A decision to grant planning permission for up to 1,500 new homes in West Yorkshire is set to be challenged in the High Court after campaigners received permission last month for their judicial review challenge to be heard.

A High Court judge has issued a quashing order after Southwark Council conceded that its decision to grant permission for an infill development on a London council estate breached national planning policy.

A High Court judge has rejected an assertion that a warning by a council of continuing proceedings and the associated costs had “coerced” the defendants in a planning enforcement dispute into providing undertakings.

The Supreme Court will next week hand down its much anticipated ruling in a dispute about whether Tower Hamlets Council was entitled to make a rule that only councillors who had been present when a planning application had previously been considered could vote on deferred applications.

Cheltenham Borough Council has taken the usual step of appealing a case in which it was successful because of concern that the Planning Court’s ruling would have meant the potential impact of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) on medical implants would always be a material planning consideration.

A new streamlined process for environmental regulations will be implemented for major projects and habitats regulations concerning bats are to be reviewed, the Government has said.

A property owner has lost a High Court case in which it argued that planning consent for a residential project should have been given by Broxtowe Borough Council since this was the only feasible route to financing clearance of Japanese knotweed, which infests the site.

Campaigners against a proposed tower block have instructed Public Interest Law Centre to act for them against Manchester City Council.

Herefordshire Council acted lawfully when it used planning policy to try to control agricultural waste, the High Court has found.

East Herts District Council is facing a judicial review action over planning consents for part of the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town project.

A local amenity group has lost a High Court challenge to Oxford City Council’s decision to give itself planning consent for a new bridge.

A national scheme of delegation setting out which types of applications should be determined by officers and which should go to committee, controls over the size of planning committees that will see “unwieldy” committees banned, and mandatory training for planning committee members are among the reforms set out in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill introduced in Parliament today (11 March).

A number of organisations including Sport England, the Theatres Trust and the Gardens Trust will no longer be required to input on planning decisions, while the scope of other statutory consultees will be narrowed to focus on heritage, safety and environmental protection, under plans put forward by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Police could be called into Harborough District Council after a draft local plan was leaked days before it was set to be discussed in public, the council's leader is reported to have said.

A local objector to Gwynedd Council’s policy on planning for holiday homes has won the right to take the authority to judicial review after a judge said he was “just persuaded” this was the right course.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has issued an intervention notice directing South Tyneside Council to submit its existing draft local plan for examination, following a decision by councillors to reject a draft plan last week.

Tributes have been paid to leading planning and public law barrister Jonathan Easton KC, who passed away at the weekend.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has told planning authorities and other stakeholders “to focus energy and resources on working with the government to deliver the ambition of local plans and minerals and waste plans that are routinely prepared and adopted in 30 months”.

The Local Government Association has said that in principle, a national scheme of delegation could be supported to drive clarity and consistency across planning committees and to improve speed and efficiencies in decision-making for local authorities.

A Planning Court judge has given campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) permission to bring a legal challenge over the Mayor of London’s decision to grant planning permission for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC)’s proposed redevelopment of the former Wimbledon Park golf course.

The City of London Corporation is facing a potential judicial review of its decision to approve the demolition of the former Museum of London and Bastion House and redevelopment of the site into three office buildings.

The Government should explore the introduction of new laws to force developers to build within a certain time frame of securing planning permission, or face sanctions, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has suggested.

More than 100 sites across England have been put forward for consideration to be part of the next generation of new towns, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has said.

The Planning Court has quashed the grant of planning permission for a multi-million pound extension of a caravan park, following a legal challenge brought by local residents.

A council has made a referral to the police amid concerns that objections to a planning application for a new sports facility may not have been made by the person whose name was registered to the objection.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has published an AI Playbook, setting out ten principles civil servants should uphold when using AI.

The Supreme Court will next week consider whether Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (“the Habitats Regulations”) require an ‘appropriate assessment’ to be undertaken for subsequent approvals after the grant of outline planning permission at a further consent stage, i.e. at the approval of reserved matters and discharge of conditions stages.

Some 140 registered providers and more than 70 local authorities have registered as potential buyers through Homes England’s new section 106 affordable housing clearing service in its first 50 days.

Government plans to change the judicial review process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) could risk "sidelining public accountability, diluting the rule of law and causing practical issues in the courts", a legal reform group has warned.