Room 106

In this episode, we summarise key changes proposed in the government’s draft revised National Planning Policy Framework, as well as initial reaction from the 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 is 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 will be discussing the first King’s Speech since the new Labour government was elected, which featured two bills proposing changes to the planning system.

We will also look at:

• The appointment of a planning barrister as one of government’s most senior legal advisors following her election to Parliament as an MP;
• Fury in the industry at an ex-prime ministerial advisor’s claims in a national newspaper opinion piece of the planning system’s ‘endemic sleaze’ and ‘rampant corruption’ – allegations that have been described as “unsubstantiated”.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag 

Room 106 is 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 examine the planning issues that are raised by the growth of data centres, including:

• The current national policy situation;
• The new Labour government’s attitude towards them;
• The challenges facing local authorities and developers planning for these kinds of development.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.

This week, we’re focusing on Labour's seismic election victory the plethora of planning changes it announced almost straight away. 

This includes:

• A series of planning announcements made by new chancellor Rachel Reeves in her speech on Monday morning; 
• A change to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to remove what the government called the “absurd” de facto ban on onshore wind schemes;
• The appointment of a new housing secretary and two new housing department ministers;
• A flavour of some of the reaction to the general election result from the sector bodies.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag 

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

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In this Deep Dive edition, we discuss an investigation by Planning into:

• How the government measures up to its own local authority planning targets when it comes to speed of decision-making;
• The effectiveness of the 'special measures' regime to tackle councils’ development management performance.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag 

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

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In this edition, we’re going to talk about: 

• A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court on an oil drilling project, which legal experts believe could have significant wider implications for planning decisions;  
• A council revealing that its legal challenge to minister’s consent for a 1,000-home high-rise project has been dropped because it made a ‘procedural error';
• New government figures that show the number of planning applications submitted and decided upon plunged to a record low in 2023/24. 

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be looking into: 

• The planning promises made in the Labour Party’s general election manifesto;  
• Exclusive research by Planning predicting the results of the government's next housing delivery test.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.

This week, we will be talking about: 

• Councils delaying local plan work due to next month’s general election; 
• The planning promises in the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrat manifestos, which were published earlier this week;  
• The planning proposals that the Labour Party has announced in the campaign so far. 

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining:

• What planning measures we can expect from the Labour Party’s first 100 days in power if they’re successful in next month’s general election;
• How the announcement of the general election will impact ongoing and planned planning policy and legislation.

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 more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• The Labour Party’s new towns policy;
• The Prime Minister’s surprise announcement of a general election;
• Parliamentary public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, criticises the government’s new biodiversity net gain requirement;
• A council accuses a branch of a countryside charity of spreading “misinformation” about its emerging local plan. 

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. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @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.