A planning inspector was right to reject an appeal over a building where a drawing error showed it lower than its intended height, the High Court has ruled.

Errors by Hertsmere Borough Council mean a local resident should have a community infrastructure levy (CIL) payment refunded, the High Court has found.

Developers have withdrawn a threatened High Court action over a controversial £271m building plan in the centre of Norwich.

Maidstone Borough Council has obtained a full injunction “in both prohibitory and mandatory terms” against the owner of a site located in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

The London Borough of Barnet has won an appeal after the Crown Court imposed a confiscation order of £270 when the council had contended for more than £455,000.

Sevenoaks District Council has been refused permission to appeal a Planning Court ruling rejecting its legal challenge to a finding by a planning inspector that it had failed to comply with the duty to cooperate when preparing the Sevenoaks District Local Plan for its administrative area.

The Communities Secretary has called on councils to ensure that that government guidance on outdoor structures is applied proportionately and consistently, to support businesses in their areas to reopen safely and to avoid overzealous interpretations of the rules.

The London Borough of Hillingdon has lost a High Court judicial review against two Whitehall departments over routes for HS2 construction traffic in the borough.

Legal action by a parish has seen Babergh District Council agree to quash outline planning permission it granted to developer Catesby Development Land for 64 homes.

A report by a law firm has led to the resignation of a council leader over planning issues.

A campaign group has filed a request for an oral hearing after a High Court judge refused permission on the papers for a legal challenge over South Oxfordshire District Council’s decision to proceed with its Local Plan 2035.

The Upper Tribunal has ruled that London Southend Airport should pay over £85,000 compensation to homeowners whose properties depreciated in value after a runway expansion increased noise in the area.

A parish council has raised more than £12,000 towards a legal challenge over Durham Council’s decision to give a developer permission for a 72-home development.

The Court of Appeal has agreed to hear a dispute over whether a developer's obligation to provide an environmental statement describing the likely significant effects of a development, both direct and indirect, requires an assessment of the greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions resulting from the use of an end product said to have originated from that development.

The High Court has quashed planning permission given seven years ago in error which would have allowed the huge expansion of a caravan site.

Calderdale Borough Council has won a High Court challenge to a decision by a planning inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to allow a large illuminated digital advertisement on a site in Elland.

Braintree District Council has failed to get an enforcement notice reinstated by the High Court over the residual occupation of caravans.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine the Government’s approach to permitted development rights (PDR).

The monitoring officer at Ealing Council has advised the chair of its planning committee that a decision taken at a meeting on 10 March 2021, which saw an "unexpected problem" with the broadcast stream, cannot stand.

The High Court has rejected all the grounds of appeal argued by a parish council that wanted to prevent planning permission being given for an urban extension to Newton Abbot.

Eight people who committed repeated breaches of planning permission and court orders while trying to establish a site in Basildon have had their sentences confirmed after failing to convince the Court of Appeal that their punishments were too severe.

The Court of Appeal has rejected a series of appeals brought by a developer over the future of the former policing college at Bramshill.

A landlord who turned a property in Walthamstow into 13 flats has been ordered to pay nearly £200,000 in fines, costs and a confiscation order.

A mining company has launched judicial review proceedings against Cumbria County Council over the local authority's decision to refer a planning application for a new coal mine to committee for the fourth time.

The Supreme Court will next week consider whether section 61N of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which deals with legal challenges to neighbourhood development orders, should be interpreted to mean that the appellant’s application for judicial review was made out of time.