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.

An electricity supplier has been refused permission to take Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to judicial review despite the council’s failure to publish a local press notice concerning a planning application.

The Welsh Government has applied to the Supreme Court to appeal a Court of Appeal decision that found Wrexham Borough Council did not have to adopt its local development plan (LDP) despite a High Court judge previously saying otherwise.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has launched an inquiry that will consider potential new mechanisms for land value capture (LVC) in order to help boost house building and fund affordable housing and public infrastructure.

The Government has committed to reducing the number of permission stages against Development Consent Orders (DCOs) issued for large infrastructure projects in an attempt to keep nationally significant schemes from being held up by legal disputes.

Planning permission to expand a poultry farm in Monmouthshire has been quashed by the High Court after the county council agreed the decision failed to comply with the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017.

A parish council has successfully challenged Guildford Borough Council's decision to approve a five-home development after arguing it conflicted with a local development plan policy aimed at protecting a river conservation area.

The Law Society has said it disagrees with the recommendations of an independent review that suggested raising the permission threshold for judicial reviews against development consent orders (DCOs).

Enfield Council has served a planning enforcement notice on a landlord unlawfully operating a former police station building as a hostel.

Developers who were told to demolish a 23-storey residential development over "significant deviations" from the original planning permission have successfully appealed the decision to the Planning Inspectorate.

High-profile planning barrister Christopher Katkowski KC has been made a CBE for his services to Planning in the New Year Honours List 2025.

Runnymede District Council has been taken to judicial review by local activists in a dispute over a listed redundant church building.

A local campaign group has started legal action to challenge the validity of 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 Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a Plaid Cymru councillor who challenged an order made by a High Court judge that Wrexham County Borough Council had no discretion but to adopt its local plan.

The High Court is set to hear a statutory review challenge against a development plan agreed upon by nine Greater Manchester authorities.

The Law Commission has published a consultation paper on compulsory purchase, as part of its review of the current "complex and inaccessible" law on compulsory purchase and compensation.

The Government has detailed a series of reforms aimed at expanding and simplifying compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) in a consultation launched today (19 December).

Hillingdon Council secured a High Court injunction this month to prevent the unauthorised parking of more than 300 vehicles on green belt land in Harlington.

Homes England has set up a database of available Section 106 housing opportunities across England, excluding London.

The Government has published its revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), confirming the re-introduction of mandatory housing targets and the introduction of so-called 'Grey Belt' land, alongside new 'golden rules' for building on the Green Belt.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government over a Deputy High Court judge’s decision to extend time for the service of a claim form where the underlying claim was a planning statutory review under s.288 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Test Valley Borough Council has lost a case in the Court of Appeal over the use of section 73 of the Town and County Planning Act 1990.

Bromley Council has successfully prosecuted supermarket giant Tesco after one of its stores failed to comply with a planning condition that specified it could only make deliveries via a certain road.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has unveiled proposals to overhaul the role of planning committees, with changes that could see decisions bypass committees entirely if applications comply with local development plans.