This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: commentary on the updated National Planning Policy Framework and a government review of barriers to adopting energy efficiency and low carbon heating measures to historic homes.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: what the planning industry can expect from the new Labour government; planning reforms outlined in Rachel Reeves’ speech and a policy statement removing the de facto onshore wind ban.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a government consultation on changes to permitted development rights in England, a DESNZ consultation on a draft NPS for fusion energy generation, a High Court decision confirming that procedural irregularities will not necessarily invalidate planning decisions where parties have had a fair opportunity to make representations, and publication of the Chief Planner’s update newsletter covering reforms to local plan-making, planning committees and planning capacity initiatives.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: court decisions quashing decisions of various LPAs’ in relation to failures to publish a section 106 agreement, consider the impact on ancient woodland and a heritage building, and publish a key ecological report; guidance on commonly used NSIP terminology and abbreviations; and the launch of a new collection page providing details of Crown Developments and Urgent Crown Developments.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the publication of the revised NPPF and consultation response; a working paper on planning committee reforms; a ‘Plan for Change’ including commitments to fast-track planning decisions to deliver national missions; and a consultation on methodologies for three key network plans.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: Welsh infrastructure post-consent procedure regulations; the Chief Planner’s planning update newsletter; the Outer Dowsing offshore wind generating station development consent and a Law Commission agricultural law in Wales scoping report.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions on consultation of NPSs and temporary permitted development rights; the Spending Review; a new AI tool to accelerate the planning permissions process and analysis of consultations on: implementation of a new statutory build-out reporting framework, amendments to the BNG framework to support smaller and brownfield development, site thresholds and reform of planning committees.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: five statutory instruments published to implement LURA 2023 plan-making reforms; the Chief Planner’s March planning update newsletter; Senedd approval of the Planning (Wales) Bill; a court case on the test for permission to appeal under TCPA 1990, s 289; a court case on an interim injunction in a green belt planning enforcement case; a court case on EIA for a slip road development and the publication of two sets of Welsh Building Safety Act 2022 Regulations.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of a court decision upholding the revocation of a certificate of lawfulness, the announcement of a new partnership for the development of housing, and the grant of a development consent order for a solar farm.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of High Court decisions on whether quashing of a prior approval engages deemed consent and on the zero CIL exception for retained parts of in-use buildings, a consultation on a new permitted development right in England for specified low-impact, temporary ground investigations and surveys for electricity network infrastructure and updated Planning Inspectorate advice pages on NSIPs to reflect Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 changes.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: reforms to the nuclear power plant development planning framework, including a consultation on a draft NPS for nuclear energy generation; minor corrections to the NPPF; Natural England’s ‘Living England’ project for habitat mapping; a new devolution package and statutory invitation letters to councils in two-tier areas.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the publication of the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024; Labour’s plans to establish a publicly owned energy company and a Tribunal case on a public authority’s refusal to disclose information under the Environmental Information Regulations, SI 2004/3391.