The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) will explore changes to planning requirements for power lines on wood ...

The planning minister has allowed a recovered appeal for a 72,000 square metre data centre on green belt, despite disagreeing with an inspector’s assertion that the site did not meet the new ‘grey ...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its English Devolution Bill, which confirms ...

Inspectors have found an authority’s plan to be sound subject to a 9.5 per cent increase in its housing requirement over the ...

An inspector has upheld a developer’s appeal to build up to 50 homes on an unallocated site in the open countryside, after ...

The deputy prime minister has told MPs she is “confident” the government can build 1.5 million homes this parliament, but has ...

A report that a council is proposing restricting the number of public speakers on applications at planning committees to ...

A council should “fundamentally overhaul” its planning committee, a review by a local government advisory body has ...

In a recovered appeal the secretary of state has agreed with her inspector's recommendation and granted outline permission for the redevelopment of a former landfill site to comprise a data centre ...

The planning minister Matthew Pennycook has allowed a land promoter's appeal over plans for a 1,200-home scheme on farming ...

Energy secretary Ed Miliband has granted a development consent order (DCO) for a 96-turbine wind farm off the Welsh coast, in ...

A local authority has proposed redefining four villages as towns in order to “maintain the integrity of the borough’s green ...