The government has unveiled plans to unlock thousands of new homes in Norfolk through a new approach that ties housebuilding directly to large-scale nature restoration, in what is being billed as the first test of a significant shift in how planning and environmental protection work together.

The Building Safety Act has raised standards for the right reasons, but to deliver the regime now needs greater predictability

Local planning departments are struggling with staff shortages that could hold back efforts to increase housebuilding across England and Wales, according to new research by the Home Builders Federation (HBF).

The world’s rivers, ponds and wetlands are disappearing beneath concrete, and a team of international scientists says that the professionals designing our cities need to step up to stop it.