Room 106

In this episode we’ll explore:

• Rishi Sunak’s installation as prime minister – what does it mean for planning?
• Michael Gove’s return as levelling up secretary – what’s at the top of his in-tray?
• And two of the UK’s biggest firms of planning solicitors consider merging – what might this mean for the planning law sector?

PLUS Investment zones: what kinds of sites are coming forward, and will they survive Liz Truss’s departure as prime minister?                                                                                                                                    

AND in our readers’ choice section, the councillor who now has police protection after an “angry mob” disrupted a community event to protest against a planning approval.

By the end of the show, you should know enough to approach the office coffee machine with confidence. 

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

 A transcript of the podcast is available to download from the Planning website here. 

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• Reports that the government will relax the affordable housing and biodiversity demands placed on developers, among other deregulation – will it happen?
• The Conservative Party conference – what we learnt
• What led an inspector to describe a council as the “epitome of unreasonable behaviour” over its refusal of 700-home scheme?

PLUS our deep dive section explores how the government’s proposal to replace what they call “top-down Stalinist housing targets” with local “incentives” for communities to accept new development might work.                                                                                                                                    

AND in our readers’ choice section, we learn about staff shortages being blamed for a deputy council leader being granted permission by mistake.

By the end of the show, you should know enough to approach the office coffee machine with confidence. 

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

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

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• The promised new bill to speed infrastructure delivery – how has the sector reacted?
• The Labour Party conference – what did we learn?
• More acquisition news in the consultancy sector, including an unexpected development

PLUS our deep dive section explores the planning implications of the government’s promised investment zones.                                                                                                                                    

AND in our readers’ choice section, we look at a council at risk of being stripped of planning powers because staff shortages are causing delays in processing applications.

By the end of the show, you should know enough to approach the office coffee machine with confidence. 

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

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

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In the excerpt, sponsored by the law firm Shoosmiths, we’ll be exploring more of the implications of Liz Truss’s installation as Prime Minister.

Our panellists are: 

Ike Ijeh, head of housing, architecture and urban space, Policy Exchange

Chris Rumfitt, founder & chief executive, Field Consulting

Karen Howard, partner, Shoosmiths

Richard Garlick, editor, Planning (chair)

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• The appointment of Simon Clarke as the new secretary of state for levelling up - what does it mean for planning?
• The planning implications of other key ministerial appointments in Liz Truss’s new team 
• With further delays to local plans continuing to emerge, we’ll examine the reasons behind them

PLUS in our Deep Dive segment, sponsored by Shoosmiths, we explore more of the implications of Liz Truss’s installation as Prime Minister                                                                                                                                    

PLUS, in our readers’ choice section, we report of a five figure fine for a developer who flouted a tree preservation order

By the end of the show, you should know enough to cope with any awkward questions from your boss. 

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

Our previous episode on Liz Truss’s planning priorities, how a councillor ‘brought his council into disrepute’, and the legal advice that led a council to drop its defence of a 900-home planning refusal, can be found here.

A transcript of the podcast is available to download from the Planning website here.

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Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

In this episode we’ll explore:

• What Liz Truss’s premiership means for planning: her planning priorities, how quickly her government will act on them, and the implications of the leadership change for the Johnson-era reform programme
• How an appeal against the refusal of 900 homes led to a council’s lawyers advising it that they cannot “defend the indefensible”
• What was behind a ruling that found an elected member-cum-public affairs consultant had “brought his council into disrepute” 
• What led up to another councillor being removed from a planning committee for “passing a document not part of the planning papers” to colleagues

PLUS, in our readers’ choice section, we cover a report that a man is being evicted from his shipping container home of 30 years because it did not have planning permission

By the end of the show, you should know enough to cope with any awkward questions from your boss. 

A transcript of the podcast is available to download from Planning's website here.

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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’ll explore:

• What the decision by two more councils to delay the production of their local plans tells us about the state of plan-making across the country  
• Why the High Court has ruled that a structure does not need to be physically connected to a building to qualify as a permissible extension in the green belt
• How the accountant who illegally built Britain’s biggest man cave ended up in jail for for refusing to start the building’s removal

AND in our deep dive section, we’ll be examining the latest spate of takeovers of big planning consultancies by multidisciplinary North American firms, and asking what is driving them.

PLUS, why an MP told Parliament that it’s time to “make the planning profession sexy again”.

A transcript of the podcast is available to download from the Planning website here.

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• Why an MP told the House of Commons that councillors in his constituency have “dismally failed” in preparation of their “disgraceful” local plan 
• The Tory leadership hopefuls’ latest planning proposals
• How conflict with an emerging plan led the High Court to quash a successful appeal against the refusal of 475 homes on an unallocated site 

And our deep dive section examines the steps the government is taking to tackle the nutrient water pollution problems, and whether they will unblock housing permissions

PLUS, the latest in the long-running planning battle between Jeremy Clarkson and West Oxfordshire District Council.

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download from the Planning website.

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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:

• The new ministerial line-up at the Department of Levelling Up, and what their appointments might mean for planning
• The planning policies set out by Tory leadership hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

A transcript of this podcast is available from the Planning website here.

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• Why an Essex council has withdrawn its local plan, despite it being found sound
• What the Prime Minister might have meant by his comment that the government will make it easier to convert farm buildings into homes 
• Why housing secretary Michael Gove corrected his previous suggestion that the new National Planning Policy Framework will be published in July
• PLUS we take a deep dive into the official guidance on limiting water pollution from development, which so far is claimed to have blocked 100,000 homes from going forward
• And the readers’ choice: A planning committee chair appears in court over alleged planning breaches 

 A transcript of the podcast is available from the Planning website here.

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