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Data centre refusal highlights challenges
United Kingdom - November 1 2023 The Ministerial decision on a Recovered appeal for a ‘hyperscale’ data centre in West London shows the challenges of meeting data needs in a policy…
Unpacking Community Contributions
United Kingdom - August 31 2023 When promoting Urban Development and infrastructure projects, community involvement is crucial for shaping the spaces we live in. Section 106…
Money does grow on trees: registering biodiversity net gain for sale
United Kingdom - August 10 2023 Natural England will shortly launch the biodiversity net gain (BNG) unit Register ahead of the mandatory BNG requirements coming into force in…
Watch This Place
United Kingdom - July 31 2023 Cities and towns face challenges that are not new, but continue to be shaped by technology, with the twin catalysts of public health and economic…
BNG - Risk to Opportunity
United Kingdom - July 27 2023 From November 2023, most English planning permissions must secure a 10% biodiversity net gain (“BNG“) against the pre-development habitat value…
How will AI change the planning system?
United Kingdom - April 12 2023 Despite recent calls for a pause on AI development, AI is beginning to transform the way we work across many industries; so how might it help our…
Infrastructure Levy - the latest attempt to capture land value
United Kingdom - March 24 2023 It’s worth putting this into context. A workable form of development land tax has been sought by successive governments for decades. In more recent…
Net Gain - Regime Coming Into Focus
USA - February 22 2023 The Government’s summary and response to the Biodiversity Net Gain regulations and implementation consultation (which ran from January to March 2022)…
It’s official - it’s not the role of the planning system to police private rights - or is it?
United Kingdom - February 2 2023 As I read through the Supreme Court Judgement of Fearn and others v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery I became increasingly exasperated that the…
Which CIL liability notice to challenge, and when
United Kingdom - January 18 2023 The Court of Appeal has provided some helpful CIL clarity (and upheld a hefty CIL charge of over £900k) in the case of R (Braithwaite) v East Suffolk…
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