What a week! We’ve seen an astonishing byelection result (which we’ve written about here), some potentially very serious leadership failures in the DUP in Northern Ireland, and today England faces…

It seems remarkably rare for us to get a genuine surprise in politics these days but yesterday’s byelection to deliver a new parliamentary representative for the people of Amersham and…

All local planning authorities in England are required by law to have a local plan to set local planning policies in their area. These documents are applied when deciding on…

It is five years since the 2016 Referendum Five years should be long enough to learn some of the lessons of what happened on 23 June, 2016 – even if…

After recent unfortunate (if not entirely unexpected) performances in recent elections, the Labour leader Keir Starmer not only conducted a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet, but also commissioned a policy…

We have written multiple times about the Government’s major immigration reform consultation, firstly in a previous Week in Parliament where we did a little dissection of it raising significant concerns…

Articles, comment and advice on consultation for the planning and development sector have focused extensively on the methodologies used (specifically striking a balance between online and offline) and the potential…

On Thursday the House of Commons’ Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee issued a first report on The future of the Planning System in England.  This follows the 2020 Planning…

How much do you think about the data the NHS holds on you? It’s some of the most personal data that any individual has- details about our illnesses, our health…