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PLANNING
Brokenshire backtracks after blocking Baptist bid
By Dan Peters | 13 March 2019
A judicial review next month has been averted after communities secretary James Brokenshire backt...
WELSH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Councillors barrage Brokenshire over Brexit
By Martin Ford | 07 March 2019
Local government secretary James Brokenshire has faced a barrage of Brexit concerns from councill...
PLANNING
Planners in growth and infrastructure warning
By Martin Ford | 21 February 2019
Large-scale infrastructure projects and construction-led economic growth in Scotland are at risk ...
WHITEHALL
Truss backs fiscal devolution
By Dan Peters | 08 February 2019
Chief secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, has given her backing to further fiscal devolution.
PLANNING
Planning system 'underperforming'
By William Eichler | 08 February 2019
The Government’s planning system is ‘underperforming’ and struggling to deliver on its aim of bui...
JAMES BROKENSHIRE
Brokenshire to intervene over 'lamentable' failures to publish local plans
By William Eichler | 05 February 2019
Communities secretary James Brokenshire has written to Wirral MBC and Thanet DC warning them that...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Councils should have a planner in top team
04 February 2019
Cuts to planning authority budgets have left them unable to compete with the private sector for t...
PLANNING
Austerity undermines planners ability to 'serve public interest' - report
By William Eichler | 04 February 2019
Government cuts have eroded the ability of planners to think strategically and to ‘serve the publ...
WHITEHALL
Council to take legal action over Local Plan delay
By Dan Peters | 31 January 2019
Stevenage BC will request a judicial review as the Government continues to hold up its Local Plan.
PLANNING
New year, new council homes
By Matthew Bennett | 29 January 2019
Later this year the first four MetroHomes will be built in Lambeth – a housing approach that us...
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LGR Programme Director
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