Ten of the biggest stories from the past week, including news that communities secretary James Brokenshire has made a last-minute intervention to stop a Hertfordshire council adopting its local plan.

Brokenshire made the intervention after a local Tory MP and countryside campaigners raised concerns about the document, including proposals to release green belt land. More.

Central and local government should claim a "significant proportion" of land value increases arising from planning decisions and landowners' existing right to "hope value" should be scrapped, a report by a cross-party committee of MPs has recommended. More.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced its preferred "corridor" for the route of the proposed Oxford to Cambridge expressway. More.

Councils should be required to release green belt land "that is not worthy of the name" but losses should be compensated for by a "green land guarantee", a report by a new free market think-tank has recommended. More.

Residents of the Thornton Estate in Hull have rejected a proposed neighbourhood plan for their area, in what is believed to be only the second such referendum to result in a 'no' outcome. More.

A High Court judge has come down on the side of a council and a planning inspector in a row over a couple's choice of replacement tiles for a grade II* listed mansion. More.

Plans have been approved for up to 350 homes on a former school site in Bristol despite objections from statutory consultee Sport England over the loss of a playing field. More.

Public consultation on a joint strategic planning document for the Exeter sub-region has been postponed after one of the constituent districts voiced concerns about its content.More.

Plans have been submitted for a 3,500-home development on a former World War II airfield in Cambridgeshire. More.

Source: Planning Resource