This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: draft regulations amending planning application fees in England, analysis of a Court of Appeal case on evidence to change a definitive map, the planning aspects of the AI action plan, analysis of the changes introduced by the revised NPPF and the planning aspects of reforms to boost farmer profitability and food production.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: regulations amending the biodiversity net gain exemptions and the biodiversity gain hierarchy from 6 August 2026; a court decision on continuous residential use and the evidential test in planning enforcement appeals; a court decision on local policy interpretation and fall-back positions in enforcement proceedings, NISTA's annual report on the delivery of major government infrastructure projects, and the Building Safety Regulator’s revised approach to Building Assessment Certificates for higher-risk buildings.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on the scope of the Murfitt principle in enforcement notices; the Chief Planner’s planning update newsletter; DLUHC’s response to the consultation on High Street Rental Auctions; and two consultations on the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the government’s amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill ahead of the House of Lords report stage; the consultation response on the Marine Recovery Fund; a consultation on updates to water resources planning guidelines; and a letter to PINS on exercising flexibility in local plan examinations.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the second reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill; updated guidance on planning application fees; a number of DCO correction orders and recent cases addressing: the interpretation of Class E in the context of lawful development certificates, procedural fairness in advertisement consent appeals, and the misapplication of local plan policies by a local authority.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a court case on a rectification of the village greens register; the Environment Improvement Plan (EIP) annual progress report; a progress report on Protected Landscapes Targets and Outcomes Framework; the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill; and the draft Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: court decisions relating to failure to consider noise impacts in granting planning permission and the quashing of a proposed ‘net zero’ coal mine; a £68m funding commitment to unlock brownfield sites; and the OEP’s response to the NPPF consultation.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of a decision on fallback schemes, the making of the Nature Restoration Levy Regulations 2026, and a consultation response on changes to permitted development rights to support the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the Chief Planner’s April newsletter, additional funding for new Design Code Pathfinder areas and the passing of the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill 2023 by the Welsh Government.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: Royal Assent of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025; a consultation on major reforms to the NPPF; the coming into force of the new infrastructure consent regime in Wales; revised viability PPG; a consultation on energy infrastructure development application fees; the progression of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill to Stage 2 committee consideration; and the launch of the Marine Recovery Fund.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: confirmation that biodiversity net gain comes into force on 12 February 2024, analysis of the policy paper on speeding up infrastructure delivery, the grant of development consent for the A12 to A120 widening scheme and the Drax bioenergy power station, as well as the commencement of further provisions of the Building Safety Act 2022.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the planning announcements in the King’s Speech 2024, analysis of a decision to quash an out of town retail permission for failure to consider a competing scheme, and the grant of three development consent orders for solar farms.