England: The Government (DEFRA) have published and laid before parliament the regulations which make changes to the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regime which will come into effect on Thursday 6 August 2026. The key change our clients will want to know about is confirmation of the new 0.2 hectare exemption, […]
England: The Planning Inspectorate has recently given details of significant changes to the planning appeal system, which will be applicable to appeals made in respect of planning applications submitted on or after 1st April 2026. This follows the making of The Town and Country Planning (Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) […]
England: On 24th March 2024, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities published a technical consultation response concerning the introduction of the Building Safety Levy in England, which is now expected to be introduced in Autumn 2026. The Building Safety Act 2022 introduced powers to impose a levy on […]
England: The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has published a consultation which proposes to introduce a requirement to obtain planning permissions for short term lets, such as Air BNBs, in tourist hot spots within England. The DLUHC consultation, which is open until 7th June 2023, explains that […]
England: The Government have just published the 2020 Housing Delivery Test (HDT) results for English local authorities. The purpose of the table is to track how each Local Planning Authority is doing in terms of its housing delivery, and expose those which are failing. The implications of the HDT 2020 results […]
England: Following the Court of Appeal judgement in May 2016 to allow the reinstatement of the Government’s national 10-unit affordable housing threshold to its Planning Practice Guidance, we have been very busy renegotiating extant planning permissions for our clients to remove previously agreed affordable housing contributions. Through our expert use of […]
England: Following their success in the Court of Appeal as we reported last week, the Government has returned the national 10-unit affordable housing threshold to its Planning Practice Guidance making it clear to Council’s that this is once again adopted Government policy which they must take into account in making […]
England: The Court of Appeal has just handed down judgement in the Governments’s appeal against the West Berkshire and Reading judicial review judgement of 31 July 2015 (see our post here). The appeal has been allowed which reverses the original judgement thus effectively reinstating the Government’s policies which were originally introduced […]
England: After much speculation, permitted development rights to allow the conversion of offices (Use Class B1(a)) to residential (Use Class C3) have been made permanent by the Government with effect from 6 April 2016. Temporary permitted development rights allowing the conversion of office buildings were first introduced by coalition Government in 2013 […]
England: In a statement made yesterday, the Government has announced that the temporary permitted development right allowing the change of use of offices to residential dwellings will definitely now be made permanent. Further details have been provided today in the form of a statement by Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis. […]
