11.2013

England | Local plans | Reform | Rural | Transport

The first item on the agenda at the Royal Town Planning Institute Young Planners’ Conference may have been ominous but spirits were high.

Peer pressure

01.11.2013

Mark Smulian

Not content with ploughing through reams of national planning policy guidance to update it, chair of the National Housing Federation Lord Taylor is on a mission to...

JR Reforms: Rapid reviews

01.10.2013

Caroline Bywater

Blog | Business & Enterprise | Legal | Reform | UK

July saw the time limit for starting planning-related judicial reviews (JRs) reduced from three months to six weeks, in an effort to add certainty to the industry and kick-start development.

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JR Reforms: Ministerial oversight

01.10.2013

Martin Goodall

Blog | Infrastructure | Legal | Reform | UK

In an article for the Daily Mail, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling called for further restrictions on the right to apply to the High Court for the judicial review of ministerial decisions on planning and...

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