Yet the government’s laudable aims could be undermined by a more fundamental blocker: the chronic lack of capacity in the planning system. While Westminster is now showing a healthy ambition for ...

The Government has been urged to delay a long-awaited overhaul of the planning system, after senior planners found key parts of the new regime were “unworkable”. The intervention by the Irish ...

James Lance has said the water slides in a field near Bodmin would reopen on 24 May The owner of a tourist attraction said it would reopen next month despite being refused planning permission.

The CMA’s report noted that some housebuilders did hold land for long periods — which can mean local housing needs go unmet — but said this was incentivised by the uncertain planning system.

The former deputy commissioner of the NSW Police, Nick Kaldas, will conduct an audit into corruption risks in the state’s planning system, following a string of high-profile scandals.