Planning Law (With Chickens)

Victoria and Nikita (with a couple of special Town Legal guests) are back celebrating the firm’s tenth anniversary and the large number of planning related announcements/news stories in recent months, including the new NPPF, draft London Plan, national scheme of delegation, Natural England’s first draft Environmental Delivery Plan, the Nicholas King New Homes appeal decision and Greystoke CB Ltd High Court case. Visit our Website: townlegal.com

Victoria and Nikita are back with an update on planning news stories, an overview of the Wildfish case and reflections from the Town team on the recent UKREiiF conference in Leeds. Visit our Website: townlegal.com

In this first episode of 2026, we have Town Legal’s new Manchester partners on the pod. Get to know Lisa Tye, Kathryn Jump and David Mathias in this special episode; their career highlights, their favourite planning cases and, of course, whether they support City or United. Visit our Website: townlegal.com

Victoria and Nikita run through their planning themed “12 Days of Christmas” for 2025 with some key highlights from the year – plenty of cases, lots of consultations and, of course, the recently published draft NPPF. Visit our Website: townlegal.com

Victoria and Nikita are back with more planning news stories, including the Supreme Court’s very recent decision in the CG Fry case, the Revised Flood Risk PPG, the latest on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s progress through Parliament, and decisions on a couple of recovered planning appeals. We also welcome Virginia Blackman, head of the Site Assembly and Compulsory Purchase team at Avison Young, to talk to us about the publication of the New Towns Taskforce’s recommendations and the g...