Town planning in London, planning proposals and applications, and planning decisions

Some news on London planning:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/21/sadiq-khan-on-collision-course-with-government-over-environment

The effects of the changes proposed by the inspectors are likely to be minor in practice. For instance, there are no current plans to frack in London, and none are likely to be brought forward. Fracking has effectively stalled across the UK.

Well, yes, it's pretty hard to imagine fracking in London. Just think of the house prices ...

Allowing for building on the green belt in “very special circumstances” would be open to challenge and require explanations of what made circumstances so special that the presumption against building should be breached.

This I doubt. If you make things like this unclear, they can be exploited.

On Heathrow, the London Plan will effectively be subordinate to the decisions of the courts, where attempts to stop the airport expansion by legal means are already well under way. Last week, a new legal front opened up in the ongoing battle, when WWF was granted permission to make arguments against expansion based on the rights of children.

Khan’s objections to Heathrow expansion are nuanced, moreover, by his backing for increased capacity at Gatwick.

Yes, and building the Silvertown Tunnel and not the Rotherhithe-Isle of Dogs bridge.