Latest News in East Midlands

Go-ahead for Nottingham Odeon plans

Plans for an office redevelopment of Nottingham city centre's old Odeon cinema on Angel Row have gained consent.

URC pushes ahead with £2bn Derby plans

URC Derby Cityscape is to forge ahead with plans for a £2bn regeneration of Derby city centre despite the economic downturn.

Leicester considers planning team cuts

Up to 20 planning and building control staff at Leicester City Council are under review due to a fall in applications, it emerged this week.

Planning Appeal Casebook

DC Casebook: Food and drink uses - Canopy allowed on fallback position

An enforcement notice directed against a canopy over an outdoor drinking area at a bar in Leicester has been quashed, an inspector giving significant weight to the argument that the structure would benefit from deemed consent with the addition of an advertisement.

In Depth

Planning Student Quiz 2009

Planning Student Quiz 2009

Pit your wits against other teams in Planning Magazine's Student Quiz '09!

Resolving spatial strategy conflicts

Local authority planners' perception of a conflict in the parallel processes for setting development priorities is misplaced, Janice Morphet argues.

Northern Ireland: planning for the future

A more streamlined planning system aims to cut bureaucracy and involve politicians and the community in the process, explains Brian Sore.

Planning emissions cuts

Planners will play a key role in focusing political and technical attention on the scope for using low-energy technologies to significantly cut greenhouse gases, says Domenic Donatantonio.

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Anthony Fyson

Anthony
Fyson

Fyson on ... the dangers of measuring heritage site protection

The dangers of measuring heritage site protection in economic not global enrichment terms.

Bryan Johnston

Bryan
Johnston

Applications cut only scratches surface of planners' problems

It would make Scrooge's day. Some chief executives and top councillors have taken the recent...