18.02.21 – Government plan to transform Oxford-Cambridge Arc into UK’s fastest growing economic region

12.02.21 – Government moots withholding New Homes Bonus payments from councils without up-to-date local plans

10.02.21 – Funding boost provides councils with certainty to plan for year ahead with £51 billion funding package

09.02.21 – National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: consultation proposals

02.02.21 – Plan policies for large settlements should have 30-year vision, draft NPPF changes state

30.01.21 – All new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules

25.01.21 – When Covid is over, what buildings do we actually want to see in Britain’s cities?

22.01.21 – MHCLG accused of ‘legislative sleight of hand’ in making temporary Covid-19 planning changes permanent

20.01.21 – How the government is backing permitted development, city living and new settlements to meet its housebuilding target, by Catriona Riddell

19.01.21 – More than 50 councils to get planning powers curbed following latest Housing Delivery Test results

16.01.21 – ‘Right to Regenerate’ to turn derelict buildings into homes and community assets

13.01.21 – Ministers should scrap plans to build 300,000 homes a year, say countryside groups

06.01.21 – CIL Watch: Housing minister says government is open to “regional” approach for new infrastructure levy

11.12.20 – The 121 authorities that we predict will face housing delivery test sanctions next year

08.12.20 – Housing minister promises government response to standard method consultation ‘shortly’

04.12.20 – Tory rebels plot to block new homes on climate grounds in planning algorithm row

03.12.20 – Fast track for public services: new planning reforms to speed up delivery of schools and hospitals

24.11.20 – More than 50% of Conservative backbenchers consider opposing planning reforms, survey shows
