This week, we will be focusing on a series of planning announcements made last week by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and housing secretary Angela Rayner. 

We'll be discussing: 

• Where the proposals for new towns submitted to the government's task force have come from, what requirements they will have to meet, and what happens next.
• What type of housing schemes are going to be prioritised for attention under the Whitehall-backed New Homes Accelerator scheme, which offers planning support to unblock stalled schemes. 
• What we know about the over £3 million of grants for local councils to bolster planning capacity announced last week. 

In addition, we discuss the housing secretary quashing a decision by her predecessor, which allowed the expansion of a car park in a national landscape, for failing to apply a new duty to support such protected sites and national parks.

We’ll also 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. 

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 

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