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The government this week responded to a consultation and published new guidance on changes to planning committees, including a national scheme of delegation. Here are seven things we learned.
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The government has confirmed proposals to create a development corporation for Cambridge and the area around it with plan-making and development management powers.
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A planning KC who is currently involved in a call-in inquiry to determine plans for a proposed 8,500-home garden village in the Home Counties has been elected a governing bencher of the Middle Temple.
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An associate director has left multidisciplinary firm Stantec to set up her own planning consultancy.
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A multidisciplinary construction consultancy has hired a planning consultant who focuses on energy infrastructure schemes.
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EXCLUSIVE: A council has revealed that its planning enforcement backlog has increased by 20 per cent in the last four months and has now reached 1,200 outstanding cases, despite using an enforcement officer from another local authority to tackle it.
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An employment tribunal has awarded a female planning officer more than £37,000 after finding that a local authority placed her on a lower pay grade than a former male colleague despite her performing equivalent work.
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A High Court judge has blocked a council from submitting its draft local plan for examination until a judicial review challenge against the document by a campaign group on environmental assessment grounds is resolved.
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The planning minister has announced the appointment of a new chair of the Planning Inspectorate board.
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The government has pushed back the date for introducing the national scheme of delegation by a month while warning that councils that don’t amend their constitutions to align with it may face the prospect of judicial reviews.
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Some 17 of the 20 local authorities that saw their local housing need (LHN) figures drop the most as a result of changes to baseline dwelling stock and affordability ratios were located in London, research by a planning consultancy has shown.
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The mayor of London has vowed to “work closely” alongside the government with councillors at a council “to further develop plans” at a site shortlisted as a new town, despite the council’s new leader announcing it had “formally withdrawn” from the program.
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Plans for a 1,400-home project on land immediately next to HS2 have been consented seven-and-a-half years after a land promoter submitted the outline planning application, but just two months on from a planning committee decision to resolve to approve it.
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A woman could face up to two years in prison after being found in contempt of court over her continued occupation of a home that she illegally built without planning permission and concealed within a barn.
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The government has dropped proposals to mandate the installation of solar panels on new outdoor car parks.

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A council that hosts a proposed new town on the government’s shortlist of preferred sites has announced that it has “formally withdrawn” from the programme following a change in political control at this month’s local elections.

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A council’s planning committee has refused plans for a 95,000-square metre industrial scheme on a 31-hectare site allocated for employment use in a joint local plan against the advice of officers, with members citing harm to biodiversity and the landscape
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NEW Enfield Council's new Tory-led administration has told the government that it has “formally withdrawn” from the New Towns programme

Members did not get to vote on the decision and there are “no plans” to hold one “at this stage”, the council told me
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A councillor at a county-wide unitary authority has claimed that members have been advised not to report new cases of planning breaches to officers due to “underresourcing” in its enforcement team.

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The annual UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) took place in Leeds last week. Here are five things senior Reform UK figures told delegates about their thinking on planning.

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