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.