Housing planning news

Headline news this month is the latest housing starts and completions data, and the implications for the Government’s house building targets.

We also report on two High Court judgments regarding Secretary of State decisions: one judgment explored the materiality of one recent Secretary of State decision to another, and the other related to the Communities Secretary not taking a proposed condition into account when making his decision.

Read more on this and other new law and policy initiatives in Lichfields’ latest Housing Planning News.

In addition, Parliament returns today; we anticipate planning policy-related announcements to emerge in the next ten days, before Parliament rises again for party conference season.

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