Meanwhile, LABCs stand to benefit from a single portal for all development applications across planning and building control. The single portal means they will have the same high degree of integration ...

Applications made in March as a whole were at the highest level for a single month since April 2021, with 31 March showing the highest ever level of activity. Overall, March saw more than 64,000 ...

Discussions with planning authorities about design matters are often a source of irritation for architects. Nevertheless the planning system, although over-complicated and in many ways seriously ...

Geoff Keal, CEO at TerraQuest, operator of Planning Portal, said: “Undoubtedly this record increase has been driven in part by significant increases in certain application fees. Yet any planning ...