Developers Countryside Properties and Catalyst Housing have been chosen by Slough Borough Council as the preferred bidders for a project to build 255 homes across two sites on the Britwell estate, as well as shops and parking. One hundred of the homes are intended to be affordable.

Developer Balfour Beatty has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a tram extension through Birmingham City Centre by Centro, the organisation responsible for bus, rail and Midland Metro Tram transport in the West Midlands. Work on the extension is scheduled to start early next year.

The amount of private sector money formally committed to some of the biggest regeneration projects in the UK has risen significantly in the past 18 months, according to research published today.

Consultancy Ekosgen has been appointed by countryside charity the Rural Development Trust to evaluate community-led regeneration scheme the Market Towns Initiative, which aims to build a network of community trusts which are able to deliver regeneration in the rural market towns of Biggar, Carluke, Lanark and Strathaven in Scotland.

East Cambridgeshire District Council has dropped charges for business and equine-related developments in its latest plans for a developer levy.

East Cambridgeshire District Council has dropped charges for business and equine-related developments in its latest plans for a developer levy.

Consultancy Ekosgen has been appointed by countryside charity the Rural Development Trust to evaluate community-led regeneration scheme the Market Towns Initiative, which aims to build a network of community trusts which are able to deliver regeneration in the rural market towns of Biggar, Carluke, Lanark and Strathaven in Scotland.

The amount of private sector money formally committed to some of the biggest regeneration projects in the UK has risen significantly in the past 18 months, according to research published today.

Developer Balfour Beatty has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a tram extension through Birmingham City Centre by Centro, the organisation responsible for bus, rail and Midland Metro Tram transport in the West Midlands.

Developers Countryside Properties and Catalyst Housing have been chosen by Slough Borough Council as the preferred bidders for a project to build 255 homes across two sites on the Britwell estate, as well as shops and parking.

Heritage watchdog Historic Scotland has refused an application from Perth and Kinross Council seeking its permission to demolish Perth City Hall.

A landowner has lost his Court of Appeal challenge against a local council’s decision not to allocate his land for housing development.

London mayor Boris Johnson has made the first appointments to his new administration, naming Richard Blakeway as deputy mayor for housing, land and property, and confirming that Sir Edward Lister will retain responsibility for planning.

Torridge District Council and North Devon Council have appointed Kate Little to a new position of joint head of planning.

A wind farm which the government says would have the highest generating capacity of any onshore wind farm in England and Wales has been given the go-ahead.

The government ‘messed up’ the opportunity of promoting city mayors, according to a think-tank, after nine out of 10 cities rejected the idea in referendums held last week.

Chelsea Football Club has submitted a bid to buy Battersea Power Station to build a 60,000-seat football stadium in the latest attempt to regenerate the derelict site.

Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced that the government has identified enough surplus public sector land to provide more than 102,000 homes.

The Labour Party has seized control of a series of key councils including Birmingham, Southampton, Plymouth and Cardiff in this week’s local elections.

New powers introduced this week to allow Welsh councils to ease planning rules for certain types of development will be more restrictive than the equivalent mechanism in England, it has emerged.

The government has resolved to “avoid answering in a great deal of detail” questions from councils on how to interpret the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the civil servant in charge of the reforms has said.

The government has modified an order preventing development on a West London site earmarked for a “supersewer” tunnel shaft in response to the threat of two legal challenges.

A group of amenity bodies, residents and local businesses in north London is bidding to take on neighbourhood planning powers for an area that includes one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects.

Details have emerged of a handful of local groups that have taken their first formal steps towards creating statutory neighbourhood plans by using new neighbourhood planning regulations to register their intent with councils.

Planning obstacles could hinder ambitious targets for bioenergy use, according to the government’s own analysis.