The Guardian | UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying by Zach Boren

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition.

Documents obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show that proposed changes to the national planning policy framework (NPPF) were discussed by ministers and officials in response to concerns of the country’s leading chicken producers, who have been lobbying on the issue for at least two years.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/uk-looks-to-relax-planning-rules-for-factory-farms-after-industry-lobbying

#pollution #UK #planningrules #factoryfarms

Councils call for long-term funding to build 200,000 social homes as Angela Rayner to overhaul planning rules | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-housing-councils-angela-rayner-b2587603.html

#Councils
#SocialHousing
#Housing
#CouncilHousing
#Funding
#Rayner
#PlanningRules
#LocalGov
#Labour
#LGA
#LocalGovernmentAssociation
#HousingInfrastructureFund
#AffordableHousing
#ConsultancyFees
#BuildABetterFutureReport

For those interested in such things, code and extracted data for the 2024 Timetable Planning Rules (https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-and-commercial/information-for-operators/operational-rules) data, including useable platform length in metres, is here (https://github.com/anisotropi4/TPR/releases/download/2024V4-1.0/TPR-and-platform-2024V4.zip)

Timetable Planning Rules are used to regulate the standard timings between stations and junctions together with other matters enabling trains to be scheduled into the working timetable for the various parts of the main rail network.

#Rail #TimeTable #PlanningRules #DataExtraction
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For major #developments #PlanningUK is broken.

Here is a high-profile example from central #London but similar examples are floundering in many large towns & cities.

That's not to say the proposed designs are always the best, because the lack of partnership with #LocalCommunities condemns #architects and #planners to play pass-the-parcel with #PlanningGuidance treated as #PlanningRules.

https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2023/12/03/new-entrance-to-london-bridge-station-scrapped-as-development-blocked/