Hot on the heels of the NPPF consultation MHCLG has published a working paper on the introduction of ‘brownfield passports’ to encourage development of brownfield urban land in a way that goes beyond the policy support in the...more
One of the final amendments to the new Levelling up and Regeneration Act (“LURA”) before it gained royal assent on 26 October 2023, was to require the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to consider...more
The refusal of M&S's plans to demolish and rebuild their flagship store on Oxford Street by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Michael Gove) has attracted much attention because of the wider...more
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Urban Planning & Development
In the second Insight in our series on the planning changes in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (the first was on the proposed changes to local plans), we examine the proposed new Infrastructure Levy that will...more
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill introduces some fundamental changes to the English planning system particularly for local plans. In the first of three Insights on the planning changes in this Bill, we examine the...more
The new London Plan 2021 was adopted on 2 March, four years after its first inception. During the plan making process it came under much central government scrutiny and criticism....more
On Tuesday 17th November the High Court dismissed legal challenges to the Government’s most recent amendments to the Use Classes Order and General Permitted Development Order. ...more
The recent Court of Appeal decision in Finney v Welsh Ministers [2019] (All ER (D) 51 (Nov)) provides definitive authority on the inability to use section 73 to amend the description of a development on a planning...more