Insights and Analysis
UK: Planning spring round-up
28 March 2024
English planning changes – springing into actionA new year is always an opportunity for new growth and renewal. It’s a time for resolutions and change. And considering we are...
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Insights and Analysis
UK: Planning spring round-up
28 March 2024
English planning changes – springing into actionA new year is always an opportunity for new growth and renewal. It’s a time for resolutions and change. And considering we are...
News
UK Planning – New year, same planning challenges
18 January 2024
On 17 January the High Court handed down the latest decision in a long and increasingly knotty line of authorities concerned with the compatibility of planning permissions, scheme changes...
News
UK heritage planning law review 2023 – matters of judgment
14 December 2023
Over the last year, planning, and more particularly planning reform, has become an increasingly hot political topic, even managing to grab headlines in the press and featuring in many of...
News
Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023: UK government planning and environment reforms become law
27 October 2023
On 26 October 2023 the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill received Royal Assent and became an Act of Parliament (“the Act” or “LURA”). The Act introduces...
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Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023: UK government planning and environment reforms become law
27 October 2023
On 26 October 2023 the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill received Royal Assent and became an Act of Parliament (“the Act” or “LURA”). The Act introduces...
News
Three years on – how has Use Class E stacked up in the UK?
17 October 2023
In September 2020, faced with the impacts of a global pandemic exacerbating the problems of an already struggling high-street, the UK government introduced a significant shake-up of the Use ...
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Summertime reading: UK government continues the onslaught of consultations on planning reforms
01 August 2023
Michael Gove’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) seems determined to keep the planning and development industry busy reading over the rest of the summer....
News
Dividing opinion: UK Secretary of State refuses M&S Oxford Street scheme against Inspector’s advice
26 July 2023
Last week saw the Secretary of State’s much anticipated call-in decision on the proposals by Marks and Spencer to demolish and rebuild its flagship store at the Marble Arch end of...
