The Planning Podcast

The Planning Podcast turns to look at the practical effect of town and village green registration through the case of TW Logistics. Where a long standing use and activity co-exists with recreational uses, will that activity mean that the landowner will commit an offence under the ‘Victorian Statutes’?  Richard Kimblin QC’s guests are Rowena Meager and Sioned Davies, both planning and environmental barristers at No5 Chambers, who explain the essential background, the practical legal effect and draw attention to the potential effects of registration.

As we approach the anniversary of remote working, Richard Kimblin QC and guests share practical tips and guidance for future virtual and hybrid hearings, inquiries, examinations and trials.  Richard is delighted to introduce Sioned Davies to The Planning Podcast, joined by regulars Oliver Lawrence and Howard Leithead, all planning and environmental barristers at No5 Chambers. What have we learnt over the past 12 months and how can we make a positive move forward?

Richard Kimblin QC hosts a short podcast with Satnam Choongh and Christian Hawley, planning and environmental barristers at No5 Chambers, to look at two cases from the Court of Appeal which address the tilted balance. When and how do you get to the presumption in favour of sustainable development, and what may lawfully be done with it when it is in play?

Planning Podcast 101 - adding Court of Appeal cases on paragraphs 11 and 90 of the Framework in the same short podcast! Looking at routes to the presumption in favour of sustainable development and what retail policy in paragraph 90 means. With Satnam Choongh, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Chambers, Richard Kimblin QC introduces the first of a pair of Planning Podcasts looking at practical points from two recent  Court of Appeal Cases. The second part of this podcast will follow next week - looking at two more Court of Appeal cases on the presumption.

Spotting key themes and evolving issues from 2020, the top tips team turns to small housing sites; the continued impact and evolution of the Rosewell Review (with a paper from Howard Leithead here); the recovery, a top tip from Leanne Buckley-Thomson (which also the subject of a note here) and an issue which will dominate for decades to come - climate. With sincere thanks for lending us your ears during the last, tricky, nine-months, stay safe and do enjoy a peaceful and relaxing Christmas.

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With the ever-up-to-date-team of Leanne Buckley Thomson, Howard Leithead and Oliver Lawence,  a package of what has made them sit up and take notice in the planning and environmental world in the last couple of weeks: highways impacts and the Framework, a curious consent in Snowdonia and an update on penalties for environmental offences.

You might think it is obvious – you increase housing land supply, you improve affordability. That is a premise of much forward planning and of Planning for the Future. Is that correct and straightforward, or not?

Here, in detailed examination of the issues, in a deliberately ‘long-listen’ we are joined by Dr Nikodem Szumilo, Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at UCL, and by Richard Blyth, Chief Policy Officer at the RTPI. Together with Satnam Choongh, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Chambers, Richard Kimblin QC introduces us to the detail and develops the issues. And you would like to read further then go to:  Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space no. 1 (2019): 25-50. Bernard Fingleton, Franz Fuerst, Nikodem Szumilo

The Planning Podcast turns to design, coding and making beautiful places for communities. With Professor Robert Adam, in conversation with Leanne Buckley-Thompson, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Chambers. Leanne gets us focussed on what is happening and proposed, Professor Adam maps out what we can achieve with more certainty of design and what the consequences tend to be for communities, and risks for site promoters. It is a terrific topic which is at the heart of what we all do, whatever your role in place making.

With the ever-up-to-date-team of Leanne Buckley Thompson, Howard Leithead and Oliver Lawence they have packaged up a short and quick fire review of what has made them sit up and take notice in the planning world in the last couple of weeks.

First up for the Autumn is the Environment Bill and more particularly, environmental targets – what are they replacing, what is industry, affected sectors and the Government’s thinking on how those targets should best be set; how and when are they enforced; and what has running a marathon got to do with it? With Nina Pindham, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Chambers, Council member and Trustee of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association, we get right up to date.