11 May 2021

A watchdog has found official population growth statistics used to agree housing targets may have been overestimated.

20 April 2021

South Cambridgeshire DC has signed up to a vision of doubling nature by 2050, with its partners in Natural Cambridgeshire. Trevor Nicoll explains the three-tiered approach.

12 April 2021

Planners have backed district councils to keep the lion’s share of New Homes Bonus (NHB) in response to a consultation on the funding pot’s future.

23 March 2021

A new report from APSE Energy looks at the practical ways in which the power of planning can be harnessed to embed climate change ambitions, say Phil Brennan and Paul O’Brien.

01 December 2020

Carter Jonas’ Live Local Plan Monitor is 'a unique web-based resource which provides comprehensive information on adopted plans, emerging plans, consultations and councils’ housing supply' says Peter Canavan.

17 November 2020

Joanna Killian says the need to deliver future-focused, robust infrastructure to support housing growth has never been greater - and a CCN-commissioned report offers proposals that 'taken together offer the critical missing piece of the puzzle'.

21 September 2020

Liam Ronan-Chlond  says the challenges for both public and private sectors is how to properly measure the impact development has in the community – and technology can play a pivotal role.

01 September 2020

 A new report calls on the Government to put public health at the heart of housing delivery. Paul O’Brien of APSE and Dr Daniel Slade highlight the main recommendations.

18 August 2020

The Prime Minister regards the new planning White Paper as ‘levelling the foundations’ of the present system but critics say it emasculates the role of local authorities. Michael Burton takes a look at what the paper proposes.

06 August 2020

Councils will face sanctions unless they draw-up local plans within 30 months under government proposals to overhaul the planning system.

30 June 2020

Analyst at Centre for Cities Anthony Breach makes the case for a flexible zoning system. It would give the public a greater say, with the drafting of a local plan becoming ‘even more important’, he argues.

06 February 2020

Battle lines are being drawn ahead of a proposed overhaul of the planning system.

05 February 2020

Many councils simply lack the staff to prepare a local plan, but Richard Kay outlines how Peterborough City Council tackled this by deciding to share its spare capacity, providing important expertise to other councils.

03 February 2020

Communities secretary Robert Jenrick is considering taking South Oxfordshire DC’s plan out of its hands.

31 October 2019

Cllr Edwina Hannaford says Cornwall Council will become an exemplar for what regional leadership can do on combating climate change.

29 October 2019

Friends of the Earth put Wiltshire at the top of the list of most climate-friendly areas in England. Alistair Cunningham outlines how the council will set about achieving its aim for council and county to be carbon neutral by 2030.

10 October 2019

Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick has written to the council ahead of tonight's vote on scrapping its local plan.

25 July 2019

Broxbourne BC and Hertfordshire CC are moving towards final approval process on a £400m scheme to create a new town centre at Brookfield Riverside. Scott Crudgington and Jeff Stack discuss the key elements of the close collaboration.

26 June 2019

The Government should use its ‘powers to intervene’ to ensure councils without local plans make them an urgent priority.

30 April 2019

The Government’s approach to increasing housebuilding via the planning system has been described as ‘trite nonsense’ by an MP.