Planning weekly highlights—27 February 2020

Table of contents

• Nationally significant infrastructure projects
• Court of Appeal finds designation of Airports National Policy Statement, providing for expansion at Heathrow, unlawful
• Protected areas and species
• Further expansion of district level licensing to conserve newts
• Planning policy
• National Infrastructure Commission publishes annual monitoring report 2020
• North Somerset Council blocks Bristol Airport expansion
• Over a million homes with planning permission remain unbuilt
• Sublet Property (Offences) Bill
• Welsh Government releases new strategy on building social housing

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Article summary

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: updates on the decision of the Court of Appeal to find the designation of the Airports National Policy Statement unlawful, the extension of the district level licensing scheme for protected newts, publication of the NIC’s annual monitoring report, a new strategy for social house building in Wales, and a Court of Appeal decision on the meaning of ‘appropriation’.