Room 106

This week, we discuss: The High Court quashing the secretary of state’s controversial permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria; Planning inspectors recommending that a council withdraws its local plan due to its “unwillingness” to release green belt sites to meet housing need;Voters in a town overwhelmingly rejected a neighbourhood plan in a referendum after fears were raised about green belt protection.We also round 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 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.

In this Deep Dive, we discuss: What the proposed cutting of 'beauty' references in the draft NPPF would mean for planners;What the government’s plans to more than double householder application fees might mean for local authorities.PLUS the past fortnight’s other headlines summarised.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.

In this episode, we discuss: Why councils faced with hikes in housing requirements under Labour’s proposed changes to the assessment method are accelerating plan preparation;What we know about the government’s task force to speed up housing delivery;What the fact that only a handful of applications for government biodiversity gain credits have been made tells us about how the system is operating.PLUS the past fortnight’s other headlines summarised.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.

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing the five circumstances that are “exceptional” enough to justify releasing green belt in local plans – including the extent of local need – and why, if Labour’s proposed changes to national policy are carried through, it will become more important for councils to know about them.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.

In this episode, we will be discussing:A local authority revealing an unauthorised £826,000 overspend in its planning budget due to a huge application backlog; How a number of councils halting local plan work due to the new government’s national planning policy changes; Four local authorities issuing a legal threat to the government over the energy secretary’s “error” in approving a huge solar farm. 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.

In this Deep Dive edition, we examine:How and why a unitary authority is making an unusually big investment in its planning service;How the proposed National Planning Policy Framework revisions would change local housing need assessment, and what this might mean for planners.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.

In this episode, we look in more detail at the government's big planning announcements last week. We discuss: The councils that would see their housing need rise most under the government’s proposed new assessment method.The Planning Inspectorate warning the housing minister that his hard line on local plan examination delays will lead to more strategies being either recommended for withdrawal or found unsound.The deputy prime minister Angela Rayner telling councils to rework advanced plans that provide significantly fewer homes than the levels produced by her new local housing need method. Rayner recommitting the government to its 13-week target for ministerial planning decisions. 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.

In this episode, we summarise key changes proposed in the government’s draft revised National Planning Policy Framework, as well as initial reaction from 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 is 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.