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Housing Supply: Osbourne outlines further planning reform in treasury paper ‘fixing the foundations’

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Exeter fails in High Court challenge regarding student accommodation and housing supply

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Planning: New commercial into residential (Class MA) Permitted Development rights

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Planning & nitrate neutrality: Legal challenge to Natural England’s guidance

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Courts rule on indirect Environmental Harm

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Community Infrastructure Levy – some recent decisions from PINS

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High Court dismisses campaigners’ bid to overturn new permitted development rights and use class changes

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The winners of the 2020 Michelmores Property Awards revealed

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The new Planning Use Classes- challenging new revisions

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General Permitted Development Order: September changes to the Use Class Order

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Planning for Change – Radical Change and Helping Businesses Get Back to Work

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Planning: Potential to improve a Class Q consent

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Planning Briefing: vacant building credit and reductions in affordable housing obligations

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Trees and encroachment – getting to the root of the problem

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) – effect on rural businesses

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