Skip to main content

Planning Law

New towns: a shift towards devolved delivery?

A group of people standing around a table, collaborating on documents and charts.

Planning Committees rebel against new National Scheme of Delegation

Two people use pencils to review a land development plan on a large paper map spread across a desk.

Contractual Control Rights: preparing for the new reporting requirements

Aerial view of a new housing development with multiple tan-brick houses, fenced gardens, and construction activity in the background.

Changes to planning rules: For farms and rural businesses

Aerial view of a residential construction site featuring multiple houses in various stages of completion surrounded by scaffolding.

Appeals and section 106 planning obligations: An important change in the rules

A person in a white shirt and black shorts and a person in a white sports top and skirt standing on a tennis court, each holding a tennis racquet.

Redeveloping a sports club: Turning property value into a sustainable future

A large wind turbine stands in the middle of golden fields at sunset, surrounded by patchwork farmland and a colourful sky.

New NPPF strengthens planning support for renewable energy

Houses and fields shown from the sky by drone give a unique perspective on UK life on the suburbs

The National Planning Policy Framework 2026

A close-up of a vintage map showing the British Isles, including Ireland, Great Britain, and surrounding seas, with labelled cities, bodies of water, and geographic features.

One authority, one plan? England’s Local Government shake-up confirmed

Close-up view of several stacked server racks with blurred lights and reflections, showing orange and blue components in a data centre environment.

Data centres and energy developers: why co-location is becoming a strategic opportunity

Top view, construction workers or blueprint planning in house, home or office building in real estate, property or architecture innovation

Proposed draft Nature Restoration Levy Regulations 2026

Vibrant green crops, ploughed fields and pasture, hedgerows and woodland surrounding farms and country homes beside an idyllic rural patchwork quilt landscape from high above.

Environmental Delivery Plans and the Nature Restoration Levy: what’s new?

Drone view of new housing development being built in the UK

The likely effects of the new call-in Direction

Three cows stand near a barbed wire fence in a green grassy field, with trees and buildings in the background under a partly cloudy sky—a reminder of the importance of animal liability when keeping livestock close to property boundaries.

Send out the myrmidons! Rights of way disputes, and how to avoid them

Aerial view of the tanks of a UK sewage and water treatment plant enabling the discharge and re-use of waste water and re-use of waste water

A new vision for water: what the 2026 White Paper means for developers

1 2 … 7