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Planning policy

December 2024

  • Keir Starmer meets Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says UK strengthening defence partnership with Saudi Arabia as charities criticise human rights record – as it happened

  • Simon Jenkins

    Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy

    Simon Jenkins
  • Angela Rayner in a black hardhat and hi-vis jacket

    Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner

  • John Harris

    Labour’s big Farage problem has a simple solution: build, build, build

    John Harris

  • ‘Don’t dodge your responsibilities,’ Starmer warns English councils that block new homes

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    PCS union says Starmer’s criticism of civil servants ‘inaccurate and cowardly’ – as it happened

  • Call for greener planning rules after M&S London redevelopment given go-ahead

  • Radical planning reform needed to hit 1.5m housebuilding target in England, Labour warned

November 2024

  • Houses under construction

    Cambridge water credits are a gift for developers

  • Aerial top down view of an expensive, small private housing estate in rural Essex.

    There’s no point building homes that people can’t afford

  • Polly Toynbee

    In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution

    Polly Toynbee
  • A curved structure passing over a railway line

    Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

  • Planning rules have failed to link new homes to public transport, report finds

  • China blocking UK plans in Beijing amid east London mega-embassy dispute

  • Labour MPs push back against anti-pylon lobbying despite local opposition

  • Downsizing the Australian dream: why families are trading houses with back yards for apartments

  • Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism

October 2024

  • Aerial view of the carpark at Manningtree Station with Dedham Vale in the background.

    Essex car park to be test case for legislation to protect landscapes

    Campaigners say car park extension at Manningtree station inhibits access to Dedham Vale and threatens habitats
  • Rachel Reeves delivers the budget in the House of Commons

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Autumn budget: Rachel Reeves raises taxes by £40bn and increases spending on NHS and schools – as it happened

    Chancellor announces changes to employers’ national insurance contributions, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and other duties
  • A housing development in Nottingham

    Include gardens in new rules for UK housebuilders, green groups urge

    RHS says ensuring access to green space as part of housebuilding push could make Britons healthier
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