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 nearly 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @PlanningMag

In this episode:

• Deep dive: how planning authorities and developers can meet their new legal duty to boost biodiversity
• Key news from the past seven days, including:
• Parliamentary questions on why neither the National Planning Policy Framework nor national planning guidance includes a green belt safeguard from 2015 ministerial statement
• Lack of a link road scuppers scheme for 1,100 homes

PLUS Why a permission has been granted to demolish a none year old housing scheme

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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 nearly 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

In this episode:

• What the Environment Act means for planning
• Early indications of the new Department for Levelling Up’s approach to planning policy- and decision-making
• Key findings from our Planning Consultancy Market Report 2021 

PLUS Members overrule officers to approve a green belt solar farm in Brentwood

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Key recent 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 nearly 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @PlanningMag

• The fallout from the Prime Minister’s inference that greenfield housebuilding is unnecessary
• Key recent news stories: Early indications of Michael Gove’s approach to planning as the new secretary of state; The Autumn Budget’s implications for the sector; and a council calls for ‘respect and tolerance’ following ‘threats, aggression and intimidation’ 

• “Readers’ Choice’: the news story that readers have flocked to 

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Key recent 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. planningresource.co.uk @PlanningMag

In this episode:

• The implications of the government’s softening of the penalties faced by councils who deliver fewer homes than they should
• Key recent news stories: The impact of the Prime Minister’s inference that greenfield housebuilding is unnecessary; a potentially significant refusal on design grounds of 307 homes in an area with a significant housing supply shortage; and the authorities in danger of special measures designation for having the most decisions overturned at appeal

PLUS

• Why is this podcast called ‘Room 106’?
• And “Readers’ Choice’: the news story that doesn’t seem that important to day-to-day working life, but which readers have flocked to 

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