Planning weekly highlights—10 September 2020

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This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: two Court of Appeal decisions, one finding that a time-expired policy was not ‘out-of-date’ for the purposes of the NPPF and the another considering the public sector equality duty; the relaunch of an inquiry into progress on devolution in England; government plans to boost affordable housing, provide £30m to release land for housing and raise accessibility standards for new homes; a Special Development Order granting temporary permission for inland border facilities and infrastructure in preparation for Brexit; and a High Court hearing scheduled for a legal challenge against amendments to permitted development and use classes.