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Budget: More funding to recruit planners
BUDGET 2025

Budget: More funding to recruit planners

By Martin Ford | 26 November 2025

Funding to recruit officers has been announced in a bid to boost capacity in the planning system as part of today’s Budget.

HOUSING

The National Housing Bank: Will it help councils build?

By Jack Shaw | 21 November 2025

The question of whether the National Housing Bank becomes a central plank of housebuilding and re...

ENVIRONMENT

Ministers accused of 'scapegoating' nature

By Neil Merrick | 16 November 2025

Ministers have been accused of ‘scapegoating’ nature as they attempt to build 1.5 million homes d...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed refuses to rule out fresh planning legislation

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2025

Fresh planning legislation could be tabled to strip back environmental protections in an effort t...

DEVOLUTION

Forging the strategic planning skills that power devo

By Pooja Agrawal | 31 October 2025

The Government expects every regional body and strategic authority to prepare Spatial Development...

DEVOLUTION

Fragmented councils threaten English Devolution Bill success

By Simon Goacher | 30 October 2025

Simon Goacher says the rise of Reform UK and the shortcomings of the Government’s Devolution Bill...

HOUSING

Government 'confident' in housing plan

By Dan Peters | 29 October 2025

The Government has insisted it ‘remains confident in its plans to get Britain building’ after hou...

PLANNING

MPs call for planning overhaul to boost housing supply

By Martin Ford | 28 October 2025

MPs have urged the Government to overhaul the system of developer contributions to boost housing ...

HOUSING

Councils key to New Towns success, say peers

By Martin Ford | 25 October 2025

Councils must have a key role to make a success of the New Towns programme, peers have urged.

LONDON

London housing measures to empower mayor

By Dan Peters | 24 October 2025

A much-trailed announcement of muscular measures to accelerate housing delivery in London has bee...

PLANNING

PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'

17 October 2025

MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...

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