Room 106

In this episode, we discuss the publication of the final version of the new Labour government’s revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

In particular, we're going to focus on the changes to national policy on local housing need, housing land supply, and green belt, and the transitional arrangements for local plan-making.

We'll also be rounding up the other key non-NPPF news from the past week.

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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In this episode, we discuss:

• The housing secretary this week announcing radical changes to planning committee decision-making;
• The prime minister making the government’s national housing target and a promise to speed up major infrastructure consents one of its six parliamentary milestones in its Plan for Change;
• The government cutting its local authority planning performance assessment period for speed of decision-making from 24 to 12 months.

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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In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing a Planning report on the impact of growing local authority mergers on planning teams and asking why they are happening and what the benefits and challenges are. 

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.  

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

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Why the Office for Place was axed, and what it means for design quality;
• What the planning minister revealed when he appeared before the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee;
• Councils that are taking successful action against developers to uphold planning gain contributions.

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.  

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

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing a Planning report into England’s 30 busiest local planning authorities, including: which councils are listed in the study; their application workload and fee income; their staffing levels; their appeal success rate; and their enforcement activity.

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.  

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

In this issue, we will be discussing the following stories and asking whether they show a toughening of the government’s line against local authorities that it believes to be resisting development:

• Housing secretary Angela Rayner calling in plans for an 8,400-home garden village in Kent just three hours before the council was due to consider it;
• An inspector allowing up to 1,000 homes on green belt land in Essex on the basis of the council’s ‘extremely poor’ housing delivery record;
• Other inspectors cancelling examination hearings into Shropshire Council’s local plan after raising "significant" concerns about the strategy’s soundness.

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.  

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

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing a Planning investigation into how the new biodiversity net gain policy is bedding in six months after it was introduced, and highlighting a series of findings from our exclusive reader survey.  

We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from last week’s budget.  

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.  

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

This week, we discuss:

• Research by housebuilders on how much unspent developer contribution cash councils are holding onto in their reserves;
• Further local plans falling victim to the new hardline approach from planning inspectors on the duration of plan examinations:
• Two unusual planning enforcement cases.

We also round 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 

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.

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

In this Deep Dive edition, we'll be discussing: 

• How draft National Planning Policy Framework revisions would allow more green belt applications to avoid going through the tough “very special circumstances” decision-making test; 
• Why ministerial efforts to speed up local plan examinations is likely to see more plans fail in the short term but should force councils to submit better quality strategies.

We also round 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 

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.

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

This week, we discuss:

• Why planning consultants and lawyers are alarmed about new requirements for the early submission of planning obligation agreements as part of written representation appeals; 
• Three more councils announcing delays to their local plans in response to the government’s proposed national planning policy changes;
• A council in Oxfordshire being condemned as "wholly irresponsible" for a £213,000 overspend on defending appeals so far this year;
• Seven planning partners defect from one of the country’s biggest planning law firms to a rival outfit.

We also round 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 

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.

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