Room 106

In this episode, we’ll unsurprisingly be discussing last week’s publication of the final version of the new and heavily rewritten National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including:

• The transitional arrangements for local authorities;
• New requirements for densification of development;
• Significant changes to the long-established presumption in favour of sustainable development;
• And notable revisions to the heritage impact test and policies on green belt, decision-making, local plan-making and strategic planning.

We’ll also be rounding up the other key non-NPPF news from the past week to make sure you’re fully informed 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.

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The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section. 

This month, we’ll be discussing:

• How the refusal of an 800-home mixed-use scheme highlights how specific “footnote 9” policies have to be met when an area is subject to the National Planning Policy Framework’s “tilted balance”.
• The importance of unmet need as a consideration in an inspector’s decision to allow a proposal for a very large employment development on a greenfield site in the West Midlands.
• How a key court ruling clarifies the lawfulness of planning officers sharing draft committee reports with applicants before meetings. 
• The final three decisions on nationally important solar farms by former energy secretary Ed Miliband.
• How inspectors are dealing with a London borough’s approach to air-conditioning units and its “cooling hierarchy” policy.

More information on all these cases can be found in the August edition of Casebook on Planning Resource. 

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 special edition, we’ll be giving our first-take briefing on the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including:

• The easing of planning rules for development around train stations – how these measures have been relaxed in some ways, but tightened up in others.
• The dropping of proposals in the draft for tougher affordable housing requirements.
• Giving councils more leeway to set their own energy-efficiency standards.
• And increased protections for national parks and landscapes.

We'll also be discussing two other big planning announcements from the government this week: 

• Its response to a consultation on measures seeking to streamline the statutory consultee system – the organisations that have had their statutory consultee status removed, and those that have retained it.
• And the long-awaited results of the delayed housing delivery test, including which councils are facing its most severe penalty.

Key planning news, and why it is 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 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’ll be discussing:

• The High Court quashing a council’s consent for a Premier League football club’s green belt training ground following a “serious” failure by planning officers to disclose background papers on the environmental impacts.
• A series of decisions by planning minister Matthew Pennycook, including the overturning of a council’s approval of plans for a mixed-use scheme comprising 3,500 homes and an 8,000-seat stadium due to health risks.
• The government relaxing height limits on solar panels that can be installed without a planning application.

Key planning news, and why it is 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 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.

The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section. 

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

• What the return of Angela Rayner and the retention of Matthew Pennycook, as housing secretary and planning minister, respectively, means for the planning sector;
• And why Pennycook’s latest ministerial letter to PINS could offer a lifeline for some local plan examinations. 

More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource. 

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.

The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section. 

In this episode, we’ll be discussing:

• A series of appointments at the housing ministry as part of the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first cabinet reshuffle – with some familiar faces returning and continuing at the departments; 
• The publication of the new draft London Plan - what are the key new policies?;
• And the latest letter from the planning minister to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) on local plan examinations that advises inspectors how they should assess site viability and deliverability. 

More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource. 

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.

The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section. 

This month, we’ll be discussing:

• How inspectors are assessing data centre need and weighing up landscape impacts; 
• A retirement scheme permitted on green belt despite not meeting the 'golden rules' in national policy;
• A court ruling that considered when public consultations should be reopened if a planning application is resubmitted; 
• The planning issues that are being thrown up by the spectacular growth in padel courts.

More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource. 

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.

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 episode, we’ll be discussing:

• The arrival of a new prime minister. What are the key planning tasks in Andy Burnham’s in-tray? And what has he said about planning since he became Labour Party at the end of last week?
• What’s happening with the much-anticipated new version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)?
• The government confirming national planning fee rates that seek to meet 90 per cent of the costs of processing applications

Key planning news, and why it is 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 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 examining:

• Why many practitioners are up in arms about the new 250-word limit for written appeal forms.
• How a £37k compensation award for a female planning officer reminds the sector to be vigilant about unequal pay.

Key planning news, and why it is 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 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’ll be discussing:

• The key planning takeaways from the first big speech by the likely Prime Minister-elect Andy Burnham;
• The planning minister making a last-minute intervention in the examination of the City of London Corporation’s emerging local plan over its potential heritage impacts;
• And three councils launching a legal challenge against the reduced affordable housing requirement in the mayor of London’s home-delivery stimulus package.

Key planning news, and why it is 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 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.