Planning committee members at Maidstone Borough Council have rejected a 421-homes planning application despite a warning of “significant costs” from officers if an appeal were to succeed.

Mills & Reeve has appointed Melanie Grimshaw as planning partner to support the firm’s national planning practice and its Manchester real estate team.

The High Court has granted Sevenoaks District Council permission to bring judicial review proceedings on all grounds over a decision of the planning inspector appointed by the Secretary of State to examine the Sevenoaks District Local Plan.

The Planning Inspectorate has unveiled plans to hold at least another 20 hearings and inquiries and an additional 15 hearings for national infrastructure projects in June.

A parish council has issued a pre-action letter against one of two district councils involved in an application to build 210 homes.

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has agreed to a redetermination of a 1,524-unit housing development proposal for the former Daily Telegraph/Daily Express printworks site in East London following legal action from Tower Hamlets Council and the Greater London Assembly (GLA).

Planning inspectors should reconsider whether two lead urns that were placed on top of limestone piers at a historic house were ‘buildings’ or not, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The National Association of Planning Enforcement, part of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), has issued an updated Planning Enforcement Handbook for England.

The Supreme Court has refused the Welsh Ministers’ application for permission to appeal a ruling that s.73 permissions cannot alter the description of development, it has been reported.

South Cambridgeshire District Council has agreed to the High Court quashing its decision to discharge in part conditions relating to foul and surface water drainage for a residential development.

The Mayor of London has failed in a challenge by statutory review to a decision of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to allow an appeal by Harrow School against refusal of planning permission for a substantial development.

A judge has rejected a developer's claim that 135 homes would have been appropriate alternative development for a site compulsorily purchased for a bypass.

City of York Council was entitled to treat a site as not in its Green Belt even though it was located in an “indicative doughnut ring” in its policies, a Planning Court judge has ruled.

Mendip District Council was right to accept the recommendations of an examiner into the draft neighbourhood plan for the village of Norton St Philip and allow this to proceed to a referendum, the High Court has ruled.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced further, temporary measures to make it easier to operate the planning system during the coronavirus outbreak.

The Supreme Court has granted the operator of Heathrow Airport and a hotels group permission to appeal over whether the government’s failure to take account of the UK’s climate change commitments, as represented in the Paris Agreement, when deciding whether or not to build a new runway rendered the decision unlawful.

The Planning Inspectorate has said its first fully ‘digital’ hearing in England is due to take place next week (11 May).

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Alternative Dispute Resolution is to hold an online discussion session on Monday (4 May) to explore how ADR methods can be used to improve fairness, efficiency and outcomes in the UK planning system.

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council is to appoint “suitably qualified legal practices” to act on its behalf in dealing primarily with section 106 planning obligations and unilateral undertakings under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 that the council negotiates on, leading to completion of the deeds.

Sharpe Pritchard has advised Suffolk County Council on the completed section 106 agreement relating to the proposed SnOasis development near Stowmarket.

A Planning Court judge has dismissed a developer's claim for statutory review after an inspector dismissed its appeal against the refusal by a district council of planning permission for the demolition of a Victorian villa in a conservation area.

An Upper Tribunal judge has set aside a decision by a First-tier Tribunal (FTT) that upheld – after a freedom of information request – the withholding of an agent’s advice to a local authority on the tactics it should apply in negotiations with Tesco over a proposed development.

Sevenoaks District Council has launched a judicial review challenge after a planning inspector refused to endorse its new Local Plan.

The planning and environmental law committees at the Law Society and the City of London Law Society have backed the view – as expressed by various barristers – that public inquiries could continue to proceed by using video and telephone conferencing technology, whilst still complying with the legal principles of fairness and public participation.

Cornwall Council has won an appeal over whether its grant of planning permission for new holiday lodges was lawful in a case where relevant policies of the development plan pointed “in different directions".