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

In this episode we discuss:

• The government’s plans to free up housebuilding by relaxing water pollution controls on new developments being rejected by the House of Lords.
• A Surrey council has responded furiously to an order from the planning minister not to withdraw its emerging local plan from examination. We explain the background to the row.   
• Lawyers have not long returned from their annual get-together in Oxford. We’ll hear the key messages to emerge from the Joint Planning Law Conference.
• PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The government’s decision earlier this month to extend its new requirement for second staircases in tower blocks – intended to improve fire safety – to a much wider range of buildings.
• PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

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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

In this episode we discuss:

• The government's proposal to change the law to let authorities ignore nutrient pollution of protected watercourses by development schemes. 
• A relaxation of planning policy governing wind farm development, aiming to better balance local communities’ concerns against the benefits of renewable energy.  
• PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly.

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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

In this episode we discuss:

• The government’s decision not to ring-fence for planning purposes the increase in council income that should arise from the forthcoming rise in planning application fees
• PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

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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

In this episode we discuss:

• The implications of a court ruling that a development that does not materially change a building’s exterior can still harm an area’s ‘character and appearance’.
• How a new government ‘dashboard’ is intended to help council planners estimate school pupil demand from new housing 
• And how worried should councils be about the housing minister’s warning that delaying their local plans “will not end well for them”.

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

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

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly.

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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

In this bonus edition we discuss the implications of local government secretary Michael Gove’s highly controversial decision to turn down plans by retailer Marks & Spencer to demolish its 1930s Oxford Street building in London’s West End and replace it with a new building. We ask:

• How did the secretary of state come to be making the decision on the scheme and why did he disagree with the inspector’s recommendation to approve it?
• M&S has issued a furious response. Is it likely to challenge the decision in the courts?
• What is the significance of the decision in terms of the bearing that heritage considerations can have on planning decisions?
• What does it say about the need for decision-makers to consider the embodied carbon of existing buildings when applicants seek to demolish them? And what are the implications of this for local plan policies and the National Planning Policy Framework?

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

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

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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

In this edition:

• The government has published its long-awaited response to feedback on its proposals to increase local authority planning fees – we take a look at what will change and when.
• Meanwhile, the levelling up department has also announced proposals to extend permitted development rights, which often don’t require fees – we’ll explain what is being suggested. 
• We’ll also summarise key elements of other government documents published last week, including the consultation on changing plan-making, proposals to change the planning system for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and new guidance on when planning permission is needed to allow development intended to enable working from home.

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

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

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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

In this bonus episode we’ll be discussing how political parties are likely to adjust their planning policies in the light of May’s local election results, including:

• What parties were promising and how that went down with the electorate.
• What the election results say about public attitudes to planning and housebuilding.
• How the results are likely to influence the parties’ planning policies going forward?

PLUS, we round up the most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

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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

In this episode:

• Housing secretary Michael Gove has confirmed that the NPPF revisions will not appear until at least September – we look at when they are likely to finally appear. 
• An influential parliamentary committee has warned that the government’s 300,000-home a year housebuilding target would be ‘impossible to achieve’ under its proposed NPPF changes – we explain how it came to that conclusion.
• The government’s new infrastructure levy is intended to replace existing methods of securing money from developers to pay for infrastructure and affordable housing. Ministers have now said councils will be able to require some of the contributions to be paid in-kind – we explain the details.

PLUS, we round up the most important news stories of the past fortnight.

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

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly. 

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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

In this bonus edition, we discuss the government’s stalled programme of changes to the planning system, including:

• What do those who work closely with government think are the reasons for the delay?
• Are there political factors, and political hurdles that the government is waiting to get past before it pushes forward with the changes?
• What stages does the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill still have to go through before it becomes law (clearing the way for the government to announce the further NPPF changes it has promised), and how long is this likely to take?

PLUS, we round up the most important news stories of the past week.

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly. 

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