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Performance update – May 2021 With some social restrictions being eased across the UK this week, our focus remains ensuring casework events can be planned ahead with certainty and to keep casework moving whilst protecting the health of staff and customers. From: 21 May 2021 The latest official statistics detail our performance from May 2020 to April 2021 for cases in England. In summary: we made 16,980 appeal decisions in the last 12 months, an average of just over 1,400 per month at the end of April 2021, we had 11,184 open cases. This is an increase of 470 (4%), from the previous mont...

Malta’s planning mayhem: What can be done? After George Vella’s social media foray on the uglification of Żejtun, JAMES DEBONO catches up with different stakeholders to ask them what can be done to save the day amid Malta’s planning mayhem 14 May 2021, 7:26am by James Debono “Anyone who suggests quick-fix solutions to resolve the crisis in the industry, particularly in relation to planning and building regulation, has not yet fully grasped the gravity of the situation” Faced with an apartment block proposed in his own neighbourhood, President George Vella called for a review of pl...

North and West area plans go on show in Ramsey today Thu, 13 May 2021 Plans for future development in the North and West of the Island will go on show in Ramsey today. A new draft area plan was announced last month with people being invited to submit feedback. When approved by Tynwald, the Area Plan for the North and West will replace a number of extant Local Plans and will help guide planning application decisions.  The Plan will be in operation for a number of years, so it is important that as many views as possible are captured during this early stage of the plan-making process. 

But they do question the effectiveness of Harrogate's hard-won Local Plan. Will this field in Bishop Monkton be turned into housing? (Picture Gerard Binks) Residents in the group say various different plans to build what could be a total of 300 new homes in their small but historic village, which currently has a population of just 800 people, amounts to “mass development” with inadequate recognition of the impact on local life and infrastructure. The Local Plan may finally be in place after years of effort by Harrogate Borough Council but, in the view of Bishop Monkton Action Group, the e...

Insight 4 May 2021, 12:19 Nearly 20 years on from Peter Kay’s tour, bungalows remain a highly popular housing choice among older people yet the number being built each year has plummeted from nearly 30,000 in the late 1980s to below 2,000 in 2021, which is less than 1% of all new homes built in the UK last year.   This, perversely, is at the same time as when the UK is experiencing greater life expectancy and an increasingly ageing and growing elderly population; when demand for bungalows is increasing further as a result of the impact of lockdown on older people’s lifestyles and well-be...