The Prime Minister has attacked “the nimbys, the regulators, the blockers and bureaucrats…the alliance of naysayers” as he unveiled a target of fast-tracking decisions on 150 major infrastructure projects in this Parliament.

North Northamptonshire Council “fell well below the standard to be expected” in handling planning applications when it twice confused two separate sites and so failed to properly consult the public on a development.

The vast majority of councils have expressed concern to the Government about whether its plan to build 1.5 million new homes over the next five years is achievable, according to analysis by the BBC of councils’ responses to a consultation exercise carried out by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The claimant seeking to bring a judicial review challenge over Gwynedd Council's 'Article 4 Direction’ aimed at curbing second homes and short-term holiday lets has applied for a renewal of their application for permission.

An application for judicial review of Gwynedd Council's implementation of new rules aimed at curbing second homes and short-term holiday lets has been dismissed by a High Court judge.

The Government has decided to close the Office for Place and pass its responsibilities back to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

The Planning Inspectorate has updated its guidance on preparing Statements of Common Ground (SoCGs) used in appeals of council planning decisions.

Lord Justice Lewison has refused Newham Council permission to appeal the High Court's dismissal of its judicial review application of HM Revenue & Custom’s (HMRC) decision that a floating hotel is not a building for Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) purposes.

Law firm Leigh Day has said the High Court will hear a judicial review brought by objectors to the redevelopment of the former Bristol Zoo site.

A Crown Court judge has ordered a landlord to pay more than £280,000 in fines, confiscation order and costs after he ignored an enforcement notice by Ealing Council to return a home to its former condition.

The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal over whether the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 ("the Habitats Regulations"), properly interpreted, required an "appropriate assessment" before a local planning authority decided whether to discharge conditions on the approval of reserved matters, having previously granted outline planning permission, without such an…

A magistrates' court has found that a wildlife rescuer was not guilty of breaching an abatement notice issued by East Hampshire District Council (EHDC) over odour nuisances from foxes she looked after on her property.

The High Court has granted an interim injunction requiring a set of flats to be used as affordable housing after Westminster City Council argued a property owner must honour a section 106 agreement.

Hampshire County Council has established a steering group and is seeking a "step in clause" as part of a section 106 agreement in order to oversee Eastleigh Borough Council's "unusual" decision to build a primary school as part of a 2,500-home development.

North Northamptonshire Council has applied to the High Court for the rights to access a site to carry out the demolition of what it claims is an “unsafe” building.

A planning officer at Dorset Council has warned that the council may not be able to enforce alleged planning breaches with 170 cases more than four years old.

The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities did not act unlawfully by failing to take account of a planning report published only after the inquiry concerned closed, though before his decision.

Bolsover District Council has secured an interim injunction against a developer prohibiting them from building, selling or leasing any more properties on a development after the council claimed the developer had not built enough affordable homes.

Campaigners have issued a legal challenge against a proposed waste incineration development on the Isle of Portland that was initially rejected by Dorset Council.

The Restoration & Renewal Delivery Authority, which was established in 2020 for the purpose of restoring the Grade I listed Palace of Westminster, is seeking to appoint a provider of specialist legal services in the field of legal planning and consents.

Claimants should have fewer ‘bites at the cherry’ when seeking permission for judicial review of development consent orders (DCOs) made under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) regime, an independent review by leading planning barrister Lord Charles Banner KC has recommended.

A High Court judge has handed jail sentences to a man and a woman who built an access point onto an A road without planning permission.

Housebuilder Cora Homes has won on one of four grounds in a planning appeal, with Mr Justice Mould ruling he could not say the decision of the inspector concerned would have been the same without the error made.

Horsham District Council has defeated a judicial review brought by a local resident against its grant of planning consent to expand a football pitch and fell a veteran ash tree.

North Hertfordshire Council wrongly delayed serving an abatement notice on a noisy business, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found.

Councils in England and Wales are sitting on more than £8bn of infrastructure contributions, including over £6bn from section 106 agreements and almost £2bn raised through the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), research by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) has claimed.

A more integrated, long-term approach to governance, funding, planning and delivery will enable the transformative change needed to tackle the housing "permacrisis," a new report has suggested.

Campaigners have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a statutory review of the Government's decision to call in and hand planning permission to an incinerator that Dorset Council had initially rejected.

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site, a conservation group aiming to protect the prehistoric structure, has failed in a judicial review challenge to the previous Government’s decision to approve a £2.5bn road scheme through the site.