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Planning policy

October 2024

  • Bellway construction site

    Bellway hails planning changes as councils get £68m for brownfield homes

  • Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves at the Labour party conference in September.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened

  • Cynthia Erivo painted green in a witch's outfit and and Ariana Grande (in a pink dress, right) in Wicked, filmed at Sky Elstree Studios.

    Labour push for growth spurs Sky appeal against block on film studios expansion

  • New homes under construction

    Government housing targets unrealistic and unfair, English councils warn

  • Angela Rayner reconsiders rejected application for Marlow film studio

  • ‘Fix u up’: former suburban Melbourne mayor traded favours for cocaine, corruption watchdog finds

September 2024

  • Housing Development in Felixstowe

    Labour needs to build neighbourhoods, not just houses

  • New houses being built

    Labour’s planning policy changes are welcome, but won’t deliver enough homes

  • Angela Rayner speaking during the Labour conference in Liverpool on Sunday.

    Angela Rayner hints at major social housing announcement

  • Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour conference: No 10 braced for potential defeat on winter fuel allowance vote as trade unions set to back motion – as it happened

  • ‘Horrendous’: rise in tourism stokes local tensions in Lake District town

  • Loch Lomond Flamingo Land plan rejected after fierce opposition

  • Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

  • ‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof

  • Low-carbon homes can save £1,341 in bills and should be compulsory, study shows

  • Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-belt land

    Geoffrey Lean
  • The UK housing crisis
    Can new towns give Keir Starmer the answer to Britain’s housing crisis?

August 2024

  • USA. Director- James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the set of the (C)Paramount Pictures movie: Titanic (1997 )

    UK film studio developers to appeal against rejection of £750m project

    Move by Hollywood-backed Marlow Film Studios seen as test of Labour’s push to prioritise economic growth
  • Come on in, the water’s lovely … Sandkaj harbour bath is one of several architect-designed options for public swimming in Copenhagen, and the water quality is monitored on a dedicated app.

    Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable

    Campaigners and architects around the world are turning previously polluted rivers and harbours into the perfect places for a refreshing dip. So will we soon be swimming to work?
  • Homes under construction in Kingsmere in Oxfordshire.

    Angela Rayner told new towns plan risks missing England housing targets

    Exclusive: Centre for Cities analysis shows more new towns would have to be built than ever before to dent 1.5m target
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