Housing Minister Grant Shapps today set out further steps for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2021
Rather than a top-down prescriptive approach, the plans outlined by Mr Shapps aim to give councils and developers much more flexibility to decide how to meet the ambitious eco-standards. As…
Proposals for a fairer planning fees system have been set-out for consultation.
At the moment local council taxpayers have been left subsidising the costs of dealing with planning applications. Councils have been unable to recover the true costs of applications because of…