In this podcast, Richard Harwood QC looks at how planning law finally took control over the demolition of buildings. In 2009 the former Mitchell’s Brewery site was the subject of an epic battle as SAVE Britain’s Heritage fought to save it, challenging the government’s Demolition Direction in the process.

In this podcast, Richard Harwood QC looks at the numerous ways of obtaining planning consent without making a planning application to the local authority and asks, how far have development orders and zoning been used?