Crawley Borough Council are in the process of reviewing their Local Plan to ensure that it is up to date, consistent with national policy and addresses local issues which may have developed since the Local Plan was adopted on the 16th December 2015. The Local Plan contains strategic planning...

Gosport Borough Council are preparing a new Local Plan that will identify sites for housing, employment and other land uses as well as protecting the Borough’s open space, nature conservation and heritage. It will be used in the determination of planning applications across the Borough and will...

Crawley Borough Council are preparing a new Local Plan for the borough which will guide development in Crawley over the plan period from 2024 – 2040. The plan contains planning policies that will be used to determine planning applications, and the Council hope that it addresses issues relating to...

On the day of local elections across England, we thought we'd provide a little update on how politics influences what we do...

Politics and planning in England are intricately linked, with government policies and decisions having a significant impact on the planning system. The National Planning...

The London Borough of Bexley formally adopted the Bexley Local Plan on the 26^th April 2023. The Plan will be used in the determination of planning applications over the period to 2038 and it replaces the Bexley Core Strategy and the remaining extant policies from the Bexley Unitary Development Plan...

The government have today launched a consultation on to seek views on proposals to increase planning fees and to improve the performance of local planning authorities. In brief the proposals comprise: