Included in the wide range of provisions in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 are some important changes to the process and procedures for Development Consent Orders and Compulsory Purchase Orders. In this Insight we examine these changes and their implications for landowners and local authorities. 

The Government’s energy infrastructure reform programme continues to gather pace following publication of multiple important documents this autumn. In this Insight we discuss the recent progress and new announcements setting out further actions and steps identified to deliver these reforms.

The chancellor’s 'mini-budget' on 23 September introduced some significant planning reforms.  In a separate blog we discussed the new Investment Zones announced that will benefit from tax reliefs and liberalised planning laws. In this blog we discuss the new government’s proposals to reform the planning regime for major infrastructure projects.

An early Christmas present in the form of the Government’s long awaited Energy White Paper “Powering our Net Zero Future” was finally gifted to us last week. We have digested the White Paper with our festive hats on and set out some key points for your thought.

Episode 4 of the podcast Planning Life Insights of Bryan looks at “Planning for the future”, a Government consultation paper which moots a complete overhaul of the planning regime in favour of US-style zoning and a total revamp of CIL and S106. Could this help developers deliver major schemes in the 21st Century?

The long awaited Planning White Paper was finally published on 6 August 2020 for consultation which, as promised, proposes radical changes to the current planning system that are not short of ambition.