Darlington garden village gets £43 million
Homes England has invested £43 million into Burtree Garden Village, Darlington.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Government issues six-week cladding deadline to developers
Developers have six weeks to sign the legally binding contracts that commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Plans for regeneration of Oxpens site submitted
OXWED LLP has lodged plans with Oxford City Council for the regeneration of the Oxpens site into a mixed-use neighbourhood.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
We have been busy working with our colleagues at TerraQuest on an extensive package of improvements to the Planning Portal, which we plan to implement on 9 February. Some of these changes will notably enhance how our regular customers use the system, other changes may not be so noticeable but we are sure will be welcomed by many.
Read more…Planning Portal have worked with the Greater London Authority to update several of the specific question sets that capture additional information in application submissions. This information helps to provide a more detailed picture of the development across the capital and facilitate monitoring of London Plan policy objectives. The following updates to Greater London Authority specific questions will be made in early February.
Read more…We have listened to user feedback around the process of copying applications and are pleased to be able to improve this function with more flexibility and information where needed.
The feature will be available in early February, and we will monitor feedback and look to deliver further improvements going forward.
Read more…Following the launch of our new platform and the latest (v3) version of our data standard last year, we are now updating all but one of our questions that refer to Use Classes to ensure the options provided match current legislation. We plan to implement this update on 9 February.
Note that we encountered an issue when updating our ‘Non-Residential Floorspace’ question. It will be updated separately in a future release to ensure that this is resolved.
Read more…Plans for mixed-use scheme in Leeds submitted
A planning application has been submitted to Leeds City Council for a £300 million mixed-use scheme on a site in the South Bank regeneration area of the city centre.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Decision deadline for A47 scheme extended
Transport minister Huw Merriman has announced that the deadline for a decision to be made on the A47 Wansford to Sutton National Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) has been extended to 17 February.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Solar farm approved to power water treatment facility
Torbay Council has granted planning permission for a solar farm that will provide clean energy for a water treatment works.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
December’s figures continued the trend of being lower than 2021; with application figures falling by 11.5% compared to December 2021.
Read more…Mandatory second staircases subject to consultation
The government is consulting on proposals to mandate second staircases in new residential buildings over 30 metres height.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
New homes to have gigabit broadband
The government has amended the Building Regulations 2010 so that new homes built in England will be fitted with infrastructure and connections capable of delivering gigabit broadband.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Plans submitted for 144ha site near Bognor Regis
Planning permission is being sought from Arun District Council for a mixed-use masterplan for land west of Bersted, near Bognor Regis.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Logistics plan launched for the North
If the freight and logistics sector is to grow, investment is required to address three areas of constraint, according to Transport for the North (TfN).
Laura Edgar, The Planner
PBSA accommodation plans submitted in Manchester
Plans for a mixed-use office and purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme at One Medlock Street, Manchester, have been submitted by Whitbread and Dominvs Group.
Prithvi Pandya, The Planner
Stockport delays local plan consultation
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has issued a statement explaining that it has deferred the planned consultation on its local plan following proposed planning reforms announced this month by the government.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
The Planning Portal Team would like to extend warm seasonal greetings to all our customers and service providers. It’s been a phenomenal year for us, filled with a range of key updates to our service as well as exciting developments for the planning and building industries overall. We’d like to take this opportunity to reflect on some of our key developments during 2022.
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