Planning cases

Housing minister Grant Shapps has set out plans to allow communities to ballot whether to increase their housing by 10% without planning consent

English Heritage's annual register reveals that the rate at which historic buildings are being rescued is slowing fast.

Changes to planning guidance and local plans and how they will affect the brownfield community is one of the industry’s current biggest concerns

The communities secretary has revoked English regional strategies.

Planners are cautious about the end of regional planning but countryside campaigners, who are supposed to be the reason for the policy, fear a vacuum in greenfield and brownfield policy.

A smart growth approach will reduce municipal costs and offset the greater cost of brownfield development, says report

Two tower blocks in Wandsworth have been turned down as it would not have been possible to evacuate residents if there was an accident at the next door gas holder.

The Government says the new partnerships would tackle strategic economic leadership, but many functions will be centralised in Whitehall

Lowering residential density will apparently mean more "family" homes.