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Samantha's coverage mainly focuses on government, local councils, planning, housing, and infrastructure in the United Kingdom. She often reports on announcements and legal policy regulations related to real estate industry and business. If you're looking to pitch her a story or commentary, it should be centered around UK-specific government policies and their impact on local councils or the real estate sector.
Given Samantha’s geographic focus on the UK, pitches should provide insights into developments within this region specifically. Additionally, she may have an interest in stories that shed light on challenges faced by local councils with regards to planning issues or housing shortages.
She also covers topics related to infrastructure projects and land use policies at a local level which could include effective strategies for community engagement or successful case studies of development projects in the UK.
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By: Samantha Eckford
An inspector has ruled that an Oxfordshire council’s draft local plan can be examined under the 2023 version of the National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF) - which has now twice been superseded - after finding that its proposed housing requirement was justified in including unmet need from a neighbouring city authority.
By: Samantha Eckford
A county council that earlier this year launched a legal challenge against the government’s plans for local government reorganisation has said today’s decision to withdraw plans for change in its area will save local taxpayers “millions”.
By: Samantha Eckford
A Conservative-led authority that earlier this year scrapped its emerging local plan so it could redirect its plan-working to focus on the new local government reorganisation (LGR) geography has slammed Whitehall’s approach to the issue as “one costly, chaotic car crash” and pledged to push for compensation for the resources spent on the programme.
By: Samantha Eckford
The government has dramatically announced a review and pause of its advanced plans for local government reorganisation. We highlight commentators' views on what this is likely to mean for planning and for local authorities.
By: Samantha Eckford
A council that has spent two years preparing its development strategy has voted to instead produce it under the new plan-making system, after delays due to water supply issues meant it will miss the government’s December submission deadline and pushing back the document’s subsequent adoption by two years.
By: Samantha Eckford
The housing minister has told a Reform UK-led authority that has just voted to scrap its regulation 19 local plan draft that cost £1 million so far to prepare that it must consult on and submit the strategy before the end of the year, in his tenth such intervention.
By: Samantha Eckford
A planning application for the final phase of development on an iconic central London brownfield site, proposing nearly 300,000 square metres of residential, commercial and leisure floorspace, have been submitted.
By: Samantha Eckford
A Liberal Democrat MP who this month announced her intention to run to become the party’s candidate in the 2028 mayoral election has told the party’s annual conference that a “new model” is needed for the delivery of social and affordable housing.
By: Samantha Eckford
A Liberal Democrat peer has criticised grey belt as being a “weird” and “economically stupid” policy, while admitting that some green belt land should be released for development, and said that the mayor of London’s “bizarre” viability policies were setting affordable housing requirements too high.
By: Samantha Eckford
An inspector has allowed a land promoter’s appeal over plans for a 600-home scheme in the countryside after finding that the proposal met a new test in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) that applies the “presumption in favour of sustainable development” outside settlements if there is an unmet housing need.
