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‘Inspector orders £3m Mayfair townhouse owner to destroy illegal 80sqm basement and pay costs to council’
News of a planning inspector ordering the owner of an expensive townhouse in west London to fill in his 80 square metre ...
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Proposed new surcharge on application fees could be used to fund training to help authorities ‘better engage’ with statutory consultees
The housing minister has said the government’s proposed surcharge on planning application fees could be used to fund training ...
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Tory MPs blast government plans to limit planning decisions made by committee members as an ‘attack on democracy’
The government’s plan to introduce a national scheme of delegation that would restrict the number and type of planning ...
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High Court issues four-month suspended jail term to woman for ignoring national park mobile home injunction
A caravan owner has “narrowly” avoided prison after ignoring a court injunction to remove her mobile home from a national ...
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Khan warns boroughs that he will use call-in powers unless they take ‘much more flexible’ approach to granting permissions
The London mayor has warned the capital’s boroughs that he will use his powers to call-in planning applications for his own ...
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High Court issues four-month suspended jail term to woman for ignoring injunction to remove mobile home from national park
A caravan owner has “narrowly” avoided prison after ignoring a court injunction to remove her mobile home from a national ...
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London’s green belt could sustain hundreds of thousands of new homes, Khan says
The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has claimed that developing on “carefully chosen areas” of the capital’s green belt land could ...