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Out of time, out of luck?

Out of time, out of luck?

Anna Stein looks at how local planning authorities can successfully resist a planning judicial review brought after the deadline.

September 18, 2026

Out of time, out of luck?

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Judge rejects challenge to solar development on 65-acre site

September 17, 2026

High Court quashes planning permission for 132-flat scheme over misleading officers’ report

September 17, 2026

Council eyes legal challenge to Government intervention in local plan process

September 17, 2026

Public Law Project says evidence does not exist to justify extending NSIP judicial review reforms to other planning judicial reviews

Sep 15, 2026

Judicial review launched over approval for hydroelectric scheme in national park

Sep 11, 2026

Planning inspector makes costs award against council over "unreasonable behaviour" in dispute over caravan site

Sep 11, 2026

Borough council secures injunction over site near Aldermaston nuclear facility

Sep 10, 2026

Council concedes approval for intensive poultry unit was unlawful: report

Sep 08, 2026

Minister orders council to carry out Regulation 19 consultation on emerging plan

Sep 07, 2026

Minister intervenes after council pauses publication of plan for Regulation 19 consultation

Sep 07, 2026

Land promoters and developers group calls for six more High Court judges specialising in planning cases

Sep 03, 2026

Royal borough to challenge decision by planning inspector that metropolitan open land can be ‘grey belt’

Sep 03, 2026

Campaign group sends pre-action letter over motorway services approval

Sep 02, 2026

Housing sector issues guidance aimed at improving section 106 outcomes

Sep 01, 2026

Judge rejects legal challenge over £125k Community Infrastructure Levy liability and new evidence

Aug 27, 2026

Ombudsman criticises “delay and drift” in planning enforcement case

Aug 27, 2026

Council rules out judicial review of approval of solar farm due to “insufficient grounds”

Aug 26, 2026

Government consults on standard s106 planning agreements for medium-sized sites

Aug 25, 2026

Campaigners and council bring legal challenge over grant of planning permission for 975-home scheme on land owned by charity

Aug 25, 2026

Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal in s70C ‘two bites at the cherry’ dispute

Aug 24, 2026

Mayors in England to be handed ‘call in’ powers over key planning decisions in their areas

Aug 24, 2026

Welsh Government consults on revision to National Development Framework

Aug 20, 2026

Judge rejects bid to challenge decision to decline to determine application for retrospective planning permission for Traveller site

Aug 20, 2026

Welsh Ministers defend challenge to refusal of permission for 18 wind turbines

Aug 20, 2026

Revised NPPF clarifies roles of different types of plans and considerations in decision-making, Minister tells councils

Aug 20, 2026

Government insists press reports claiming revised National Planning Policy Framework makes it easier to approve unauthorised Traveller sites are “wrong”

Aug 19, 2026

Revised National Planning Policy Framework to introduce default ‘yes’ for homes near well-connected stations

Aug 17, 2026

High Court refuses permission for challenge to decision not to take enforcement action against breaches of planning control

Aug 14, 2026

Parish council fails in legal challenge over approval for sand and gravel extraction at former airfield

Aug 14, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to council declining to determine planning application despite change in national Green Belt policy

Aug 14, 2026

High Court judge rejects legal challenge over £295k Community Infrastructure Levy demand

Aug 13, 2026

Defendant given suspended sentence after bringing caravans onto land in breach of planning injunction

Aug 12, 2026

Vape shops to require planning permission under Government plans to boost high streets

Aug 11, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to lawfulness of grant of planning permission claimed to be 'inconsistent' with previous decisions

Aug 10, 2026

District council faces legal challenge over approval of intensive poultry unit expansion

Aug 07, 2026

Campaigners to appeal rejection of legal challenge over grant of planning permission for Chinese embassy

Aug 07, 2026

London borough to become interested party in legal challenge over 850-home Peckham redevelopment refusal

Aug 06, 2026

Developer wins High Court statutory review challenge over highways impacts

Aug 06, 2026

Council to quash salmon farm permission over lack of environmental impact assessment

Aug 06, 2026

Claimants fail in legal challenge to permission for 185,000m² of warehousing on greenfield land

Aug 06, 2026

Supreme Court refuses to hear application for extension of time to appeal in Luton Airport expansion case

Aug 04, 2026

Judges dismiss legal challenge over grant of permission for new Chinese embassy

Jul 31, 2026

Court of Appeal order brings end to decade-long planning dispute over site of photography studio

Jul 30, 2026

Features

The August 2026 NPPF: what has changed from the consultation draft?

The August 2026 NPPF: what has changed from the consultation draft?

September 09, 2026

Adam Richards, Sarah Sutherland and Daniel Whittle look at the key departures in the National Planning Policy Framework from the consultation draft.

Call-in powers for mayors

Call-in powers for mayors

August 28, 2026

Simon Ricketts assesses the Government’s plans to give mayors the ability to call in key planning decisions which impact on local government.

Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

August 21, 2026

James Goldthorpe, Emyr Thomas and Alastair Lewis set out where the government’s Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (“NSIPs”) reforms have reached, the implications of the changes made to date and how the latest consultation “beyond NSIPS” could allow the government to build on the progress which has already been made this Parliament. Promising to streamline the planning process for…

Quashing of timely prior approval and the deemed consent rule

Quashing of timely prior approval and the deemed consent rule

August 13, 2026

The High Court has confirmed that the quashing of a local planning authority’s timely notification of prior approval does not retrospectively trigger the 56-day deemed consent rule in Schedule 2, Part 3, paragraph W(11) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (GPDO), writes Ruchi Parekh.

Alteration to the design of plans

Alteration to the design of plans

Aug 12, 2026

It’s academic

It’s academic

Aug 12, 2026

Biodiversity Net Gain: 2026 changes for LPAs

Biodiversity Net Gain: 2026 changes for LPAs

Aug 07, 2026

Interpretation of s.106 agreements

Interpretation of s.106 agreements

Jul 31, 2026

Certificates of Appropriate Alternative Developments – the cancelled scheme world

Certificates of Appropriate Alternative Developments – the cancelled scheme world

Jul 31, 2026

Lessons from the Brockwell Park judicial review litigation 

Jul 24, 2026

The exceptions to inappropriate development in the Green Belt

Jul 23, 2026

Are Minerals still “essential”?

Jul 17, 2026

Draft planning committee reports: sharing is caring

Jul 16, 2026

Assessing logistics proposals

Jul 16, 2026

Minerals webinar series - Part 1: Minerals plan-making: the next phase

Jul 14, 2026

When is a dwellinghouse not a dwellinghouse?

Jul 10, 2026

Roles for members in the new delegated arrangements for planning decisions

Jul 03, 2026

Planning enforcement and lawfulness cases

Jul 03, 2026

Route 62A

Jun 25, 2026

Streamlining the planning system: the new National Delegation Scheme

Jun 11, 2026

Keeping up: JR changes, deadlines

Jun 11, 2026

Applying the principles in Holborn Studios

Jun 11, 2026

Refusal to take planning enforcement action

Jun 05, 2026

Building Liability Orders (BLOs) – Crest Nicholson v Ardmore

Jun 04, 2026

Webinars

Minerals webinar series - Part 1: Minerals plan-making: the next phase

Watch Landmark Chambers' first part of its Minerals webinar series, recorded on 8 June 2026.

Boundary line lessons from White v Alder [2025] EWCA Civ 392

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill – what’s in, what’s out and will it work?

Planning Case Law Update

Local Authority Insight Series: Regeneration and the local authority estate

Construction Law Update

Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy Update

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