All NPPF articles
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Features
‘Frankly, what’s the alternative?’ Turley’s Stephen Bell applauds the government’s planning vision
The chief executive of one of the UK’s largest planning consultants speaks to Tom Lowe about the implications of Labour’s final revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework and what needs to be done to achieve 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament
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Features
Real change or false hope: can Labour’s planning reforms deliver 1.5 million homes?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government’s ambitious housebuilding target?
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Opinion
The new NPPF will help at the margins but does little to reform our planning system
The latest changes to the National Planning Policy Framework offer some welcome tweaks, but the system remains as complex and inconsistent as ever
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News
Built environment broadly welcomes government’s NPPF changes
Focus on design quality praised but concerns remain around capacity of industry to complete schemes
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News
NPPF: Government drops 50% affordable housing requirement for grey belt sites
Labour yields to key housebuilder ask as it launches NPPF with 370,000-home mandatory housing target
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Opinion
Planning more clearly is the way to delegate decision-making
Nicholas Boys Smith explores how collaboration, clarity, and existing legislation could help ensure the planning system works for all
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Opinion
Can design codes help to create 1.5 million high-quality homes?
Design codes offer a pathway to sustainable housing development in line with new planning goals, writes Matilda Agace
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News
Policy Exchange report warns Labour against ditching beauty agenda in ‘dash for units’
Thinktank calls on Labour to rediscover early socialists’ commitment to beauty
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News
Government plans to cap landowner profits on green belt schemes
New legislation will change compulsory purchase rules
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Features
Is this the end of the road for ‘beauty’? Labour’s National Planning Policy Framework revisions explained
Keir Starmer’s government has put planning reform at the heart of its ambition to get Britain building, to the delight of many developers. Daniel Gayne looks at the proposals announced last month and assesses their chances of success
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News
RIBA calls for ‘decrepit’ planning system to put more emphasis on design quality as Labour sets out changes
Industry welcomes reforms to NPPF announced by Angela Rayner
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News
Rayner sets new 370,000 annual homes target alongside plan for NPPF changes
Figure is result of new method for calculating housing need, housing secretary tells MPs
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Opinion
The revised NPPF may not be as bad as feared, but don’t thank Gove
The new national planning policy document will still lead to fewer homes being built, even if some of the most egregious proposals around density and green belt have been watered down, says Joey Gardiner