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Going Up! More details of upward residential extensions...
Taking effect from the 31st August 2020, the Government has introduced new permitted development rights that allow existing residential...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 28, 20203 min read


UK Central Masterplan Unveiled
A masterplan prepared by Arden Cross, in partnership with Solihull Council, Urban Growth Company, West Midlands Combined Authority and...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 22, 20201 min read


Progress on Birmingham’s important new policy document
Birmingham City Council have submitted their Development Management in Birmingham Document (DMB) and supporting documents for...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 22, 20201 min read


New rules from September for demolition, commercial and retail units
On 21st July 2020, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that new laws laid in Parliament, due to come into effect from September,...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 22, 20201 min read


Reminder! Extension of time limits on existing permissions
Regular visitors to our website will recall that we alerted you that the Government was proposing an automatic extension to existing...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 17, 20201 min read


5 new dwellings allowed on Knowle farm
Tyler-Parkes is delighted to have secured Prior Notification Approval under the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 14, 20201 min read


Promote land for development in the Black Country now!
The review of the Black Country Core Strategy has been delayed. According to the revised timetable, the Draft version of the renamed...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 14, 20201 min read


Another Permission for the NHS
We are delighted to have obtained a further planning permission for the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for the use of a...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 9, 20202 min read


The musings of a ‘lockdown’ planner…
As many of us have sat at home in our home offices, perched at the kitchen or dining room table, hovering in our child’s bedroom - or as...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 2, 20204 min read


NEW PD Rights for 2-storey Upward Extensions on Apartments
A new permitted development (PD) right will allow two-storey upward extensions on purpose-built detached blocks of apartments from 1st...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 2, 20202 min read


‘Build, Build, Build’ says Boris
Boris Johnson has announced the ‘most radical’ reforms of the planning system since the end of the Second World War, pledging to ‘build a...
TP Editorial Team
Jul 2, 20203 min read


Could Your Land be Part of a 50 Hectare Country Park?
Worcester City, Malvern Hills District and Wychavon District Councils are currently making a joint ‘call for sites’ which might be...
TP Editorial Team
Jun 23, 20201 min read


My Predictions for Planning in the Post COVID-19 World
Clearly COVID-19 is having an unprecedented and far reaching effect on everyone’s lives – their health (both mental and physical), home,...
TP Editorial Team
May 29, 20206 min read


First Phase in HTM Redevelopment Project Approved
This is the second planning permission we have recently achieved for this highway management company; the first was the expansion of...
TP Editorial Team
May 14, 20201 min read
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