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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
Britain’s oldest national conservation body has said it is “dismayed” over the government’s “foolish” support for a planning silk’s devolution bill amendment that seeks to address the effects of a Supreme Court ruling that has left some former open space land “permanently” shielded from development, as MPs approved the measure in the House of Commons.
A council has agreed to grant permission for the permanent mooring of a 233-room floating hotel in the River Thames after officers advised that the project would provide “direct economic benefits”.
By: Samantha Eckford
A viscount has submitted outline plans for a 2,500-home garden village on agricultural land that is allocated for development in an early draft of an emerging local plan.
By: Samantha Eckford
One of the government’s seven shortlisted new towns sites, earmarked for up to 21,000 new homes, may be at risk after a Labour-led council fell under no overall control after last week’s local elections, with both the Conservative and Green groups indicating in their manifestos that they would seek to block the project.
By: Samantha Eckford
The government has updated its guidance on its new "simplified" written appeals process to clarify that appellants will need to respond to local authorities’ proposed draft planning conditions within seven days of receiving them.
By: Samantha Eckford
A city council’s assistant director of planning has said that her authority is likely to seek “a lot” of delegated powers to allow officers to push through their new-style local plan quicker in a bid to meet the impending 30-month deadline for such strategies to be completed.
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By: Samantha Eckford
London’s deputy mayor for planning has granted permission for a 1,485-home out-of-town leisure park redevelopment and overturned a council refusal of the project against officers' advice, after expressing strong support for the "optimisation of an accessible brownfield site" that is "in line with the local site allocation".
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.
