Room 106

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:

• Which councils have weaker or stronger planning positions as a result of this month’s Housing Delivery Test results
• Key things you need to know about how the government has fleshed out its proposals to make new development deliver increased biodiversity
• The latest ministerial signals on the future direction of planning policy

PLUS Women in the planning consultancy sector: which consultants have the highest proportion of female planners in their teams and their boardrooms

AND Ed Sheeran plans to dig deep

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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:

Key news from the past month, including:

• Local authority planning officers detail experiences of stress, burnout and abuse 
• Researchers predict which councils will fail this year’s housing delivery test and face the penalty of losing planning powers
• Previously temporary permitted development rights that allow markets to be held outdoors and hospitality businesses to put up marquees on their land without requiring a planning application are to be made permanent, despite both councils and the government’s heritage adviser saying the move would be premature

PLUS Deep dive: What differentiated two big Taylor Wimpy housing schemes, only one of which was deemed to have adequate road infrastructure support

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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:

• 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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