In this bonus edition, we discuss a recent investigation by Planning on the impact of cost-saving management consultants on council planning services, asking:

• What is this cost-saving process and why are so many councils doing it?
• Why are planning officers concerned about it?
• What examples are there of local authorities that have undergone these procedures and how have their planning departments been affected?

PLUS, we round up the key announcements in last week's Budget and the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode, we will be taking a closer look at: 

• The implications of a High Court ruling that overturned a controversial decision by housing secretary Michael Gove to block the demolition and redevelopment of the flagship Marks and Spencer store in London's Oxford Street;
• What an important report by the government’s competitions regulator on housebuilding has to say about planning;
• The mysterious retraction and republication by the Planning Inspectorate of a decision by energy secretary Claire Coutinho to approve plans for an energy from waste facility.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this bonus edition, we examine a court judgment that quashed a housing association's bid to amend an outline consent for a huge estate regeneration project, detailing:

• Why commentators see the ruling as significant
• The likely practical implications of the judgment for developers and councils, and why it has prompted a "bit of a panic" among some in the development sector 
• What it means for the use of 'drop-in' applications

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode, we will:

• Explain how the government wants to shake up householder permitted development rights, and other moves to deregulate planning rules to create new homes and support electric vehicle charging points and heat pumps, in a new consultation;
• Examine ministers' proposed changes to national planning policy on brownfield land development;
• Discuss a row between housing secretary Michael Gove and London mayor Sadiq Khan over whether London Plan housing targets are being met;
• Consider the impact of the long-awaited introduction of the ten per cent biodiversity net gain requirement in all new developments, including new government guidance on the matter.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode, we will take a deep dive previewing the biggest policy and legislation changes affecting the planning sector in the year ahead, including:

• Further and more extensive changes to the National Planning Policy Framework; 
• A consultation on proposed new national development management policies;
• A shake-up of the local plan system.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

NOTE TO LISTENERS: This episode was recorded before the details emerged of this week's fresh planning announcements by the government.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode, we will: 

• Explain how the government has moved to resolve confusion in the sector over how the proposed new four-year housing land supply target for councils with advanced, but not adopted, local plans will work;
• Examine the latest ministerial intervention in a council’s local plan process;
• Discuss new government guidance for local authorities that aims to address the hold-up of permissions for new housing in areas affected by 'nutrient neutrality' rules that seek to mitigate pollution into protected waterways.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this bonus episode, we discuss:

• How the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) changes the way councils meet local housing need
• What the new NPPF means for local authority housing land supply targets

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode, our topics for discussion will cover:

• The government revealing the biodiversity net gain launch date for both major and smaller developments. 
• The High Court quashing approval of developer's amendment, which would have made it easier to revise 2,745-home estate regeneration consent. More on this can be found on Planning Resource.
• When a local resident was offered “cash and a night out at a lap dancing club” in relation to a planning application in Llanfabon village, Caerphilly, Wales, the minutes of Nelson Community Council meeting reveal.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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The award-winning Planning team extracts the latest key planning news from the blizzard of new information in Room 106, the vault where all new planning information is gathered.

In this bonus edition we discuss:

• Reports that the long-awaited introduction of a requirement for developers to improve a site’s biodiversity when they get planning has been delayed again.
• A damning review of a council’s planning service by a local government body.
• Another local authority that has no planning enforcement officers left, yet faces 300 cases per year.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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In this episode we’ll explore the government’s consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework and other parts of the planning system, including proposed changes to:

• What councils have to do to address housing need, demonstrate an adequate supply of housing sites, and show that enough homes are being delivered in their areas
• Plan-making and the test of soundness, as well as the requirement for authorities to plan across boundaries
• Green belt reviews

PLUS We’ll also be rounding up the other key news that broke over the Christmas and New Year period.

By the end of the show, you should know enough to persuade your colleagues that you spent Christmas poring over planning policy. 

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag 

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.