London Plan Consultation
May 19, 2025
Mayor of London announces the consultation on the next iteration of the London Plan
The London Plan is a strategic planning document, which provides development policies for the entire Greater London area, which each London council uses to guide their own Local Plans and to determine planning applications. The current plan was adopted in 2021, and City Hall...
May 2025 Highlights
May 28, 2025
May has been a whirlwind for planning news; with updates on planning reform, amendments to permitted development rights, consultation on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, and some landmark cases in London and across the country. We will give a quick overview of the plann...
Speeding Up Build Out
May 26, 2025
Although a planning reform paper, Speeding Up Build Out focuses on developers and the build out time from planning approval. The paper proposes additional powers for LPAs to set developers time frames to deliver Labour's targeted 1.5million homes.The paper proposes including...
April 2025 highlights
April 28, 2025
Planning news:More large infrastructure consents this month, with the Secretary of State for Transport granting consent for the Luton Airport expansion after several delays. Amendments have been proposed to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to remove statutory con...
Upcoming Planning Portal fee changes
March 21, 2025
Planning application fees are due to change on 1st April 2025.
Signposted earlier in the year, the planning fee increases will be introduced at the start of next month.From 1st April 2025 all planning fees will increase, with some applications going up by as much as 100% with others rising in line with inflation. These rates will be fix...
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
March 21, 2025
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill had its first reading in the House of Commons 11th March 2025.
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill, first mentioned in the King’s Speech in July 2024, has landed in the House of Commons and contains a lot of proposed changes for the planning system. The Bill is another piece of the planning reform puzzle aiming to streamline the plan...
March 2025 highlights
March 3, 2025
Planning news:The Planning and Infrastructure Bill has had its second reading in the House of Commons. Read more about the proposed changes the bill will bring in our earlier blog post.New Planning Portal fees are introduced, find out how this will change the cost of plannin...
February 2025 highlights
February 3, 2025
Thankfully February was a quieter month for policy updates, with more impacts of the grey belt reaching decision making and more updates for planning reforms due in March we have been able to take stock and plan towards new projects.Planning updates:We were provided with fur...
Appeal win in LB Richmond upon Thames
January 28, 2025
We are pleased to have won an appeal against refusal for extensions and a new storey for a bungalow. LB Richmond had refused the householder application for side, front and rear extensions and a new storey at first floor to a bungalow citing that the proposal created a ...
January 2025
January 15, 2025
A very belated happy new year from the team at WEA Planning!We’ve had a busy month in the office, with successful decision notices coming through, including:· Householder Appeal approval in LB Richmond for extensions, which also ga...
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