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Key recent planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for nearly 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag
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In this episode, we’ll be discussing: Two councils revealing that their planning services have been hit by cyber-attacks. The planning minister unveiling fresh details on the government’s new towns programme, including that it will consult on its preferred locations for the proposed settlements in the “coming weeks”. The same minister telling inspectors and councils that they should take a “pragmatic” approach to developers’ requests to modify planning consents to enable lower affordable housing contributions.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing Planning’s latest annual Planning Consultancy Market Report, which takes an in-depth and exclusive look at the planning consultancy market.We'll be examining:The firms with the biggest and fastest-growing planning consultancy teams.The companies with the highest planning fee income and fee rates.And consultants’ thoughts on the state of the job market and most sought-after skills. Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this episode, we’ll unsurprisingly be discussing the publication of a new and heavily rewritten draft version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). We’re going to devote almost the whole show to the new framework, which came out just before Christmas, including looking at the very different structure and approach in the draft document as well as proposed changes around densification of development, the presumption in favour of sustainable development, viability, green belt, strategic planning and local housing need.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this episode, we’ll be discussing: Some well-sourced intelligence on what we can expect from the new National Planning Policy Framework, which was published this week, and discussion of the forthcoming passing of the government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Act. A series of emerging local plans in different parts of the country that have run into trouble with government planning inspectors during their examination.A council refusing plans for 900 green belt homes despite a planning chief’s warning of a “very strong risk” of an appeal costs award.A warning from the chief planning inspector that appeal decision-makers are facing “false and fraudulent representations” generated by artificial intelligence.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing an exclusive, in-depth report by Planning on why the government’s drive to digitise planning is yet to make a meaningful impact on services.We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this episode, we’ll be discussing:All the planning news from last week’s Budget, including the promise of further funding to boost planning capacity.An important announcement from the housing minister on the future of the legal duty to cooperate for and other impending changes to the local plan system.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this edition, we’ll be discussing the housing secretary’s announcement of a series of further changes to the planning system, including: Changes to the ministerial application call-in process that would require English councils to tell the housing ministry when they intend to refuse planning applications for schemes of more than 150 homes.Impending changes to the National Planning Policy Framework that would mean planning applications for homes and other “suitable” development near “well-connected” train stations will receive a default “yes” from decision-makers, providing they “meet certain rules”.A consultation on stripping three statutory consultees of their role and other revisions to the way local authorities engage with statutory consultees.We’ll also be discussing why a council has apologised after accidentally releasing personal details of 625 respondents to its local plan consultation.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing:How the government’s decision to make national development management policies non-statutory will impact plan-making and development management.What the proposed relaxation of London’s affordable housing requirements would mean for practitioners – both inside and outside the capital.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this edition, we’ll be discussing: A significant announcement on local government reorganisation and what it could mean for planning.A city council taking legal action against three developers whom it says collectively owe it almost £1 million in unpaid section 106 contributions.The launch of a £10 million government tender for the creation of a new “planning tool” to enable “AI-augmented decision-making for planning applications”.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing an exclusive Planning report into England’s 30 biggest and busiest local planning authorities — who are these councils and what are the key findings into their staffing and activity levels?Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The Supreme Court overturning a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld the refusal on nutrient pollution grounds of a developer’s bid to discharge conditions relating to a 650-home scheme.The housing ministry and the mayor of London announcing an “emergency” package of measures aiming to boost housebuilding in the capital that includes a relaxation of affordable housing requirements.A report from the Parliamentary watchdog on the developer contribution system that warns ministers about a “drought of planners in local authorities”.Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this edition, we’ll be discussing: An important letter from housing minister Matthew Pennycook to the Planning Inspectorate in which he gives advice to inspectors examining local plans with a particular focus on green belt reviews.The government publishing a series of amendments to its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill. And the announcement of a deal between two government departments, two statutory consultees and a water company that seeks to enable the delivery of 21,000 new homes.Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be we’ll be taking a look at:How a court ruling confirms the difficulty for councils in using green belt openness as a way to resist development.And our exclusive research on the local authorities we predict will have weakened planning protections after the next housing delivery test results.We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector.
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This is the fifth edition of our new monthly series examining the key appeal and court decisions from the past four weeks.As before, we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles the long-running Casebook section of Planning. This month, we will be discussing: How inspectors are assessing industrial schemes and the importance of local need.An appeal case that shows how inspectors are balancing requirements for accessibility against local housing need. Growing numbers of appeals over proposals for battery storage schemes and the substantial weight that inspectors are placing on their benefits.The High Court upholding a ministerial consent for new homes in a national landscape dismissing a challenge that claimed it contravened a new legal duty.More information on all these cases can be found in the October 2025 edition of Casebook on Planning Resource. Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.
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In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The planning highlights from last week’s Labour Party Conference.A government inspector announcing that a joint local plan in a key growth area of the country has failed a legal duty.And three big planning decisions by the housing minister.
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In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at: The government responding to the initial findings of its New Towns Taskforce, which has called for 12 locations to be taken forward.And discussing our exclusive survey on the planning consultancies that allow the most working from home.
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The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals. In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The Labour government's first local plan intervention.Long-awaited new national planning guidance on the flood risk sequential test. And the first planning pronouncements by the new housing secretary.
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The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals. In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at the government’s planning policy and legislation programme over the next six months – what are the key announcements and measures that we can expect? Among other things, we’ll be talking about the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, national development management policies and changes to the plan-making system We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector.
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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The surprise resignation of Angela Rayner as housing secretary last week and the planning track record of her replacement.The planning news from the Reform UK Conference this weekend.And a judge confirming a planning inspector’s finding that green belt openness "cannot be compromised" by "not inappropriate" development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. This week, we’re going to take a closer look at the latest twist in the ongoing legal and planning battle between the government and an Essex council over the use of a hotel to house asylum seekers, which on Friday saw the Court of Appeal reverse a High Court injunction in an unusually scathing ruling. We'll also discuss: Reports that the government is considering a new planning bill;And the High Court quashing a council’s consent for a self-build home over a planning officer's “error of law”.In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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