News about the planning system in the UK, including permitted development rights, the National Planning Policy Framework, the London Plan and the ‘country house’ clause
The director of John Pardey Architects (JPA) has called for the so-called ‘country house clause’ to be scrapped after losing a planning appeal over a low-carbon house in a Kent meadow
Levitt Bernstein’s Julia Park has petitioned the government to debate the impact of controversial rules allowing offices to be converted into homes without planning permission
The communities secretary has overruled a planning inspector to refuse consent for Studio Egret West’s 32-storey Chiswick Curve in west London
London doesn’t need any more viewing platforms, and certainly not one with so much embodied carbon, says tourism expert Dan Anderson
The government’s beauty watchdog has called on councils to ‘say no to ugliness’ by naming and shaming bad housing developments
Housing secretary James Brokenshire has pledged to find new ways to help councils pay for their planning departments
Land for the Many, a new report to the Labour Party published this month, puts forward the most radical re-imagination of land ownership proposals for a generation, writes architect Mark Rowe
Homeowners will be allowed to carry on building large house extensions without full planning permission after the government announced it was making temporary rules permanent
The UK planning system has long abandoned any ambition to present a vision of our cities’ future, writes Ellis Woodman
Labour has pledged to scrap a controversial planning ‘get-out clause’ which allows offices to be converted into homes without planning permission
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