Huw Morris

South Cambridgeshire District Council is urging the government to withdraw a best value notice issued over its four-day week policy, which had delivered major improvements to the planning service.

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 13 August 2024

Planning permission has been granted for a telecommunications tower and antennae in an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) near Harrogate after an inspector decided that the proposal would bring considerable benefits to the public.

Plans to change agricultural and commercial land in the green belt at Woking into five football pitches have been dismissed for encroaching on the countryside while contravening local and national policy.

Planning permission has been granted to two applications to clear a horticultural nursery and build homes on a site in the Metropolitan Green Belt at Sevenoaks.

Norfolk County Council has withdrawn its planning application for a major road project following objections by Natural England to the scheme’s measures for conserving bat populations.

Three-quarters of London boroughs do not have plans for developing homes that are both accessible and affordable, new research reveals.

The government has rejected Dorset County Council’s plea to intervene in the granting of planning permission for a controversial waste incinerator.

Data that is more than 80 years old is being used to classify and protect England’s most valuable farmland and is potentially undermining the UK’s ability to grow its own food, warn countryside campaigners.

lans for eight self-build homes on a grey belt site in the West Midlands have been rejected after an inspector decided that the scheme did not meet any of the exceptions criteria set by national policy.