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The 30 Biggest Planning Authorities 2023/24 is out, with all of the key info on: - The highest application and appeal workloads, - The biggest employers and those with the most vacancies, - The top fee income earners, - The most active enforcers. More ⤵️ planningresource.co.uk/article/188950…

The planning minister has revealed that the government is keeping “under review” the possibility that new towns can contribute to local planning authorities’ housing need figures having previously said they would be in addition to them. planningresource.co.uk/article/192617…

A barristers’ chambers has announced two new heads of its planning and environment team who replace a silk who had been in the role for a decade. planningresource.co.uk/article/192642…

A law firm has recruited a new partner for its planning team from a rival outfit. planningresource.co.uk/article/192642…

Real estate firm Avison Young has chosen two planning directors to become principals, with one also being promoted to senior director. planningresource.co.uk/article/192642…

A report that a former council leader has described government housing need targets for the district as “moronic” leads our daily round-up of planning news in other media. planningresource.co.uk/article/192652…

The trial of a city council’s former assistant director of planning and an ex-planning officer in relation to bribery and misconduct charges has been moved back by six months. planningresource.co.uk/article/192653…

The Tory party leader has appointed a former home and foreign secretary to the shadow housing brief in a reshuffle of her cabinet planningresource.co.uk/article/192653…

Swedish furniture giant IKEA warned a local authority of a potential legal challenge ahead of its subsequent approval of a 1,250-home mixed-use scheme on part of the car park of one of the firm's landmark stores. planningresource.co.uk/article/192654…

Room 106, Ep157: The highest-rated planning barristers and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest planning teams #Planning #Room106 planningresource.co.uk/article/192648…

The High Court ruled that members' decision to allow the extra care scheme had been "robbed of rationality’ by the failure of officers to inform them that funding provided by the consent would be insufficient to deliver a separate life sciences scheme planningresource.co.uk/article/192639…

A photographic studio has successfully challenged an inspector’s consent for the site to be redeveloped into a 50-home mixed-use scheme, with the judge ruling that the official's reasoning was "inadequate" planningresource.co.uk/article/192639…

A council has approved plans to demolish a 70-year-old, 535-home estate to make way for a 1,928-home, 30-storey mixed-use scheme, despite the proposal not being in an area allocated for tall buildings and failing to meet affordable housing requirements planningresource.co.uk/article/192626…

A High Court judge has dismissed a campaign group’s judicial review against the approval of plans to expand the tennis club that hosts the Wimbledon Championships into protected Metropolitan Open Land planningresource.co.uk/article/192626…

An inspector has allowed an appeal over plans for 140 homes on “attractive rural countryside” in the green belt, after concluding that the site met the new grey belt designation in national policy and the authority lacked a five-year housing land supply planningresource.co.uk/article/192637…

The planning minister has revealed that the government is “considering” requiring that swift bricks be “incorporated into new buildings” unless there are “compelling reasons” against doing so in its forthcoming national development management policies. planningresource.co.uk/article/192637…

A report that developers have submitted proposals for a new town with up to 4,250 homes leads our daily round-up of planning news in other media. planningresource.co.uk/article/192638…

A High Court judge has dismissed a campaign group’s judicial review against the approval of plans to expand the tennis club that hosts the Wimbledon Championships into protected Metropolitan Open Land planningresource.co.uk/article/192626…

The government has announced the date that its new building safety levy will be introduced after delaying its launch by 12 months and has laid a draft statutory instrument in Parliament to implement the charge. planningresource.co.uk/article/192618…

The planning minister has told members of the House of Lords that the government does not want “local opposition” to be the “test” of whether a new towns site is taken forward and that any "appropriate" sites would be progressed in “the national interest” planningresource.co.uk/article/192617…

A report that a London borough has refused plans for 867 homes after the developer reduced the proposed affordable housing from 35 per cent to 12 per cent leads our daily round-up of planning news in other media. planningresource.co.uk/article/192616…