This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: draft Regulations proposing increases to planning application fees in England, Defra guidance on mandatory biodiversity net gain for NSIPs, and development consent for the One Earth Solar Farm.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the passing into law of the Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 in England and the Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026 in Wales, a Court of Appeal decision upholding a certificate of lawfulness, a High Court decision grappling with the overlap between planning and licensing controls in noise cases, and publication of a carbon benchmarking tool for local transport infrastructure.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of a working paper on further reforms to the infrastructure planning system, confirmation that the government will take forward reforms to the judicial review process for development consent orders, and confirmation by HM Treasury of planning reforms and publication of the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of the High Court judgments quashing the planning permission for Tottenham Hotspur’s new training ground, ruling on apparent bias in enforcement decisions, and the significance of the decision to enter land onto the brownfield register for local plan allocation decisions, and new and updated guidance and advice on the regime for obtaining development consent under the Planning Act 2008.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on the lawfulness of the decision to re-grant development consent for Manston Airport; designation of the National Networks National Policy Statement; regulations setting out requirements for the management of hedgerows on agricultural land; and the upgrading of over 140 wastewater treatment works in areas affected by nutrient neutrality advice.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a temporary London housing support package with 50% CIL cut and relaxed design rules; a Commons Committee report on recommended reforms to sectin 106 agreements, CIL, viability policy and the New Towns programme; the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 consequential amendments order; an updated pre-application prospectus for NSIPs; a High Court case on the approach to the ‘exceptional circumstances’ test in Green Belt boundary changes; and the House of Lords Built Environment Committee report on new towns.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes an analysis of a Supreme Court decision on distance requirements for crematory buildings, publication of the PINS Business Plan for 2025–26, Wales’ planning appeals process guidance, the hospitality sector’s new National Licensing Policy Framework, planning reforms recommendations aimed at supporting sustainable growth in England's industrial clusters, a Court of Appeal decision upholding a Ministerial Planning Statement against community objections, publication of Defra’s policy paper on identifying and selecting compensatory MPAs linked to offshore wind developments, an Administrative Court decision to uphold the lawfulness of decision not to hold public inquiry on water resources plan.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: key planning announcements in the Autumn Budget; a report on recommendations to streamline the judicial review process in the NSIP regime; the coming into force of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023; PINS guidance on good design for NSIPs; and Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 regulations.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: the end of the temporary exemption from BNG for small developments, development consent for the HyNet Carbon Dioxide Pipeline, and updates to Approved Document B.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: consultations on emergency measures to support housebuilding in London; guidance documents to launch the revised local plan-making system; a court decision confirming that a staged approach to appropriate assessment is lawful and the announcement that the Heathrow expansion plan will form the basis of the Airports National Policy Statement review.

This week's edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: analysis of the Supreme Court decision in Finch, and analysis of a case on the legality of the grant of a lease of part of a park.

This week’s edition of Planning weekly highlights includes: a court dismissal of a solar farm challenge; draft regulations and statutory guidance on the national scheme of delegation of planning functions in England; a new guidance collection on BNG for NSIPs and housing land supply evidence templates for local plan examinations.