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.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a consultation on changes to permitted development rights in England, a court decision on the implementation and review of old mineral permissions, a court decision on housing development and flood risk policy, the designation of nine local planning authorities for planning performance, consultation on regulations implementing the Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026, a decision to treat a proposed data centre campus as an NSIP, and planning and AI.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: court decisions in relation to the importance of procedural compliance in planning enforcement appeals, material considerations after a planning inquiry closes, and the duty to ‘seek to further the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty’ of AONBs/National Landscapes; Defra’s 2025 biodiversity duty statement; guidance on the environmental performance of historic buildings; analysis of the consultation for streamlining the NSIP planning process; and the introduction of the Planning (Wales) Bill to the Senedd.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: our analyses of the changes introduced by the revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework; the government’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan; Working Papers on development and nature recovery and on decision making by planning committees; greater powers for Mayors; and a Court of Appeal decision on time limits in bringing statutory review applications.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a consultation on areas for producing spatial development strategies; a harbour revision order prioritisation framework for ports; development consent for the Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind (Generation Station) project; a planning analysis of the Water White Paper 2026; an analysis of section 78 written representations appeals moving to an expedited ‘no further representations’ model from 1 April 2026; an expansion of the digital appeals service to enforcement cases; and a High Court decision on the use of a plan as evidence of parties’ joint intention.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a series of new Welsh infrastructure consent regulations coming into force in December 2025; the Welsh Government’s response to independent marine planning review findings; and guidance on management plans for Protected Landscapes.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: publication of the Land Use Framework and the London Infrastructure Framework; a consultation on a new permitted development right for small-scale onshore wind turbines; new permitted development rights for Wales to permit temporary use of land as recreational campsites, a consultation outcome confirming that environmental outcome reports will be taken forward, a section 35 direction for the Heathrow West Terminal project and cases grappling with reserved matters and section 73 amendments and asylum seeker accommodation.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the Chief Planner’s planning update newsletter; the new Floods Resilience Taskforce; the publication of Regulations under the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023; and the Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide 2024.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a new consultation direction for England, further detail on planning committee reform, amendments to the criteria for applications of potential strategic importance, court decisions on the interpretation of the TCPA 1990, s 57(4) counterfactual, environmental impact assessment functional separation and demolition-avoidance policy and the importance of complying strictly with the requirements for commencing proceedings, the planning update newsletter for March 2026 and updated Welsh guidance on the historic environment.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal case on the scope of discontinuance notices for advertisement consent, a Court of Appeal case on EIA requirements and deemed planning permission for HS2 development, MHCLG’s intervention in the City of London Local Plan examination, government clarification on planning rules for residential air conditioning installations, a new Welsh application form for significant infrastructure projects, and an MHCLG letter advising on CIL exemptions for householders and self-builders.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a progress update on LURA 2023 build-out measures; new guidance documents for NSIPs; and changes to permitted development rights relating to agricultural development and buildings.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the New Towns Taskforce report; court decisions in relation to appropriate development and harm to the green belt and the limits of Article 4 directions over use class changes in Wales; the government’s Pride in Place programme; PINS’ guidance on terminology for Crown development applications; and the new marine case management system platform.