Room 106

Apr 14 2025 142 ep. 24 mins 44

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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep141: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Apr 14 2025 27 mins

This is the second edition of our new monthly series examining the key appeal and court decisions from the past four weeks.As before, we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles the long-running Casebook section of Planning. This week, we will be discussing: Two notable appeal decisions, one of which centres on the flood risk sequential and exception tests in n

Ep140: Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to national guidance updates

Apr 09 2025 20 mins

In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to changes to national Planning Practice Guidance.Why councils are refunding householders hit by massive community infrastructure levy bills.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading s

Ep139: The planning news from the Spring Statement plus the Planning and Infrastructure Bill's second reading

Apr 02 2025 27 mins

This week, we will be examining: The chancellor’s spring statement, in which she announced the independent fiscal watchdog’s forecasted impact of the government's revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) on housing delivery and economic growth. The second reading of the government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill. A k

Ep138: How a council introduced a four-day working week that improved its planning performance

Mar 27 2025 16 mins

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining how and why a Cambridgeshire council's planning department implemented a four-day working week and the impact on its performance.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’s important, brought to you by

Ep137: Casebook Extra - the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Mar 24 2025 19 mins

This week, we are launching the first of a new monthly series examining the key appeal and court decisions from the past four weeks.Joining me is our technical editor David Dewar who compiles our long-running Casebook section of Planning's weekly bulletin and formerly the magazine, which highlights the key appeal and legal decisions from that week.This week, we will be discussing:&

Ep136: Your 25-minute guide to the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Mar 19 2025 29 mins

This week, we will be examining the government’s publication of its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill, focusing on the following measures:Allowing councils to set their own planning application fees up to the level of cost recovery.Changing decision-making by planning committees.Introducing formal strategic planning arrangements. Setting up a centralised nature resto

Ep135: Why developers are predicting a surge in planning applications this year and how the system will cope

Mar 13 2025 26 mins

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining:Why many developers are predicting that planning application volumes – particularly for new homes – will rise sharply this year following the Labour government’s wide-ranging changes to the planning system. Whether the planning system will be able to cope in the event of a hike in application numbers.We’ll also be roundin

Ep134: Your 20-minute lowdown on the new planning guidance on green belt and other policy areas

Mar 05 2025 28 mins

This week, we will be focusing on new planning guidance that’s been published by the housing ministry.We will be discussing:The long-awaited new guidance on how new national planning policy on green belt should be applied.Other new guidance on development on brownfield land, transitional arrangements for joint local plans, and how planners should take account of new local nature

Ep133: Are statutory consultees really holding up the planning process and how are ministers likely to address the issue?

Feb 26 2025 26 mins

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing the government’s plans to accelerate the involvement of statutory consultees, such as government agencies, in the planning process. We’ll examine why:There are concerns about the role of such bodies in planning. How justified these concerns are. How the government is likely to respond to the issue.We’ll also be r

Ep132: Where the 100 new town proposals are coming from, plus other key news from the past week

Feb 20 2025 25 mins

This week, we will be focusing on a series of planning announcements made last week by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and housing secretary Angela Rayner. We'll be discussing: Where the proposals for new towns submitted to the government's task force have come from, what requirements they will have to meet, and what happens next.What type of housing schemes are going to