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The most important news stories from the past two weeks 1 - Lords vote to let councils decide affordable quotas Elements of the Housing and Planning Bill's Starter Homes provisions [...]

In resisting plans for up to 164 homes, a Lancashire council has persuaded an inspector that a housing land supply backlog should be spread over its whole local plan period. [...]

Unresolved traffic impact and layout issues have led to dismissal of plans for 220 homes, including a significant affordable proportion, in Kent. The scheme, proposed on farmland and a school [...]

Harm to heritage significance has seen proposals for clearance and redevelopment of an inner city area in Liverpool ruled out. The mainly residential area included Beatle Ringo Starr's birthplace The [...]

Issues are presented concerning the management of regional planning in the South West of England. The reaction of local planning authorities to the large number of new houses which government requires to be built in the area is discussed.

New plans for a 669-home development on the Ram Brewery site in south-west London have been submitted to the London Borough of Wandsworth after a previous proposal for the site [...]

A reporter has refused to sanction the use of cement render at a listed house on Scotland's east coast, finding that the material could bring about the decay of stone [...]

London mayor Boris Johnson has decided not to object to the height of a 55-storey tower next to East Croydon station nor to the number of affordable homes proposed for [...]

The golden age of home ownership is coming to an end, housing professionals claimed this week. The stark warning by the Chartered Institute of Housing came as it called on [...]

West Lindsey District Council has granted outline permission for 2,500 homes in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. The development on land south of Foxby Lane will also include shops, two schools and a [...]

The London Borough of Lambeth has approved plans for a pounds 114 million private finance initiative housing scheme. The project will revamp the Myatts Field North housing estate in Brixton [...]

London mayor Boris Johnson has been slammed by the London Assembly for failing to meet his affordable housing target. Johnson had pledged to provide 50,000 affordable homes by 2011. Deputy [...]

An inspector has ruled that a local authority in Dorset failed to serve a copy of an enforcement notice against a dwelling being used for commercial storage of building equipment [...]

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An inspector has agreed that an appropriately worded condition would ensure that 13 homes in Devon can be built safely but ruled that two dwellings would adversely affect the long-term [...]

Bournemouth Borough Council is considering a 40 per cent affordable housing target for all developments, despite challenges to similar policies elsewhere. The authority already applies the target to schemes of [...]

Countryside Properties and housing association L&Q have submitted outline plans for a neighbourhood of 4,000 homes in north-east Chelmsford. The pounds 1 billion scheme would enlarge the Beaulieu Park area, [...]

Changes to the planning system are still failing to make an impact on the ground, according to the new chairman of house building body Homes for Scotland. Stewart Milne Homes [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government has overturned an inspector's recommendation to allow an appeal for a mixed-use scheme based around a reservoir on the fringes of Cardiff. The scheme comprised housing, [...]

When it comes to action to save our ailing countryside, there is one crucial piece of advice - don't hold your breath. Take the shambles that is affordable housing provision [...]

Plans for a 62-storey tower and affordable housing development in London's Docklands have been put on hold by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Some 100 objectors attended a strategic [...]

Proposals to build more than 10,000 houses as an urban extension to south-west Bristol look set to be challenged by the local authority. North Somerset Council opposes plans contained in [...]

Scotland's housing supply task force has called for a campaign to win public support for home building in its final report. The group began work in 2007 looking at problems [...]

Spatial planning could form a key part of the embryonic Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)'s 'single conversation' strategy, Planning has learnt. The HCA devised the term to explain how it [...]

Six 20,000-home towns could be created in the East of England and three regional centres doubled in size, according to a major study seen by Planning. Consultancy Arup's brief for [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government is seeking to introduce powers to preserve social housing stock. The draft affordable housing legislative competence order would enable councils to suspend the right to buy, [...]

Just two of London's 33 boroughs have agreed to affordable housing targets set out by mayor Boris Johnson, Planning has learnt. Delivery targets for 2008-11 were released for negotiation by [...]

Proposals to raise the West Midlands regional spatial strategy (RSS) housing target by more than a fifth have been formally opposed by its own regional assembly. The West Midlands Regional [...]

The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management has slammed eco-towns for not providing a solution to realising zero carbon communities. The organisation has called on the government to focus [...]

Consultation on powers to boost affordable homes in rural communities was launched by the DCLG this week. Under the proposals, areas with severe housing shortages could be designated as protected, [...]

Campaigners against a proposed eco-town at Pennbury, Leicestershire, have raised concerns over additional land for housing and park-and-ride sites. The Campaign Against the Stoughton Co-op Eco-Town (CASCET) claimed that the [...]

North and south have united in deriding a report advocating the end of regeneration spending in northern towns in favour of massive housing expansion in the south. The study, issued [...]

When MP Matthew Taylor launched his review of rural communities last month he voiced one aspiration above all others - that its findings should not be allowed to gather dust. [...]

Proposals aimed at boosting affordable rural housing have been set out by the Welsh Assembly Government. Environment, sustainability and housing minister Jane Davidson launched a consultation this week on changes [...]

A scheme in Inverness comprising a discount food store, various commercial units and 19 flats has been allowed after a reporter held that some affordable housing should be provided. The [...]

White Young Green (WYG) has lodged an application for a large mixed-use development in Maidstone town centre, including a 100 per cent affordable housing element. Landowner Kilmerlin Danesmount Maidstone Ltd [...]

A partnership to build 50,000 more affordable homes in London over the next three years was outlined last week. The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) will work with mayor Ken [...]

The London Borough of Southwark is considering two alternatives to Berkeley Homes' pounds 200 million Potters Field scheme next to City Hall. London mayor Ken Livingstone threatened to issue a [...]

A plan to develop 800 homes in seven pit villages was one of nine projects commended by the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) this week. Durham City Council and Keepmoat [...]

Plans for more than 6,500 homes in the western expansion area of Milton Keynes were given the green light this week. Milton Keynes Partnership backed the Gallagher Estates scheme, which [...]

Plans to build a 2,000-home extension of Horsham are to be put out for public consultation next week. Horsham District Council is seeking views on the draft masterplan for land [...]

Seven developers were shortlisted this week to deliver the first site that will achieve the top level of the code for sustainable homes. They are bidding to build the 150-home [...]

It is not just the skies that have been inundating us recently but the flood of government proposals on the planning front, Rynd Smith observes. At last, the RTPI policy [...]

The government has backed a pounds 140 million project to transform a 50ha brownfield site in Sutton, St Helens. The secretary of state approved Banks Developments' Moss Nock scheme after [...]

Milton Keynes Partnership handed an advisory document to the government's South East Plan examination in public panel this week. The paper suggests a long-term vision of how the city could [...]

More than 50 homes are to be built on disused land by the Huddersfield Canal at Mossley in Greater Manchester now that developer Rowland Homes has been given the go-ahead [...]

After this government's most turbulent period in office to date, the smoke signals were not encouraging. Yet the shake-out of departmental responsibilities following last month's series of ministerial pratfalls has [...]

A mixed-use development at Snape Maltings near the River Alde in Suffolk has secured planning permission. The scheme features approximately 65 homes, numerous shops and a major expansion of the [...]

How many houses should we build? Where? How can they be provided? Are we building estates or making communities? All of these issues and more will be the focus of [...]

West Northamptonshire's urban development corporation (UDC) will deliver housing growth, infrastructure and jobs, regeneration minister Jeff Rooker has pledged. The UDC, which was officially established last month after the conclusion [...]