Are allotments vital community infrastructure or just another drag on development viability? Tim Foreman of LRG argues evidence points towards the former. 

The government has launched a consultation on a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), marking the most significant overhaul of planning rules in over a decade.

Places for People (PfP) has secured land – subject to planning approval – in South Gloucestershire to deliver more than 2,000 new homes as part of a major mixed-use development aimed at easing the region’s acute housing pressures.

With new rules meaning development sites smaller than 0.2 hectares no longer need to contribute to nature, a fresh analysis has revealed the scale of what this means.