At the kind invitation of Landmark Chambers and Town Legal, Sam Stafford was in London this week to contribute to a seminar on the NPPF update, which, eagle-eyed 50 Shades Listeners no doubt spotted, emerged as part of a cavalcade of Planning Reform Day announcements before Christmas.

The seminar was over-subscribed and so was recorded in order that it could be shared more widely as a podcast.

This episode features:

• Rupert Warren KC talking about the implications of the NPPF for housing delivery, taking in the standard method, the cities uplift and the changes around five and four year land supply;
• Anjoli Foster talking about the impact of the NPPF on plan-making, taking in Green Belt, transitional arrangements and the impact of this new version on plans that have paused, as well as soundness;
• Meeta Kaur talking about the NPPF changes that relate to design and beauty, small sites and community-led housing, retirement housing and agricultural land;
• Simon Ricketts talking about the linkages between the NPPF and the Levelling Up & Regeneration Act, with his observations on what provisions of the latter we make pay the closest attention to; and
• Sam talking waffle.

Some accompanying reading.

Reforms to national planning policy

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7281/reforms-to-national-planning-policy/

Reforms to national planning policy report: government response

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reforms-to-national-planning-policy-report-government-response

Changes to 5YHLS under the revised NPPF: Not Great, Not Terrible

https://lichfields.uk/blog/2023/december/20/changes-to-5yhls-under-the-revised-nppf-not-great-not-terrible

Four out of Five

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-out-five-josef-cannon-ugqje/

Local Plan Preparation: Barriers and Opportunities

https://www.rtpi.org.uk/policy-and-research/research/local-plan-research-project/

Planning working paper

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-working-paper

Labour’s planning proposals

https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/10/labours-planning-proposals.html

Labour pledges to tighten right-to-buy as part of UK housing overhaul

https://www.ft.com/content/2726620e-b6e5-4547-b358-ff4fe175171e

The Long-Term Plan for Housing II

https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-long-term-plan-for-housing-ii.html

Some accompanying viewing.

Hashi’s appearance on Question Time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vfv6

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Happy New Years

https://youtu.be/U4rkzyGFFo0?si=2gCA8461BCnsqT7H

Some accompanying listening.

Future Love by Ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cN0vWnVaHU

50 Shades T-Shirts!

If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning you will have heard Clive Betts say that...

'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.

Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html