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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
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- 228 - Ep223: All the planning news from the Reform UK party conference, plus a first-take on the government’s council reorganisation review
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
All the planning news from the Reform UK party conference last weekend.Two new local plan interventions by planning minister Matthew Pennycook.The housing secretary and the planning minister telling councils to “scale up” housing delivery immediately and urging them to “make full use of section 106 opportunities”.And breaking news that the government has paused its roll-out of local government reorganisation.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 more than 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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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 - 23min - 227 - Ep222: Why appeal-ready planning applications are on the rise and what it means for applicants and authorities
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining:
The implications of the rise of so-called “appeal-ready” planning applications – what are they, why are they more common and what does it mean for planning professionals?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 more than 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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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 - 26min - 226 - Ep221: Your 40-minute guide to the rewritten National Planning Policy Framework
In this episode, we’ll unsurprisingly be discussing last week’s publication of the final version of the new and heavily rewritten National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including:
The transitional arrangements for local authorities;New requirements for densification of development;Significant changes to the long-established presumption in favour of sustainable development;And notable revisions to the heritage impact test and policies on green belt, decision-making, local plan-making and strategic planning.We’ll also be rounding up the other key non-NPPF news from the past week to make sure you’re fully informed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
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 more than 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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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 - 39min - 225 - Ep220: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
This month, we’ll be discussing:
How the refusal of an 800-home mixed-use scheme highlights how specific “footnote 9” policies have to be met when an area is subject to the National Planning Policy Framework’s “tilted balance”.The importance of unmet need as a consideration in an inspector’s decision to allow a proposal for a very large employment development on a greenfield site in the West Midlands.How a key court ruling clarifies the lawfulness of planning officers sharing draft committee reports with applicants before meetings. The final three decisions on nationally important solar farms by former energy secretary Ed Miliband.How inspectors are dealing with a London borough’s approach to air-conditioning units and its “cooling hierarchy” policy.More information on all these cases can be found in the August edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 - 26min - 224 - Ep219: A 15-minute first-take briefing on the key changes in the newly updated NPPF
In this special edition, we’ll be giving our first-take briefing on the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including:
The easing of planning rules for development around train stations – how these measures have been relaxed in some ways, but tightened up in others.The dropping of proposals in the draft for tougher affordable housing requirements.Giving councils more leeway to set their own energy-efficiency standards.And increased protections for national parks and landscapes.We'll also be discussing two other big planning announcements from the government this week:
Its response to a consultation on measures seeking to streamline the statutory consultee system – the organisations that have had their statutory consultee status removed, and those that have retained it.And the long-awaited results of the delayed housing delivery test, including which councils are facing its most severe penalty.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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Thu, 20 Aug 2026 - 26min - 223 - Ep218: Why a judge criticised planning officers when quashing consent for Tottenham Hotspur green belt training ground
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The High Court quashing a council’s consent for a Premier League football club’s green belt training ground following a “serious” failure by planning officers to disclose background papers on the environmental impacts.A series of decisions by planning minister Matthew Pennycook, including the overturning of a council’s approval of plans for a mixed-use scheme comprising 3,500 homes and an 8,000-seat stadium due to health risks.The government relaxing height limits on solar panels that can be installed without a planning application.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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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 - 23min - 222 - Ep217: Why the government is telling inspectors to relax their viability assessment of local plans, plus other key news from last week
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
What the return of Angela Rayner and the retention of Matthew Pennycook, as housing secretary and planning minister, respectively, means for the planning sector;And why Pennycook’s latest ministerial letter to PINS could offer a lifeline for some local plan examinations.More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Wed, 05 Aug 2026 - 20min - 221 - Ep216: Andy Burnham’s new-look housing ministry, plus the key policies in the new draft London Plan
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
A series of appointments at the housing ministry as part of the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first cabinet reshuffle – with some familiar faces returning and continuing at the departments; The publication of the new draft London Plan - what are the key new policies?;And the latest letter from the planning minister to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) on local plan examinations that advises inspectors how they should assess site viability and deliverability.More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Wed, 29 Jul 2026 - 25min - 220 - Ep215: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
This month, we’ll be discussing:
How inspectors are assessing data centre need and weighing up landscape impacts; A retirement scheme permitted on green belt despite not meeting the 'golden rules' in national policy;A court ruling that considered when public consultations should be reopened if a planning application is resubmitted; The planning issues that are being thrown up by the spectacular growth in padel courts.More information on all these cases can be found in the July edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Fri, 24 Jul 2026 - 24min - 219 - Ep214: The key planning tasks facing the new Prime Minister, plus the latest on the new NPPF and application fees
The award-winning Planning team extracts the latest key planning news from the blizzard of new information in Room 106, the vault where all new planning information is gathered.
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The arrival of a new prime minister. What are the key planning tasks in Andy Burnham’s in-tray? And what has he said about planning since he became Labour Party at the end of last week?What’s happening with the much-anticipated new version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)?The government confirming national planning fee rates that seek to meet 90 per cent of the costs of processing applicationsKey planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, 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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Wed, 22 Jul 2026 - 30min - 218 - Ep213: Why the new 250-word limit for written appeal forms has sparked consternation
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining:
Why many practitioners are up in arms about the new 250-word limit for written appeal forms.How a £37k compensation award for a female planning officer reminds the sector to be vigilant about unequal pay.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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Wed, 15 Jul 2026 - 18min - 217 - Ep212: The key takeaways for planners from Burnham's first big speech as a potential Prime Minister
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The key planning takeaways from the first big speech by the likely Prime Minister-elect Andy Burnham;The planning minister making a last-minute intervention in the examination of the City of London Corporation’s emerging local plan over its potential heritage impacts;And three councils launching a legal challenge against the reduced affordable housing requirement in the mayor of London’s home-delivery stimulus package.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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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 - 20min - 216 - Ep211: What the relentless rise of councils under no overall control means for planners
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be casting a spotlight on:
The dramatic rise in the number of councils under no overall political control – what does this mean for planning in those areas and how do you keep it moving?Why a judge blocking a council from submitting its local plan for examination has prompted fears of wider plan-making delaysKey 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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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 - 23min - 215 - Ep210: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
This month, we’ll be discussing:
An example of a proposal for a solar farm being refused on landscape grounds, bucking the trend for many such schemes being approved on the grounds of their benefits; Paragraph 14 of the National Planning Policy Framework being triggered and used successfully to fend off a housing proposal;A legal challenge to consent for the redevelopment of the Museum of London site, where the City of London Corporation was both applicant and planning authority; A petition against a mixed-use scheme proposed in Wandsworth signed by celebrities including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Felicity Kendal, Anthea Turner and Harry Hill.More information on all these cases can be found in the June edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Fri, 26 Jun 2026 - 19min - 214 - Ep209: Starmer resigns with Burnham poised to replace him; plus nine councils placed in planning ‘special measures’
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The resignation of the Prime Minister, with new MP and former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham poised to take over – how has the sector reacted and what might this mean for planning and development?Planning minister Matthew Pennycook placing nine councils in special measures for poor-quality decision-making on major planning applications – the first such designations made under the Labour administration;And a “shocked” civic society accusing a city council of making AI-generated errors in a planning application heritage statement.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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Wed, 24 Jun 2026 - 21min - 213 - Ep208: The implications of the scaling back of planning committee decision-making
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be taking a close look at two of the biggest current changes to the planning system under the Labour government:
Firstly, the scaling back of planning committee decision-making – how are councils dealing with revisions that seek to allow more planning applications to be decided by officers, rather than elected members? And secondly, the new system of local plan making – how some authorities are intending to hit this year’s deadline for submitting plans under the current system, but why others have decided not to do so.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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Wed, 17 Jun 2026 - 24min - 212 - Lord Heseltine: "You’re just playing in toy town”
Lord Heseltine tells the story of the birth of the European Space Agency. Why post-Apollo, when the US was spending £1.2 billion a year on space, the whole of Europe was spending just £200 million. Why the birth of ESA was driven by the self-interest of three major countries. Why the US general with a $29 billion budget for the Star Wars project wanted to invest in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Why, the idea that Britain could compete alone with the technologies that were accumulated and available to the American capitalist system was “simply laughable”. Why “being European is not selling out British interests”. And why Margaret Thatcher told him: “If you want to get on and put your budget into this, you can, but you're not getting any of mine."
Join Alice and Lord Heseltine as they pick apart the negotiating contrivances and the wheeling and dealing to circumnavigate “turkeys not voting for Christmas” that ultimately put European space on the map.
Contributors:
Alice Bunn, President of UKspace
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Lord Heseltine, Member of the House of Lords
Key topics covered:
Creation of the European Space Agency (ESA)US "Star Wars" program and brain drainGeopolitical case for European R&D collaborationImpact of Brexit on science and technologyHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 - 15min - 211 - Ep207: Why a council wants to withdraw from the new towns programme and how the PM has pushed back against it
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
A council shortlisted in the government’s new towns programme announcing that it has withdrawn from the process, following a change in political control at the local elections – prompting a response from the Prime Minister;A High Court judge blocking a council from submitting its local plan for examination pending the outcome of a legal challenge;An employment tribunal awarding a planning officer £37k for being paid less than her male predecessor; And the latest on the government’s proposed changes to planning committee decision-making.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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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 - 22min - 210 - Ep206: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
The latest edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions, in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles Planning’s long-running Casebook section.
This month, we’ll be discussing:
A minister refusing a 750-home scheme despite the site being found to be grey belt, as its location would lead to high car-dependency and would therefore be "inappropriate" green belt development; The energy secretary's approval of a development consent order for what would be one of the UK's largest solar farms, prompting legal action from a Reform-run local authority;The High Court quashing a housing approval due to the “apparent bias” of a planning committee member who was “friendly” with one of the applicants;The challenges facing older people's housing schemes that go to appeal; And why an inspector decided not to grant a lawful development certificate for a shipping container in a garden in Surrey, having considered whether or not it should be considered a building.More information on all these cases can be found in the May edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Fri, 05 Jun 2026 - 25min - 209 - Ep205: How Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister would impact planning
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
Amid fevered speculation about a possible Labour Party leadership contest, what an Andy Burnham premiership would mean for planning and development;And how a Court of Appeal ruling reminds planners to think carefully before taking enforcement action.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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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 - 17min - 208 - Ep204: The planning highlights from the UKREiiF property conference
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The planning news that emerged from the UK’s biggest property conference, including important legislation and policy updates from the planning minister and the housing secretary; A volume housebuilder reacting with anger to an appeal decision and threatening legal action after its 867-home redevelopment plan was refused by an inspector;And a council blaming the government’s “muddy-thinking meddling” and “contradictory commands” for its decision to scrap its emerging local plan.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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Thu, 28 May 2026 - 25min - 207 - Ep203: How far the government has got in recruiting its 1,400 promised new planners
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing Planning’s investigation into the Labour government’s much-trumpeted promise to recruit 1,400 extra planning officers for councils before the end of the current parliament. We’ll be examining:
What was promised; Progress to date and how likely the pledge is to be delivered;And the impact it could have on under-resourced council planning teams.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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Thu, 21 May 2026 - 27min - 206 - Ep202: What the local election results mean for planning and development
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The local elections – the areas where the Reform UK and Green advance, and changes in council control, will have the greatest impact on planning and development.The High Court sentencing a homeowner to six months in prison for ignoring a planning injunction prohibiting an unauthorised house extension.The Court of Appeal finding apparent bias by a council planning director in revoking a lawful development certificate, in a case described by the judge as “most unusual”.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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Wed, 13 May 2026 - 20min - 205 - Ep201: The profits, turnover and margins of the UK's biggest planning consultancies
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing Planning’s exclusive and first-ever examination of the profits, turnover and margins of the UK’s biggest planning consultancies, based on their financial accounts filed with Companies House. We talk about:
The highest-earning firms; The most profitable consultancies and those with the biggest losses; Those with the highest and lowest operating profit margins;And we’ll be getting thoughts from consultants who feature in the survey on all of these matters.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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Thu, 07 May 2026 - 18min - 204 - Ep200: The types of development that will and won't be exempt from biodiversity net gain requirements
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The government confirming the kinds of development that will and won’t be exempt from the biodiversity net gain requirement – and announcing a further proposed opt-out.Fresh guidance for councils on how they should consult on and publicise their draft strategies under the impending new system for producing local plans.A Court of Appeal ruling that clarifies the scope of local authorities’ powers to refuse to determine planning applications for a site if an enforcement notice is already in force for the land.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, 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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Thu, 30 Apr 2026 - 22min - 203 - Ep199: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the ninth edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar who compiles Planning's long-running Casebook section.
This month, we will be discussing:
A secretary of state decision that involved the use of a very rare direction allowing ministers to block the publication of specific evidence in a planning inquiry; How a housing scheme achieved consent in the setting of a World Heritage Site; A High Court ruling on the use of section 73 applications to modify affordable housing contributions;The difficulties facing local planning authorities defending new home appeals when they lack a five year housing land supply;And a planning inspector blocking a council's bid to take enforcement action against an unlawful mural of Mary Poppins.More information on all these cases can be found in the April edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Tue, 28 Apr 2026 - 20min - 202 - Ep198: Why councillor criticism of planning officers in committee meetings appears to be on the rise
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be taking a close look at two issues relating to planning committees that we recently covered in-depth on Planning Resource. We’ll be discussing:
Why councillor criticism of planning officers in committee meetings appears to be on the rise.Government proposals to delegate more planning decisions to officers to determine, rather than elected members.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, 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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Wed, 22 Apr 2026 - 21min - 201 - Ep197: Inspector tells developer to pay council’s costs for pulling out of green belt housing appeal at ‘extremely late stage’
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
A planning inspector ordering a developer to pay a Surrey council’s full costs after pulling out of a 190-home green belt appeal at “an extremely late stage”.A minister approving a land promoter’s 1,700-home scheme on unallocated farmland despite conflict with a local plan.A Court of Appeal ruling that clarifies appeals procedure in planning enforcement cases.New regulations that revise rules around neighbourhood plans, including a new requirement for such plans not to prevent housebuilding in the wider local plan area.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, 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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Thu, 16 Apr 2026 - 22min - 200 - Ep196: The great CIL repayment - how much could be refunded to developers?
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
Claims that recent rulings made by the government’s Valuation Office Agency could require as many as four out of every ten councils that charge the community infrastructure levy (CIL) to make substantial repayments to developers.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, 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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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 - 22min - 199 - Ep195: Member slams planning officers over grey belt recommendations, a ministerial local plan intervention and final new towns shortlist revealed
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The seven new towns to be pursued by the government, plus the five locations from its adviser’s original list that have been dropped.The government making a series of important policy announcements in relation to planning application fee rises, a new Land Use Framework and changes to planning committees, the ministerial calling-in of applications process and the local authority planning performance regime.A Home Counties council's defiance of the housing minister after he ordered it to allocate more green belt sites for development in its draft local plan.And a planning committee member telling officers they should be ashamed of themselves for recommending grey belt applications for approval.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 - 28min - 198 - Will Whitehorn: “We have to industrialise in space. It is an imperative”
How do we solve population pressure and climate crisis in space? How has GPS allowed us to provide 12% more food globally? How did the UK become a global leader in small satellite manufacture after the British Government said, “there’s no future for the UK satellite industry”? How did Elon Musk turn reusable rockets from science fiction to science fact in less than 20 years? What else are “Elon and Jeff” going to allow us to do? And why is SpaceX still “the elephant in the room”?
Join Alice as she talks to Will Whitehorn, chair of giant space tech investor Seraphim and former president of Virgin Galactic, and they discuss the implications of “The Elon Musk show” and its legacy, “the beginnings of a competitive space industry of scale”.
Contributors:
Alice Bunn, President of UKspace
Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn
Will Whitehorn OBE, Seraphim Space Investment Trust
Key topics covered:
UK satellite manufactureUK universitiesSpaceX valuationReuseable rocketsAgricultural managementPopulation pressureClimate crisisSolar powerData centres in spaceIndustrialising in spaceHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 - 26min - 197 - Space-Comm Expo: Jamming, spoofing, FOMO and farming
What did the Space-Comm Expo conference and exhibition tell us about connecting space and wider business? How does this manifest as tech connectivity in telecoms and why do farmers care about that? What did we learn about the benefits of extreme cold in manufacturing laboratories and why do pharmas care about that? How vulnerable are global logistics to the spoofing of navigation signals? And why is the UK government centralising space strategy in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology?
Join Alice and Jonners as they reflect on the UK space sector’s largest trade event and the “energy, diversity and …sheer scope of what this industry has to offer”.
Contributors:
Alice Bunn, President of UKspace
Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn
Jonathan Daves, The Karman Line
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Key topics covered:
Space-Comm Expo, London, March 2026
Conference overview
Sector integration
Insurance
Customer utility
Government role
Future outlook
Technological advancements
· Telecoms
· Manufacturing
Defence and security
· Satellite capabilities
· Current threats
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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 - 20min - 196 - Ep194: The biggest employers of female planners and why there is pressure for the new NPPF to address women’s safety
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
The planning consultancies that employ the most female planners – identifying the top companies and looking at the overall picture in the sector. Why MPs and campaigners are unhappy that the new draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) fails to address women’s safety.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 - 23min - 195 - Ep193: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the eighth edition of our monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar who compiles Planning'slong-running Casebook section.
This month, we will be discussing:
The issues raised by the secretary of state approval of controversial plans to build a new Chinese Embassy in central London; Why an inspector endorsed a council’s own approach to assessing its five-year housing land supply rather than the usual government method; The significance of a High Court ruling that provides clarity on how decision-makers should assess greenhouse gas emissions;And how inspectors and ministers are considering the agent of change principle.More information on all these cases can be found in the February edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 - 25min - 194 - Ep192: What the government has revealed about how the new local plan system will work
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
New regulations and guidance from the housing ministry to pave the way for impending changes to the local plan-making system, including almost 40 local authorities being ordered to commence plan-making under the new system by the end of June.Planning inspectors recommending that a council withdraws its draft local plan from examination following “significant soundness concerns”.The Planning Portal accusing a start-up rival of making misleading claims, sparking legal threats.A round-up of the planning news from the annual MIPIM property conference.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 18 Mar 2026 - 27min - 193 - Ep191: How the growth in AI objection letters is impacting planners
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing the sharp rise in planning objections generated by artificial intelligence (AI), including:
Our exclusive survey results on the impact it is having on planning decision-making and council resources. The legal issues that are raised.How local authorities are responding to the problem.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 - 27min - 192 - Ep190: Why a council is set to charge for invalid planning applications plus PINS issues updated AI guidance
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
New guidance from the Planning Inspectorate on artificial intelligence (AI), warning that “improper use” of the technology could result in cost awards against appeal parties, plus other updates on how planners are using AI.A council announcing that it is considering charging developers and householders if they submit invalid planning applications, to reflect the “true cost” of processing the paperwork.Another local authority saying it will pursue “hundreds of thousands of pounds” in costs after a developer pulled out part way through a 190-home appeal.And the significance of a High Court ruling that upholds a planning inspector’s decision to back a developer’s bid to drop an affordable housing condition via a section 73 application.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 - 20min - 191 - Why the business of space is everyone’s business
As of 2026, the UK space industry is a significant and strategic driver of the national economy, contributing over £19 billion in revenue and supporting tens of thousands of high-skilled jobs. Satellite-based services and data underpin roughly 18% of UK GDP, equivalent to approximately £454 billion of the wider economy. And the sector is growing exponentially.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. For the space industry to fully realise its potential it needs more of the right people to understand what’s happening and get involved. People like policy makers, investors, regulators, planners, communicators, lawyers and consultants.
Dr Alice Bunn, the president of UK Space, and her panel of guests, Sam Alden co-CEO of Space Solar, Nick Shave managing director of Astroscale and Anushka Sharma founder of Naaut, discuss the surprising, awe inspiring business of space and make the compelling case for why more companies and investors should get involved.
Contributors:
Host:
Alice Bunn, President of UKspace
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Guests:
Nick Shave, Managing Director of Astroscale
Astroscale: Overview | LinkedIn
Sam Adlen, CEO of Space Solar
Space Solar: Overview | LinkedIn
Anushka Sharma, founder of Naaut
Key topics covered:
Impact of Space on Everyday Life
Practical ApplicationsEnvironmental MonitoringGlobal SecuritySustainability and Innovation in Orbit
Space DebrisManufacturing in MicrogravitySpace-Based Solar PowerEconomic and Regulatory Landscape
Cost ReductionInvestment and FinanceRegulation and PolicyThe Future of Space Exploration
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Tue, 03 Mar 2026 - 43min - 190 - Ep189: How a court ruling impacts national grey belt rules, plus the lowdown on the government's new pollution mitigation scheme
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
How an important High Court ruling sets a precedent for planners applying the government’s grey belt test.What the rollout of a Whitehall scheme allowing developers to pay to mitigate pollution means for you.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 - 22min - 189 - Ep188: Government reveals proposed geography of new strategic planning system and makes two local plan interventions
In this episode, we’ll be discussing:
The government revealing the geography of England’s impending strategic planning system.The approval of controversial redevelopment of London’s Liverpool Street train station. The High Court clarifying national policy on grey belt land in a judgment upholding an inspector’s consent for a motorway services scheme. The housing minister making two interventions in the preparation of emerging local plans over the past fortnight.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 18 Feb 2026 - 25min - 188 - Ep187: Six key factors for inspectors determining brownfield appeals in the green belt
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing a recent investigation by Planning into how planning inspectors are responding to a recent national policy change that eases rules around development on brownfield land in the green belt. In particular, it looks at the six most important considerations for inspectors when determining appeals for such proposals.
Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 11 Feb 2026 - 25min - 187 - Ep186: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the seventh edition of our new monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar who compiles Planning's long-running Casebook section.
This month, we will be discussing:
How exceptional circumstances were found for a 112-home development in a national landscape in Surrey; A controversial inspector's decision that found that a site in the West Midlands could not be considered grey belt because of the presence of a nearby listed church - and how the government has responded; A Hich Court ruling that provides clarity on how planners should assess previously-developed land in the green beltAnd how inspectors are approaching proposals for huge film studios on green belt.More information on all these cases can be found in the November, December and January editions of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag
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Mon, 09 Feb 2026 - 23min - 186 - Ep185: Why two landowners have been handed prison sentences for breaking planning laws
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 - 20min - 185 - Ep184: Your 30-minute guide to the most significant planning policy and legal changes in the next six months
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 28 Jan 2026 - 30min - 184 - Ep183: Two councils’ planning services hit by cyber-attacks, plus Pennycook’s affordable housing intervention
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 21 Jan 2026 - 17min - 183 - Ep182: The key takeaways from the latest in-depth report on the planning consultancy market
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 14 Jan 2026 - 18min - 182 - Ep181: Your 40-minute guide to the new draft NPPF
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Thu, 08 Jan 2026 - 42min - 181 - Ep180: A first-take overview of the new NPPF, plus local plans in peril
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 - 31min - 180 - Ep179: Why the government’s drive to digitise the planning system is yet to make a meaningful impact on services
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 10 Dec 2025 - 29min - 179 - Ep178: The key planning takeaways from the Budget and the sudden scrapping of a legal duty for local plan-makers
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 03 Dec 2025 - 24min - 178 - Ep177: Reed announces plans to ease new home consents around train stations and changes to application call-in process
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - 19min - 177 - Ep176: What non-statutory national development management policies would mean for planners
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.
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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 33min - 176 - Ep175: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the sixth edition of our new monthly series examining the key recent appeal and court decisions in which we speak to technical editor David Dewar who compiles Planning'slong-running Casebook section.
This month, we will be discussing:
The energy secretary's consent for a large off-shore wind farm in the Irish Sea that took account of the risk of so-called "wake effects"; A planning inspector allowing 39 homes on green belt land on the basis that it would enable the refurbishment of a listed building; The risk of costs being awarded against councils in appeal cases where they are deemed to have acted unreasonably; The High Court blocking a council's attempt to enforce affordable housing provision after the site of a permitted development is sold to a new owner.More information on all these cases can be found in the October 2025 edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 50 years.
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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 18min - 175 - Ep174: Local government reorganisation in Surrey and a city council goes to court to claim £1m in unpaid developer contributions
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
A significant announcement on local government reorganisation and what it could mean for planning.A city council taking legal action against three developers whom it says collectively owe it almost £1 million in unpaid section 106 contributions.The launch of a £10 million government tender for the creation of a new “planning tool” to enable “AI-augmented decision-making for planning applications”.Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years.
Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @PlanningMag
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Wed, 12 Nov 2025 - 19min - 174 - Ep173: England's biggest and busiest local planning authorities
In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be discussing an exclusive Planning report into England’s 30 biggest and busiest local planning authorities — who are these councils and what are the key findings into their staffing and activity levels?
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.
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Thu, 06 Nov 2025 - 25min - 173 - Ep172: An important Supreme Court ruling on nutrient neutrality and 'emergency' planning measures to boost London housebuilding
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
The Supreme Court overturning a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld the refusal on nutrient pollution grounds of a developer’s bid to discharge conditions relating to a 650-home scheme.The housing ministry and the mayor of London announcing an “emergency” package of measures aiming to boost housebuilding in the capital that includes a relaxation of affordable housing requirements.A report from the Parliamentary watchdog on the developer contribution system that warns ministers about a “drought of planners in local authorities”.Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.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.
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Wed, 29 Oct 2025 - 21min - 172 - Ep171: How Pennycook has advised inspectors to change their approach to local plan examinations plus the latest planning bill tweaks
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
An important letter from housing minister Matthew Pennycook to the Planning Inspectorate in which he gives advice to inspectors examining local plans with a particular focus on green belt reviews.The government publishing a series of amendments to its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill. And the announcement of a deal between two government departments, two statutory consultees and a water company that seeks to enable the delivery of 21,000 new homes.Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 - 21min - 171 - Ep170: An important court ruling on green belt openness and our housing delivery test predictions
In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be we’ll be taking a look at:
How a court ruling confirms the difficulty for councils in using green belt openness as a way to resist development.And our exclusive research on the local authorities we predict will have weakened planning protections after the next housing delivery test results.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.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 - 20min - 170 - Ep169: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the fifth 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 month, we will be discussing:
How inspectors are assessing industrial schemes and the importance of local need.An appeal case that shows how inspectors are balancing requirements for accessibility against local housing need. Growing numbers of appeals over proposals for battery storage schemes and the substantial weight that inspectors are placing on their benefits.The High Court upholding a ministerial consent for new homes in a national landscape dismissing a challenge that claimed it contravened a new legal duty.More information on all these cases can be found in the October 2025 edition of Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 50 years.
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Wed, 08 Oct 2025 - 19min - 169 - Ep168: The planning highlights from the Labour Party Conference, plus a joint local plan fails a legal duty
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
The planning highlights from last week’s Labour Party Conference.A government inspector announcing that a joint local plan in a key growth area of the country has failed a legal duty.And three big planning decisions by the housing minister.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 08 Oct 2025 - 28min - 168 - Ep167: Ministers back the initial recommendations of the New Towns Taskforce, plus the consultancies that allow the most home working
In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at:
The government responding to the initial findings of its New Towns Taskforce, which has called for 12 locations to be taken forward.And discussing our exclusive survey on the planning consultancies that allow the most working from home.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 - 22min - 167 - Ep166: Your six-minute guide to the government’s new flood risk planning guidance, plus Labour’s first local plan intervention
The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals.
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
The Labour government's first local plan intervention.Long-awaited new national planning guidance on the flood risk sequential test. And the first planning pronouncements by the new housing secretary.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 - 19min - 166 - Ep165: The most important planning policy and legislation changes to expect in the next six months
The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals.
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 the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, national development management policies and changes to the plan-making system
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.
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Wed, 17 Sep 2025 - 31min - 165 - Ep164: The new housing secretary's planning track record and highlights from the Reform UK conference
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you.
In this edition, we’ll be discussing:
The surprise resignation of Angela Rayner as housing secretary last week and the planning track record of her replacement.The planning news from the Reform UK Conference this weekend.And a judge confirming a planning inspector’s finding that green belt openness "cannot be compromised" by "not inappropriate" development.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 - 20min - 164 - Ep163: The government's ongoing planning battle with a local authority over asylum-seeker hotels
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you.
This week, we’re going to take a closer look at the latest twist in the ongoing legal and planning battle between the government and an Essex council over the use of a hotel to house asylum seekers, which on Friday saw the Court of Appeal reverse a High Court injunction in an unusually scathing ruling. We'll also discuss:
Reports that the government is considering a new planning bill;And the High Court quashing a council’s consent for a self-build home over a planning officer's “error of law”.In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
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Wed, 03 Sep 2025 - 22min - 163 - Ep162: Is a council’s bid to reclassify villages as towns to protect them from green belt development likely to be effective?
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you.
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing whether a council’s bold bid to reclassify several villages as towns in order to protect them from green belt development is likely to be effective.
We'll also examine the government’s latest amendments to the controversial nature recovery measures in its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
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Thu, 28 Aug 2025 - 18min - 162 - Ep161: Why Rayner has blocked a council’s bid to allocate a site for 1,250 homes in its emerging local plan
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you.
This week, we’re going to take a closer look at:
The housing secretary Angela Rayner blocking a council’s bid to allocate a site in a special protection area for up to 1,250 homes in its emerging local planA Labour Party councillor losing the party whip after being caught making anonymous online posts defending the council’s proposed release of green belt sites in its local planAnd the High Court ordering a campaigner to pay £85,000 and a council £9,000 in costs after losing their joint legal battle over a decision to register a set of playing fields as a village green.In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
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Wed, 20 Aug 2025 - 17min - 161 - Ep160: Rayner demands answers from Chinese embassy over redaction of new building plans and why a council has urged applicants to avoid ‘chasing’ its planning team
Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you.
This week, we’re going to take a closer look at:
• The housing secretary Angela Rayner giving the Chinese embassy two weeks to “comprehensively” explain why new building plans have been redacted
• A planning inspector concluding that a council’s net zero requirement in a 2,200-home garden village plan is “consistent with national policy” more than two years after previous inspectors claimed that the strategy’s approach conflicted with a written ministerial statement. More
• A local authority urging applicants to avoid “chasing” its planning team for updates as part of an action plan to tackle a 1,700-case backlog
• And an inspector allowing an appeal over plans for an extension to a weapons factory that a council refused against officer advice due to “community cohesion” concerns
In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
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Wed, 13 Aug 2025 - 22min - 160 - Ep159: When England’s busiest local planning authorities say they will hit key plan-making milestones
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing our exclusive report, which reveals when England’s busiest local authorities say they will hit key local plan preparation milestones, and when peaks and troughs in plan-making activity are predicted to occur.
We’ll also examine how the Labour Party has performed against its own planning objectives in its first year in office.
In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are 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
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Thu, 07 Aug 2025 - 22min - 159 - Ep158: The key planning takeaways from the planning minister's latest select committee appearances
In this episode we explore:
The planning minister Matthew Pennycook appearing before two Parliamentary select committees - we discuss the planning highlights, including key announcements about developer contributions, affordable homes, viability guidance and new towns; The news that a promised government consultation on national development management policies will be delayed until later this year; A council ruling out green belt release in its draft local plan, despite meeting just over half of its local housing need.In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are 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.
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Wed, 30 Jul 2025 - 21min - 158 - Ep157: The highest-rated planning barristers and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest planning teams
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing our annual Planning Law Survey, which takes an in-depth and exclusive look at the most highly rated planning barristers, law firms and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest and fastest-growing planning teams.
In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are 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.
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Wed, 23 Jul 2025 - 21min - 157 - Ep156: Why a planning committee was found to be ‘severely affecting’ a council’s reputation, plus the devolution bill highlights
In this episode we explore:
The key planning takeaways from the government’s English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, which was published last week.A review by a planning advisory body that found that a council’s planning committee is perceived to be "operating with undue influence" amid probity "suspicions".A local authority that has proposed redefining four villages as towns to protect them from the new grey belt designation in national planning policy.In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are 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.
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Thu, 17 Jul 2025 - 21min - 156 - Ep155: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the fourth 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 show how a future drop in housing land supply can be an important material consideration for inspectors even if the current position is adequate and protected for the near future, while the other demonstrates that neighbourhood plans still have teeth. Ministerial decisions on data centre proposals in the green belt and how it reflects changing national planning policy on green belt.A Court of Appeal judgment that backed an inspector's consideration of the so-called ‘downstream’ impacts of future carbon emissions when allowing an oil drilling project.More information on all these cases can be found in the July 2025 edition of monthly Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 - 19min - 155 - Ep154: How a lack of sewage treatment capacity is blocking applications for new homes across England
In this Deep Dive edition, we discuss how rising public concern about sewage pollution in rivers, plus inadequate levels of investment in water treatment capacity, is leading to thousands of new homes across England being blocked or postponed.
Planning editor Richard Garlick and Planning special correspondent Joey Gardiner discuss Joey’s investigation into the issue, published by Planning last week.
It shows how:
water companies are recommending that many applications for homes are refused, or conditions blocking occupation applied, because of water treatment capacity issuesin one area in which 300,000 homes are needed by 2030, the planned investment in water treatment capacity improvements is only adequate for 175,000, not all of them in places where the planning system says homes are neededin the same area, there is a particular shortage of capacity in large towns and cities where growth would normally be focussedsimilar issues are affecting housebuilding in other parts of England, with at least one council imposing conditions restricting occupation without having been asked to do so by the local water company, and having had its approach endorsed at appealIn addition, we’ll 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 the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 09 Jul 2025 - 27min - 154 - Ep153: The Planning Inspectorate expanding the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to speed up decisions
This week, we will be discussing:
The Planning Inspectorate announcing an expansion of the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to far more cases in an effort to speed up decisions.The government’s ten-year infrastructure strategy and what it means for planners.The government’s withdrawal of funding for neighbourhood planning support services.In addition, we’ll 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 the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 02 Jul 2025 - 20min - 153 - Ep152: The implications of the latest government proposals to increase developer build-out rates
In this Deep Dive edition, we discuss:
Government proposals to boost developers’ build-out rates for consented housing sitesThe planning consultancies that employ the most female plannersIn addition, we’ll 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 the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 25 Jun 2025 - 30min - 152 - Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure
This week, we discuss:
A local authority threatening legal action and blasting a planning inspector after their local plan was found to have failed the legal duty to cooperate. The housing ministry removing three councils from planning performance special measures. The key takeaways for planners from the government’s spending review. Keir Starmer announcing the launch of an AI tool, which promises to cut planning officers’ time.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Thu, 19 Jun 2025 - 23min - 151 - Ep150: What the growth of the logistics sector means for planners
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:
The growth of logistics developments – how the planning system is treating these kinds of schemes and the issues they present for planning professionals.Why commercial-to-residential permitted development applications have hit a record high.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 more than 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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Wed, 11 Jun 2025 - 21min - 150 - Ep149: Your 22-minute guide to the latest planning blitz on build-out rates, biodiversity net gain and decision-making
This week, we will be discussing a spate of big planning announcements from the government. We will be focusing on the proposed measures to:
Increase developer’s build-out rates for permitted sites.Streamline planning committee decision-making, and toughen up one of the criteria for planning performance ‘special measures’ designation.Support smaller builders, including via significant revisions to the biodiversity net gain system.We’ll also be highlighting some of the key reaction to the proposals.
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 more than 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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Wed, 04 Jun 2025 - 25min - 149 - Ep148: How Reform councils and mayors will use their planning powers
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:
How councils and mayors that are now controlled by the Reform party will use their planning powers.What a recent Court of Appeal ruling means for the timing of when local authorities have to publish planning gain legal agreements.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Fri, 30 May 2025 - 20min - 148 - Ep147: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the third 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 considers how the new ‘golden rules’ for residential development on green belt apply to residential institutions in the C2 use class, while the other is a secretary of state decision on a development consent order (DCO) seeking the expansion of a regional airport. How ministers are placing increasing weight on economic growth when considering DCOs for major infrastructure projects.A High Court judgment that ruled that an animal research and medical facility could be considered a commercial use in the Class E use class and therefore eligible to be converted to housing under permitted development rights.More information on all these cases can be found in the April 2025 edition of Monthly Casebook on Planning Resource.
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 more than 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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Thu, 29 May 2025 - 25min - 147 - Ep146: The lowdown on two important ‘grey belt’ decisions from the secretary of state and a High Court judge
This week, we will be discussing:
The High Court quashing an inspector’s rejection of 120 green belt homes because he failed to consider whether the scheme met the new ‘golden rules’ for green belt housebuilding.A minister allowing plans for a huge green belt data centre after finding that the proposal meets the new ‘grey belt’ and ‘inappropriate development’ tests in national planning policy.The launching of the first consultation on the next version of London’s overarching spatial strategy, the London Plan, which mayor Sadiq Khan marked by announcing a dramatic change in approach to development on the capital’s green belt.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 21 May 2025 - 22min - 146 - Ep145: The six key lessons from planning inspectors on grey belt appeal decisions
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining the six key lessons to be learned from planning inspectors about the dozens of appeal decisions that have been issued so far where the government’s new grey belt national policy is a key factor. We'll also highlight the two secretary of state decisions where the new grey belt policy test has been applied and explain what the policy is and how the tests work.
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 more than 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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Wed, 14 May 2025 - 31min - 145 - Ep144: How the government is seeking to change the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and a row over a local plan examination
This week, we will be discussing:
The government’s amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.Estimates of the bill's economic impact and concerns about its proposed changes to environmental rules.In addition, we will examine:
Why a planning inspector has found that a council’s local plan has failed the legal duty to cooperate, and why the authority has reacted with anger.A High Court ruling upholding a consent for 133 homes that clarifies when a planning application is formally ‘made’.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 more than 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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Thu, 08 May 2025 - 29min - 144 - Ep143: The places where the local elections are most likely to impact planning and development
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be previewing the local and mayoral elections taking place later this week.
We will be discussing:
Where they are happening.What the results are expected to show at a national level.What this is likely to mean for planning and development at a local level.We will also highlight the key battlegrounds that are likely to have the greatest impact on planning and development.
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 more than 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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Wed, 30 Apr 2025 - 33min - 143 - Ep142: The councils with the most grey belt land in England
This week, we will be:
Revealing the councils with the most grey belt land in England.Discussing the latest developments around how councils are reacting to the new grey belt national policy.In addition, we will examine:
How two local authorities have avoided the housing delivery test’s most severe penalty after persuading central government to ‘recalculate’ their score. The first court ruling to outline the scope of a new “protected landscapes” legal duty.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 23 Apr 2025 - 22min - 142 - Ep141: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
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 national policy and the other a secretary of state decision on plans for a motorway service station on green belt. How new national planning policy on green belt is prompting inspectors to consider whether some green belt sites prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another and therefore can be considered ‘grey belt’.A Court of Appeal decision that postponed an enforcement case concerning the demolition of ‘Britain’s wonkiest pub’ until criminal proceedings on the matter have been completed.More information on all these cases can be found in the April edition of Monthly Casebook on Planning Resource.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Mon, 14 Apr 2025 - 27min - 141 - Ep140: Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to national guidance updates
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 Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 - 20min - 140 - Ep139: The planning news from the Spring Statement plus the Planning and Infrastructure Bill's second reading
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 key green belt appeal decision, in which the new grey belt designation in national policy was a central consideration.Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 - 27min - 139 - Ep138: How a council introduced a four-day working week that improved its planning performance
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 the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Thu, 27 Mar 2025 - 16min - 138 - Ep137: Casebook Extra - the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
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:
Two notable green belt appeal decisions, one of which concerns the new grey belt designation in national policy and the other the new test around brownfield development. Appeal decision trends showing how the new national policy on calculating housing need is causing housing land supply positions to worsen in a number of local authorities.A Court of Appeal decision that clarifies how national planning practice guidance carries the same weight as the National Planning Policy Framework.More information on all these cases can be found in the March edition of Monthly Casebook on Planning Resource.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Mon, 24 Mar 2025 - 19min - 137 - Ep136: Your 25-minute guide to the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill
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 restoration fund that developers would contribute to.In addition, we discuss the housing ministry’s simultaneous announcement of changes to the way that statutory consultees are involved in the development management process.
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 the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 19 Mar 2025 - 29min - 136 - Ep135: Why developers are predicting a surge in planning applications this year and how the system will cope
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 rounding up the key planning news from the past week, including the publication of the government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill, 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 the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Thu, 13 Mar 2025 - 26min - 135 - Ep134: Your 20-minute lowdown on the new planning guidance on green belt and other policy areas
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 recovery strategies.In addition, we will be talking about the government announcing that it will take forward key elements of the previous administration’s radical changes to the plan-making system.
We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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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Wed, 05 Mar 2025 - 28min - 134 - Ep133: Are statutory consultees really holding up the planning process and how are ministers likely to address the issue?
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 rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Wed, 26 Feb 2025 - 26min - 133 - Ep132: Where the 100 new town proposals are coming from, plus other key news from the past week
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 be prioritised for attention under the Whitehall-backed New Homes Accelerator scheme, which offers planning support to unblock stalled schemes. What we know about the over £3 million of grants for local councils to bolster planning capacity announced last week.In addition, we discuss the housing secretary quashing a decision by her predecessor, which allowed the expansion of a car park in a national landscape, for failing to apply a new duty to support such protected sites and national parks.
We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 - 25min - 132 - Ep131: How compromised is the planning system by developer influence?
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing whether, in the wake of claims about corruption in planning that have been widely rejected by the sector, the planning system is more compromised by developer influence than practitioners think.
In particular, we'll be examining:
How common are cases of criminal corruption in planning? Why is there a perception that it's a problem? Beyond issues of corruption, are there questions around the relationships between developers and planning decision-makers? How well are such conflicts of interest managed in the planning process?Concerns about councillors working as consultants to the development industry in lobbying or public affairs firms.We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 - 26min - 131 - Ep130: The chancellor's planning announcements aiming to kick-start economic growth
This week, we will be discussing a series of planning announcements made by chancellor Rachel Reeves in an effort to boost economic growth. We're going to focus on:
Her promise of a review of the statutory consultee system to “slash planning system red tape”. Her announcement of changes to the environmental assessment regime.The prime minister's proposal to limit objectors’ chances to overturn major infrastructure decisions in the courts from three to one or two.In addition, we discuss our exclusive revelation that the government has admitted that £100 million of “additional” funding promised to local planning authorities for next year is in fact “not new money”.
We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 - 23min - 130 - Ep129: The NPPF's ‘golden rules’ for developer contributions on green belt, plus the return of strategic planning
In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:
The new National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF) introduction of ‘golden rules’ that apply to developer contributions for development on green belt land, and how the government has softened the rules in the final version compared to the draft.The devolution white paper’s proposals for groups of councils to draw up new sub-regional strategic development plans, and how they would work.We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 - 32min - 129 - Ep128: What the housing secretary revealed about the government’s planning intentions when she was grilled by MPs
In this episode, we discuss:
What the secretary of state for housing, Angela Rayner, said about planning when she appeared before MPs on the housing, communities and local government select committee.A developer winning an appeal against the demolition of its 200-home tower block scheme following a high-profile enforcement case launched by the local authority.The councils that are at risk of planning performance special measures for determining the fewest applications within government time limits.We’ll also be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planningmagazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 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.
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 - 21min
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