Ella Jessel

The leader of a Surrey council has accused ministers of failing to follow their own policies in a deepening row over the government’s decision to block the authority from withdrawing its local plan.

Councils across the country have been awarded a total of £60m from the second tranche of the government’s brownfield fund, paving the way for 6,000 homes to be built.

A Surrey council that the housing minister blocked from withdrawing its emerging local plan has urged the government to withdraw the direction and said it is considering legal action, in a deepening row.

A plan to build hundreds of new homes in the East Sussex countryside has been rejected at appeal after an inspector cited harm to the site’s ancient woodland as a “clear reason” for refusal.

A plan to build hundreds of new homes in the East Sussex countryside has been rejected at appeal despite the local authority's housing land supply shortfall, after an inspector cited harm to the site’s ancient woodland as a “clear reason” for refusal.

A city council in Oxfordshire has unveiled a new draft local plan that it proposes submitting to the government for examination, which aims to meet just 36 per cent of the identified housing needs of the area.

A group of Sheffield councillors suspended by the Labour Party for rebelling in a vote over the city’s draft local plan have quit the party and set up as independents.

Amin Taha is selling the his award-winning Clerkenwell Close office and home to finance a potential new carbon-negative, stone-built development on another site

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