Room 106

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 | LinkedInUKspace: Overview | LinkedIn Will Whitehorn OBE, Seraphim Space Investment TrustWill Whitehorn OBE | LinkedInKey topics covered:UK satellite manufactureUK universitiesSpaceX valuationReuseable rocketsAgricultural managementPopulation pressureClimate crisisSolar powerData centres in spaceIndustrialising in space