Planning Resource has compiled a summary of recent media coverage of the recent news on councils potentially facing legal action if they fail to release plots of land to self-builders, as announced by England’s Planning Minister Nick Boles.
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- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 21/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’ 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents 21/11/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 21/11/2025
- Housebuilding around train stations will be given default ‘yes’, including in Green Belt, as: ‘Builders Speechless’ 21/11/2025
- RTPI’s State of the Profession 2025 reports across UK: One in five planners expected to leave the profession within three years, with no clear plan to replace them 21/11/2025
- TCPA Blog: Review of Homes England’s Healthy Homes Standard: Our homes are not islands 21/11/2025
- Public Practice: Recruitment & Skills Report 2025 21/11/2025
- NCT’s National Churches Survey – giving every church a voice 21/11/2025
- New APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes launched 21/11/2025
- Heritage Alliance awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for Resilience Project 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WMF welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase Assembly Rooms 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 18/11/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 18/11/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 18/11/2025
- Need a MATE? Act soon & reserve your free online IHBC Accreditation guidance and update session soon (November closed; January still open) 18/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Parliamentary Signpost: Lords completes examination of Planning and Infrastructure Bill 18/11/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Building Design (Tanvir Hasan) on Losing ‘historic craftmanship’ 18/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (development) doorstep’: Ightham Mote’s new visitor & landscape works for the National Trust 18/11/2025
- Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025 18/11/2025
- St Paul’s Crowned Best Cultural Experience at Toast the City Awards 18/11/2025
- CIC announces approval of new British Standard on Sustainability Competence, with Call for Expertise 18/11/2025
- RICS: Optimism high for AI in construction but skills shortages and integration challenges adoption 18/11/2025
- British Woodworking Federation (BWF) leads coalition across construction to protect future of apprenticeships 18/11/2025