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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 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.
By: Samantha Eckford
A planning inspector has overturned a council’s refusal against the advice of its officers of a volume housebuilder’s plan for 200 homes on green belt land on the edge of a "historic town" after finding that the project did not impact on the settlement's historic character and therefore should be considered grey belt.
By: Samantha Eckford
A city council has delayed a consultation on the final version of its draft local plan - which had proposed meeting just over half of its local housing need - and is seeking an extension from the government to allow it to submit its strategy after the 31 December deadline.
By: Samantha Eckford
The government has published new guidance on delivering affordable housing through section 106 affordable housing developer contributions, which emphasises the importance of parties’ “open, transparent communication and collaboration” throughout the planning process.
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By: Samantha Eckford
Members of a city council’s planning committee have refused permission for a 2,000-home scheme on green belt land against the advice of the authority’s planning officers on the grounds that it would be "inappropriate" development.
By: Samantha Eckford
Nine in ten local authority planning departments are operating at a staffing level below full capacity, ten percentage points more than last year, with a total national shortfall of 2,660 planners, a new report by a housebuilding industry body has found.
