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Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

James Goldthorpe, Emyr Thomas and Alastair Lewis set out where the government’s Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (“NSIPs”) reforms have reached, the implications of the changes made to date and how the latest consultation “beyond NSIPS” could allow the government to build on the progress which has already been made this Parliament. Promising to streamline the planning process for…

August 21, 2026

Reforms to the NSIP Regime (and Beyond…)

News

Council rules out judicial review of approval of solar farm due to “insufficient grounds”

August 26, 2026

Government consults on standard s106 planning agreements for medium-sized sites

August 25, 2026

Campaigners and council bring legal challenge over grant of planning permission for 975-home scheme on land owned by charity

August 25, 2026

Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal in s70C ‘two bites at the cherry’ dispute

Aug 24, 2026

Mayors in England to be handed ‘call in’ powers over key planning decisions in their areas

Aug 24, 2026

Welsh Government consults on revision to National Development Framework

Aug 20, 2026

Judge rejects bid to challenge decision to decline to determine application for retrospective planning permission for Traveller site

Aug 20, 2026

Welsh Ministers defend challenge to refusal of permission for 18 wind turbines

Aug 20, 2026

Revised NPPF clarifies roles of different types of plans and considerations in decision-making, Minister tells councils

Aug 20, 2026

Government insists press reports claiming revised National Planning Policy Framework makes it easier to approve unauthorised Traveller sites are “wrong”

Aug 19, 2026

Revised National Planning Policy Framework to introduce default ‘yes’ for homes near well-connected stations

Aug 17, 2026

High Court refuses permission for challenge to decision not to take enforcement action against breaches of planning control

Aug 14, 2026

Parish council fails in legal challenge over approval for sand and gravel extraction at former airfield

Aug 14, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to council declining to determine planning application despite change in national Green Belt policy

Aug 14, 2026

High Court judge rejects legal challenge over £295k Community Infrastructure Levy demand

Aug 13, 2026

Defendant given suspended sentence after bringing caravans onto land in breach of planning injunction

Aug 12, 2026

Vape shops to require planning permission under Government plans to boost high streets

Aug 11, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to lawfulness of grant of planning permission claimed to be 'inconsistent' with previous decisions

Aug 10, 2026

District council faces legal challenge over approval of intensive poultry unit expansion

Aug 07, 2026

Campaigners to appeal rejection of legal challenge over grant of planning permission for Chinese embassy

Aug 07, 2026

London borough to become interested party in legal challenge over 850-home Peckham redevelopment refusal

Aug 06, 2026

Developer wins High Court statutory review challenge over highways impacts

Aug 06, 2026

Council to quash salmon farm permission over lack of environmental impact assessment

Aug 06, 2026

Claimants fail in legal challenge to permission for 185,000m² of warehousing on greenfield land

Aug 06, 2026

Supreme Court refuses to hear application for extension of time to appeal in Luton Airport expansion case

Aug 04, 2026

Judges dismiss legal challenge over grant of permission for new Chinese embassy

Jul 31, 2026

Court of Appeal order brings end to decade-long planning dispute over site of photography studio

Jul 30, 2026

High Court grants permission to house builders for challenge over Article 31 order by Transport Secretary on development site

Jul 30, 2026

Tottenham Hotspur academy permission quashed after council backs out of judicial review

Jul 27, 2026

High Court dismisses challenge to grant of permission for 250-home scheme despite lack of flood sequential test

Jul 27, 2026

Chief Planning Officer warns councils to act ahead of 31 October deadline for planning committee changes

Jul 24, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to adoption of West Suffolk local plan

Jul 23, 2026

City council loses appeal over mortgagee exclusion clauses and section 106 agreements

Jul 23, 2026

Mayor of London revises affordable housing quota decision following legal challenge

Jul 22, 2026

Planning minister intervenes in Basildon local plan

Jul 22, 2026

Minister urges planning inspectors to adopt pragmatic approach in respect of deliverability and viability when examining local plans

Jul 20, 2026

Government consults on extending judicial review reforms to major housing, transport and energy developments

Jul 17, 2026

High Court orders appeal over enforcement notice to be redetermined

Jul 16, 2026

Judge quashes grant of planning permission for extension over 45-degree rule

Jul 16, 2026

High Court rejects challenge to Forestry Commission tree planting decision

Jul 10, 2026

Council designates market as Asset of Community Value

Jul 09, 2026

Planning committee approves, rescinds and then defers decision in matter of minutes

Jul 09, 2026

High Court refuses permission for Oxford United stadium judicial review

Jul 07, 2026

Must read

Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Why Local Authorities Cannot Afford to Wait

The UK Government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is likely to mark a significant shift in regulatory expectations. Jonathan Askin, Partner at Hugh James, explores the reasons why.

Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Why Local Authorities Cannot Afford to Wait

Features

Quashing of timely prior approval and the deemed consent rule

Quashing of timely prior approval and the deemed consent rule

August 13, 2026

The High Court has confirmed that the quashing of a local planning authority’s timely notification of prior approval does not retrospectively trigger the 56-day deemed consent rule in Schedule 2, Part 3, paragraph W(11) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (GPDO), writes Ruchi Parekh.

Alteration to the design of plans

Alteration to the design of plans

August 12, 2026

Victoria Hamblen examines a recent Court of Appeal ruling in which the judges unanimously allowed a council's appeal over an alteration to the design of HS2 plans.

It’s academic

It’s academic

August 12, 2026

Judicial review of Temporary Stop Notices (TSN) is rare; a recent judgment is a reminder of why that is, writes Roderick Morton.

Biodiversity Net Gain: 2026 changes for LPAs

Biodiversity Net Gain: 2026 changes for LPAs

August 07, 2026

Helen Gill sets out the key changes to the biodiversity net gain regime affecting local planning authorities.

Interpretation of s.106 agreements

Interpretation of s.106 agreements

Jul 31, 2026

Certificates of Appropriate Alternative Developments – the cancelled scheme world

Certificates of Appropriate Alternative Developments – the cancelled scheme world

Jul 31, 2026

Lessons from the Brockwell Park judicial review litigation

Lessons from the Brockwell Park judicial review litigation 

Jul 24, 2026

The exceptions to inappropriate development in the Green Belt

The exceptions to inappropriate development in the Green Belt

Jul 23, 2026

Are Minerals still “essential”?

Are Minerals still “essential”?

Jul 17, 2026

Draft planning committee reports: sharing is caring

Jul 16, 2026

Assessing logistics proposals

Jul 16, 2026

Minerals webinar series - Part 1: Minerals plan-making: the next phase

Jul 14, 2026

When is a dwellinghouse not a dwellinghouse?

Jul 10, 2026

Roles for members in the new delegated arrangements for planning decisions

Jul 03, 2026

Planning enforcement and lawfulness cases

Jul 03, 2026

Route 62A

Jun 25, 2026

Streamlining the planning system: the new National Delegation Scheme

Jun 11, 2026

Keeping up: JR changes, deadlines

Jun 11, 2026

Applying the principles in Holborn Studios

Jun 11, 2026

Refusal to take planning enforcement action

Jun 05, 2026

Building Liability Orders (BLOs) – Crest Nicholson v Ardmore

Jun 04, 2026

Look, no hands

May 29, 2026

Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Why Local Authorities Cannot Afford to Wait

May 20, 2026

Household waste sites and national landscapes

May 15, 2026

Webinars

Minerals webinar series - Part 1: Minerals plan-making: the next phase

Watch Landmark Chambers' first part of its Minerals webinar series, recorded on 8 June 2026.

Boundary line lessons from White v Alder [2025] EWCA Civ 392

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill – what’s in, what’s out and will it work?

Planning Case Law Update

Local Authority Insight Series: Regeneration and the local authority estate

Construction Law Update

Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy Update

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Walker Morris supports Tower Hamlets Council in first known Remediation Contribution Order application issued by local authority

Walker Morris has supported Tower Hamlets London Borough Council (LBTH) in issuing what is believed to be one of the first Remediation…

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