Demolition is now considered ‘development’ and will be a material consideration for all planning applications and no longer just a process of implementing development. A Court of Appeal ruling means all buildings will now require planning permission or prior approval for demolition. The days of simply sending in the bulldozer are over. Please click on the link below which will take you to our briefing note on the new demolition rules and what they will mean to you....

Independent planning consultancy DPP has strengthened its market-leading heritage planning team with two high level and strategic appointments...

PPS5: Planning for the historic environment, was published on 23rd March 2010, replacing PPG15 (Planning and the historic environment), 1994 and PPG16 (Archaeology and planning), 1990. The PPS is accompanied by....

Heritage buildings, monuments and landscapes will be seen as an asset rather than a barrier to development in England, is one of the key messages of the government's latest Planning Policy Statement - PPS5: Planning for the Historic Environment launched yesterday, (Tuesday 23 March 2010)...

Independent planning consultancy DPP has secured planning permission on appeal for a replacement Tesco store at Wolverton, Milton Keynes, following more than two years of negotiations with Milton Keynes Council...

The draft new Planning Policy Statement (PPS) on planning for the historic environment was published on 24th July with the stated aim of 'keeping up the momentum' of heritage protection reform. However...