This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the introduction of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to Parliament; analysis on the approach to siting new nuclear power stations beyond 2025; a draft Order amending the NSIP thresholds for onshore wind and solar projects; and plans to reform the statutory consultee system.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a High Court ruling refusing an injunction for an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers; a Court of Appeal decision on the application of the proximity principle in waste planning decisions; a Court of Appeal case on the relationship between caravan site licensing and planning permission; development consent granted for the Cory Decarbonisation Project; the government’s response to draft NPS for nuclear energy generation; Natural England’s strategy for systemic nature recovery; and upcoming changes to the planning appeal submission process.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on procedural fairness in planning committee meetings; court decisions on indirect and cumulative impacts following Finch and affordable housing planning obligations; analysis of the Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations; a First-tier Tribunal decision on disclosure of planning documents under EIR 2004; and updated Affordable Housing Programme guidance.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of the court decisions dismissing the challenge to the A47 improvements and upholding the challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision to block the M&S redevelopment on Oxford Street, various amendments to the procedural aspects of the regime for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) and analysis of the government’s consultation response on operation reforms to the NSIP consenting process.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: Royal Assent of the Planning (Wales) Act 2026 and Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026, a Court of Appeal judgment on alternatives, High Court judgments confirming the process for challenging a decision on appeal mode and how to deal with periods of non-use in presumed dedication cases under HiA 1980, s 31(1), and updated PINS appeals procedural guidance.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: proposals by the Welsh Government to accelerate infrastructure planning decisions; High Street Rental Auctions in force on 2 December 2024; and a £47m commitment to unlock nutrient neutrality stalled homes.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes updated NSIP advice notes and a service update on applications for developments of national significance (DNS) in Wales.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the announcement of a raft of measures to prioritise brownfield development, statutory biodiversity net gain coming into force, and publication of the register of high-rise residential buildings.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025; a letter from Matthew Pennycook on the approach to changing s 106 obligations via section 73; regulations extending the NSIP Regime to data centres; a court decision rejecting a challenge to a grant of outline permission for redevelopment at Chatham Docks; the Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Order; and the DfT’s plans to improve local England roads and highways.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal case on the sequential test in retail planning; an amendment Order to change permitted development rights for off-street electric vehicle charging points, and air source heat pumps; and updated PPG on Crown Development and planning application procedures.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the grant of development consent for two renewable energy projects, and two judgments on quashing of a certificate of lawful use and a planning injunction.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes the government response to biodiversity net gain consultations regarding NSIPs and brownfield development, the Welsh government’s guidance on how and when to appeal a planning enforcement notice, the introduction of mandatory digital submissions for enforcement appeals from June 2026 and a BPF report finding that planning consent times for build-to-rent homes in London have doubled.