Samantha Eckford is a Senior Reporter for Planning Resource, with a focus on local planning issues in the United Kingdom. Her work has also been featured in The ENDS Report. Samantha covers a wide range of topics, including housing development, local plan examinations, council performance, and government regulations.
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Samantha's coverage mainly focuses on government, local councils, planning, housing, and infrastructure in the United Kingdom. She often reports on announcements and legal policy regulations related to real estate industry and business. If you're looking to pitch her a story or commentary, it should be centered around UK-specific government policies and their impact on local councils or the real estate sector.
Given Samantha’s geographic focus on the UK, pitches should provide insights into developments within this region specifically. Additionally, she may have an interest in stories that shed light on challenges faced by local councils with regards to planning issues or housing shortages.
She also covers topics related to infrastructure projects and land use policies at a local level which could include effective strategies for community engagement or successful case studies of development projects in the UK.
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By: Samantha Eckford
The government has appointed a newly created publicly owned body to produce the “first ever strategic spatial plan for energy”, which will set out how best to spread such projects across the country and aims to “streamline planning and consenting processes for new energy generation and storage”.
By: Samantha Eckford
A county council has accumulated almost £290 million in unspent section 106 planning gain funding, with upper tier authorities comprising over half of the 20 authorities with the biggest sums in their reserves, according to research by housebuilders.
By: Samantha Eckford
Seven local planning authorities are set to receive a share of £45 million of newly-announced funding in a bid to unblock the delivery of stalled housing sites in areas affected by government agency Natural England’s 'nutrient neutrality' advice.
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