An inspector had regard to judicial authority on the interpretation and distinction between uses falling within use classes C2 and C3, to decide a small-scale care home for young children would be a ...

An inspector had regard to judicial authority on the interpretation and distinction between uses falling within use classes C2 and C3, to decide a small-scale care home for young children would be a ...

The potential risk to buried archaeological remains contributed to an inspector’s decision to dismiss an appeal seeking outline permission for three houses on farmland outside a Derbyshire village.

Plans to drain surface water into a foul sewer led an inspector to reject a proposal for 31 units of specialist retirement living accommodation in a Sussex town.

A highly-rated planning solicitor and partner is leaving her law firm after 14 years. Our subscription is packed with ...

A council that has not adopted a local plan in more than 25 years has vowed not to allocate any green belt land in its ...

The housing ministry has updated its plan-making guidance to provide “clarification” on how the transitional arrangements in ...

A report that a council will file a complaint over the way in which a planning inspector rejected its draft local plan leads ...

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision to dismiss a legal challenge taken by a member of countryside campaign ...

The government has tabled a bill that would give elected mayors strategic planning powers similar to those exercised by the ...

Tree preservation orders are not necessarily the answer to preventing rogue tree-felling, says our columnist, who also has ...

A 100MW battery energy storage system has been permitted to locate within the green belt surrounding a historic Yorkshire city despite a finding that the site did not comprise grey belt land.