Secretary of state Angela Rayner has given the green light to demolish M&S’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street, ending a bitter three-year planning row.

The construction industry has widely welcomed the new Labour government’s housing and planning reforms announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July.

A London council recently ordered the demolition of two newly built blocks of flats for breaching planning conditions. Rory Stracey and Robyn Engstrom review the implications of this decision.

Strict controls aimed at protecting wetlands is holding up the construction of an estimated 40,000 homes across 35 local authorities in England, housing secretary Michael Gove has been warned.

Plagiarism of planning documents could be more common than it appears, says Robert Oates

Proposed government legislation to simplify the planning process should work in harmony with the looming building safety changes, says the CIOB.