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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 prime minister has indicated that the government will challenge a council’s decision to try to withdraw a green belt site from the new towns programme shortlist, saying that such decisions will be made in the “national interest alone”, while condemning “the naysayers and the blockers” that oppose new development.
By: Samantha Eckford
A housing department minister has told the House of Lords that planning officers should be able to do their job without being intimidated and that any harassment of them “needs to stop”.
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By: Samantha Eckford
An inspector has requested that a council delete a 160-home green belt allocation from its emerging local plan despite the site’s proximity to a train station, and asked it to make a series of modifications to sites identified by the government as suitable for a new town.
By: Samantha Eckford
News that a planning inspector’s recommendation to refuse permission for works to a medical cannabis farm at an appeal brought forward by a third party has been accepted leads today's roundup of planning news in other media.
By: Samantha Eckford
An inspector has permitted a volume housebuilder’s 325-home scheme on an unallocated site made up of high-quality agricultural land after concluding that the scheme’s “wide ranging” benefits, including addressing a housing land shortfall, outweighed the limited harm to three nearby heritage assets.
By: Samantha Eckford
The planning minister has allowed four recovered appeals for mixed-use redevelopment of a former brewery site that would include a data centre and residential, office and retail space, agreeing with an inspector’s conclusion that the benefits of the scheme would outweigh the less than substantial harm to nearby heritage assets.
By: Samantha Eckford
The government’s impact assessment of its move, being implemented this week, to increase the size of the sites that benefit from exemption from biodiversity net gain (BNG) on grounds of being “small sites” was “not fit for purpose”, according to its own advisers.
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By: Samantha Eckford
Inspectors have told a local planning authority that it must properly assess six non-green belt sites that were put forward during a consultation last year but never formally appraised in order to justify the proposed release of 327 hectares of green belt land in its draft local plan.
By: Samantha Eckford
Applicants for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) will no longer need to complete the mandatory pre-application consultation on their schemes, after changes to the process made by the Planning and Infrastructure Act came into effect.
By: Samantha Eckford
A local authority has said it will oppose the new draft London Plan over concerns about its proposal to build over 5,000 new homes on a stretch of green belt land in the area.
