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

Rushcliffe Borough Council has taken a significant step forward in its plans for a major housing and employment development on land east of Gamston and north of Tollerton.

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.