We’re excited to announce that after months of hard work, our parent company TerraQuest have launched their new look website yesterday (28 July), taking the first step into launching their new brand identity.
The brand updates have been implemented to show the progression of TerraQuest since it was established in 1972, retaining the core company messaging whilst modernising, helping them to become industry leaders within their sector.
Council wins legal challenge against Planning Inspectorate
A decision by the Planning Inspectorate to grant outline permission on appeal for nine dwellings on Station Road in Fordham has been quashed by the High Court.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Principles identified to build the homes of the future
Twenty ‘key principles’ have been identified and published in a report to inform the second stage of the Home of 2030 competition.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
International competition launched to design railway stations
Network Rail and RIBA Competitions have launched an international competition to design how Britain’s railway stations will look in the future.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
At the Planning Portal we have been assessing recent planning application submission data in our Market Insight Report, allowing us to analyse trends and review the impact that COVID-19 has had upon planning and building and how this effects other industry sectors.
Our previous reports from May and June showed a huge decline in applications across the months of April and May, with an 18.5% and 14% decrease in submissions respectively when compared to the same months in 2019. However, there has been an enormous resurgence in applications for the month of June, with an increase of 21% compared to 2019.
New government legislation, coming into effect on 1 August 2020, will look to ensure that all new dwellings built under permitted development rights provide their occupants with adequate natural light.
We are updating several areas of our online service for Prior Approval applications to account for these changes.
Government legislates to ensure all permitted development properties have natural light
Housing minister Christopher Pincher has laid regulations before Parliament to legislate that homes delivered through permitted development rights must have windows.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Climate crisis compliance accountability needed
Planning decision-makers should be held to account when it comes to compliance with the climate change duty, according to a new report.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Government extends affordable homes scheme
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that the Affordable Homes Programme will be extended until March 2023.
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Registration for places at the Planning Portal Virtual Conference 2020 is now open, with early bird tickets available for only £75 +VAT, and free to attend for public sector officials.
The conference will take place from 16 – 19 November and will provide 12 hours of content over the four-day event, including speakers and panel discussions covering the most important topics effecting planning and building. The agenda will include planning reform, zero carbon targets, and technology in both development management and in the planning process.
Johnson outlines plans to change the use classes order
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out new regulations that will see buildings and land changing use without planning permission, with a policy paper due in July outlining how ‘England’s seven-decade-old planning system will be reformed for modern society’.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Risk that social value is spread too thin in construction, finds report
The lack of a common definition of what constitutes social value means there is a high risk of it ‘becoming too diffuse and lacking focus’, according to a report published by the Institute of Economic Development (IED).
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Regenerate the countryside to regenerate the economy, says CPRE
A countryside charity has called on the government to ensure that everyone has access to green space, after the early period of total lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 highlighted the inequalities surrounding who has access to it.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
The Planning Portal are delighted to be hosting our second annual Conference, taking place virtually this year from 16-19 November.
The Conference will be held online to ensure we can still connect delegates with multiple industry-leading keynote speakers and panel discussions, whilst keeping everyone safe during the uncertainty of COVID-19.
Read more…Jenrick ‘insisted’ Westferry decision was made before CIL regime change came into force
Documents released by housing secretary Robert Jenrick regarding his decision to approve a 1,524-home scheme on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets show he ‘insisted’ a decision was made before it was ‘impacted by a change in the London CIL regime’.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Covid-19: Planning expiry deadlines extended
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that planning permission deadlines will be extended as the government puts in place measures to support the construction industry and ‘boost building’.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
Climate and nature recovery should be addressed as one, suggests report
Restoring degraded habitats would see them absorb a third of the UK’s carbon emissions, suggests a report, as a wildlife charity insists that the climate and nature crises should be tackled together as one.
Laura Edgar, The Planner
New planning rules have been announced by the Prime Minister, who said on Tuesday that he wanted the UK to “build, build, build” during the recovery from COVID-19, boosting the economy and the construction industry. The “radical” regulation changes will look to ease restrictions and grant increased liberties to change the use of properties and land without planning permission and allows residential homes to be constructed from unoccupied properties, such as vacant shops.
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