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Budget 2014: the sector reacts
Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, unveiled yesterday, contained a raft of planning-related announcements, including news that a review of the General Permitted Development Order will be carried out...
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Data blog: empty homes ‘reach 10-year low’
New figures, published by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), show that the number of empty homes in England has fallen to the lowest level since 2004. According to the figures,...
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Never knowingly undersold: Would planning departments make ‘great mutuals’?
In a blog published this week on the Conservative Home website, Benedict McAleenan, a former Conservative Party agent, argues that local authority planning teams should be allowed to become mutuals, a...
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Data blog: special measures for the secretary of state?
One argument often deployed by critics of the government’s controversial special measures policy is that, when it comes to making speedy planning decisions, the secretary of state’s own performance...
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Data blog: Scottish household projections predict slower rate of growth
New household projections just published north of the border predict a slower rate of growth than earlier estimates, a close look at the figures reveals. The 2012-based household projection figures,...
View ArticleCPRE v Policy Exchange: the rematch
Spats between centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange and countryside lobby group the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have been a fixture of party conference season in recent years. This year...
View ArticleData blog: office-to-residential prior approval applications, mapped
Yesterday, the Department for Communities and Local Government published data giving the first glimpse of the take-up of controversial new rules allowing offices to be converted to homes without...
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Data blog: three authorities took bites from the green belt in 2013/14
Three local planning authorities adopted new plans in 2013/14 which resulted in a decrease in the overall area of England’s green belt, according to official figures published today. According to the...
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Data blog: Welsh local development plan coverage improves
This week the Welsh government published a document showing the progress of Wales’ local planning authorities in preparing local development plans. According to the document, as of 24 October 2014, 14...
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Data blog: watchdog report outlines where the cuts have fallen
Council planning and development services have been subjected to the deepest local government cuts between 2010 and 2015, a report published today by public spending watchdog the National Audit Office...
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