Opposition peers have defended the role of planning committees in decision-making, with one warning that “emasculating” them ...

The British Homes Awards champion the best architecture, interior design and landscaping across the UK. Launched in 1999, the ...

A report that a homeowner with decking that breached planning rules used Google Earth to prove it had been built more than ...

The High Court has quashed a planning inspector’s refusal of plans for a ten-home self-build development over a lack of ...

The planning minister Matthew Pennycook has said he expects a “sharp uptick” in planning application numbers towards the end ...

A housing department minister has said that the government is giving “consideration” to “resources and capacity in the ...

A planner who is an interim corporate director at a London borough has announced she is leaving the role at the end of the ...

Just 21 per cent of local authority planning departments in England are “fully staffed”, according to a trade union survey, ...

A planning committee chairman has been removed from his committee after a council probe found that he created the “perception ...

A council has voted to undertake a second consultation on a revised version of its draft local plan, which doubles the number ...

A report that a local authority has ordered a man to demolish an unlawfully-built £180,000 “granny flat” in his back garden ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has told MPs that neighbourhood plans can still “play an important role” in the planning ...