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Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure

Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure

Update: 2025-06-19
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This week, we discuss: 


  • A local authority threatening legal action and blasting a planning inspector after their local plan was found to have failed the legal duty to cooperate. 
  • The housing ministry removing three councils from planning performance special measures. 
  • The key takeaways for planners from the government’s spending review. 
  • Keir Starmer announcing the launch of an AI tool, which promises to cut planning officers’ time. 


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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Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure

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