The promoter of a 1,200 homes urban extension in Warrington has convinced the High Court that a decision letter from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government was so muddled that a planning inspector’s recommended refusal of planning permission should be overturned.

Arun District Council has passed a motion expressing no confidence its own local plan after a change of administration, amid concern at the impact of climate change on the coastal plain.

Two councils affected by planning problems from nitrate pollution in the Solent are adopting mitigation measures to allow development to continue.

Environmental law charity ClientEarth has written to 100 local authorities across England to warn that they will violate their legal obligations and risk legal challenge if they do not introduce proper climate change plans.

A residential developer has said it will “vigorously oppose” an attempt at crowdfunded legal action against a project in west London.

The Woodland Trust has claimed that the destruction of ancient woodland for development has continued largely unabated despite changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in July last year which stated that development should be refused unless there are ‘wholly exceptional’ circumstances, such as large infrastructure projects.

The Supreme Court has refused two local residents in Canterbury permission to appeal in a dispute over whether the Communities Secretary was obliged to call in a planning application for a major development that might affect air quality.

Local authorities in southern Hampshire face potential planning appeal costs and disruption to local plans because of a European Court of Justice ruling that affects nitrate pollution in the Solent.

A climate protester has been given a conditional discharge after disrupting a meeting of Norfolk County Council.

The Government has issued a legal direction to Coventry City Council ordering it to implement a clean air charging zone for polluting vehicles.

A Divisional Court has dismissed a legal challenge brought by five councils, the Mayor of London and a number of other claimants over the Secretary of State for Transport’s decision to designate the Airports National Policy Statement (“ANPS”), which sets out that the Government’s preferred location for additional airport capacity in the South East of England is a new runway at Heathrow.

Suffolk County Council has successfully defended a legal challenge brought by a parish council over the grant of planning permission for a new 420-place primary school near a US air force base.

Campaign group Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) is to seek to launch a judicial review of Communities Secretary James Brokenshire’s decision not to call-in Uttlesford District Council’s approval of plans to expand Stansted Airport.

Environmental law charity ClientEarth has warned 38 local authorities in England and Wales of the legal risk of inaction on air pollution.

Matt Lewin analyses the licensing powers available to licensing authorities to reduce air pollution caused by their taxi fleet.

An environmental activist faces court after he disrupted a Norfolk County Council meeting for four hours by singing in the council chamber.

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government failed to take into account material relevant to his decision to adopt a paragraph in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) covering on-shore oil and gas extraction, a High Court judge has found.

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has successfully defended a legal challenge to his decision that proposed development at a disused sports complex was not EIA (environmental impact assessment) development.

The government has this week issued guidance for councils on using new powers to fine householders up to £400 for failing to ensure they gave their waste to a licensed carrier.

The London Borough of Hillingdon has come under fire from trade union Unite for its spending on a legal challenge to the expansion of Heathrow airport.

The mother of a child who died from respiratory failure has delivered a 100,000 signature petition to have the inquest into her death reopened after new evidence emerged that illegal levels of air pollution may have contributed to her death.

The Local Government Association has backed a cross-party campaign which would see a person or business responsible for a change in noise conditions being held responsible for managing that change.

Protesters have said they will take Derby City Council to judicial review after it gave planning permission for temporary use of a new type of waste incinerator.