Plans to expand a Kent airport have been backed by councillors despite fears of excessive noise and damage to the environment.  Shepway District Council approved Lydd Airport's plans to build a new terminal and exten......

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Campaigners won a landmark victory at the Supreme Court to save a seafront open space from developers.  A six-year battle by five local residents ended with the local council being ordered by the highest court in the land to register the common as a town or village green. The unanimous decision over the area at Redcar by five Justices is expected to.....

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Plans to encourage householders to make their homes much warmer and cheaper to run have been announced by ministers.  Consumers will be offered long-term loans to install insulation, solar panels or other green technology, which they can repay through

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Plans to build a Welsh dragon statue which would dwarf the Angel of the North have been unveiled.  Waking the Dragon would stand at 210ft, incorporate a culture complex and raise money for a cancer charity, it was reveale.....

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Conservative proposals to overhaul England’s planning system have been met with scepticism from housing groups, which claim the reforms could put affordable home development at risk.

Opposition leader David Cameron launched

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A Government decision to approve a third runway at Heathrow Airport was flawed by "conspicuously unfair" public consultations, London's High Court has been told.

A coalition of local councils, environmental groups and residents are asking a judge to quash the decision and, if necessary, for further consultations to take place.

The then transport secretary Geoff Hoon approved the

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THE BEATLES' favourite recording studio ABBEY ROAD has been awarded historic status by the British government to stop any radical development on the site.

The U.K.'s Culture Minister Margaret Hodge declared the iconic venue in north-west London a Grade II listed building on Tuesday (23Feb10), on the advice of national preservation body English Heritage.

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David Cameron has unveiled plans to reform England's 'broken' planning system and create new homes and jobs in the process.

The Conservative leader claimed the party's 'Open Source Planning' green paper contained policies which would see 'one of the biggest shifts in power for decades'.

The Tory green paper outlines proposals to use 'open source democracy' and neighbourhood

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The housing market continued to show signs of recovering during December with prices rising by 0.8%, Government figures showed today.

The increase pushed annual house price growth further into positive territory, with prices 2.9% higher than they had been a year earlier,

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A £530 MILLION plan to transform rail travel in the north of England through better stations and quicker, more frequent services has been published by Network Rail.

NR said its Northern Hub study ‘identifies what needs to be done to respond to the significant growth seen in the region

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