Room 106

In this episode, we’ll be discussing:

• The government announcing a series of “emergency” measures designed to increase the uptake of affordable homes secured via section 106 legal agreements;
• The housing minister removing a city council from planning performance “special measures” designation after almost two years; 
• And two recent court cases in which landowners who have breached planning rules have been handed prison sentences.

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 Deep Dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at the government’s planning policy and legislation programme over the next six months – what are the key announcements and measures that we can expect?

Among other things, we’ll be talking about measures in the recently-passed Planning and Infrastructure Act, national decision-making policies and impending changes to the plan-making system.

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: 

• Two councils revealing that their planning services have been hit by cyber-attacks. 
• The planning minister unveiling fresh details on the government’s new towns programme, including that it will consult on its preferred locations for the proposed settlements in the “coming weeks”. 
• The same minister telling inspectors and councils that they should take a “pragmatic” approach to developers’ requests to modify planning consents to enable lower affordable housing contributions.

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 deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing Planning’s latest annual Planning Consultancy Market Report, which takes an in-depth and exclusive look at the planning consultancy market.

We'll be examining:

• The firms with the biggest and fastest-growing planning consultancy teams.
• The companies with the highest planning fee income and fee rates.
• And consultants’ thoughts on the state of the job market and most sought-after skills. 

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 unsurprisingly be discussing the publication of a new and heavily rewritten draft version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). We’re going to devote almost the whole show to the new framework, which came out just before Christmas, including looking at the very different structure and approach in the draft document as well as proposed changes around densification of development, the presumption in favour of sustainable development, viability, green belt, strategic planning and local housing need.

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: 

• Some well-sourced intelligence on what we can expect from the new National Planning Policy Framework, which was published this week, and discussion of the forthcoming passing of the government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Act. 
• A series of emerging local plans in different parts of the country that have run into trouble with government planning inspectors during their examination.
• A council refusing plans for 900 green belt homes despite a planning chief’s warning of a “very strong risk” of an appeal costs award.
• A warning from the chief planning inspector that appeal decision-makers are facing “false and fraudulent representations” generated by artificial intelligence.

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 discussing an exclusive, in-depth report by Planning on why the government’s drive to digitise planning is yet to make a meaningful impact on services.

We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. 

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:

• All the planning news from last week’s Budget, including the promise of further funding to boost planning capacity.
• An important announcement from the housing minister on the future of the legal duty to cooperate for and other impending changes to the local plan system.

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 edition, we’ll be discussing the housing secretary’s announcement of a series of further changes to the planning system, including:

• Changes to the ministerial application call-in process that would require English councils to tell the housing ministry when they intend to refuse planning applications for schemes of more than 150 homes.
• Impending changes to the National Planning Policy Framework that would mean planning applications for homes and other “suitable” development near “well-connected” train stations will receive a default “yes” from decision-makers, providing they “meet certain rules”.
• A consultation on stripping three statutory consultees of their role and other revisions to the way local authorities engage with statutory consultees.

We’ll also be discussing why a council has apologised after accidentally releasing personal details of 625 respondents to its local plan consultation.

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 discussing:

• How the government’s decision to make national development management policies non-statutory will impact plan-making and development management.
• What the proposed relaxation of London’s affordable housing requirements would mean for practitioners – both inside and outside the capital.

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.