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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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Episode Date
Ep179: Why the government’s drive to digitise the planning system is yet to make a meaningful impact on services
Dec 10, 2025
Ep178: The key planning takeaways from the Budget and the sudden scrapping of a legal duty for local plan-makers
Dec 03, 2025
Ep177: Reed announces plans to ease new home consents around train stations and changes to application call-in process
Nov 26, 2025
Ep176: What non-statutory national development management policies would mean for planners
Nov 19, 2025
Ep175: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
Nov 18, 2025
Ep174: Local government reorganisation in Surrey and a city council goes to court to claim £1m in unpaid developer contributions
Nov 12, 2025
Ep173: England's biggest and busiest local planning authorities
Nov 06, 2025
Ep172: An important Supreme Court ruling on nutrient neutrality and 'emergency' planning measures to boost London housebuilding
Oct 29, 2025
Ep171: How Pennycook has advised inspectors to change their approach to local plan examinations plus the latest planning bill tweaks
Oct 22, 2025
Ep170: An important court ruling on green belt openness and our housing delivery test predictions
Oct 16, 2025
Ep169: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
Oct 08, 2025
Ep168: The planning highlights from the Labour Party Conference, plus a joint local plan fails a legal duty
Oct 08, 2025
Ep167: Ministers back the initial recommendations of the New Towns Taskforce, plus the consultancies that allow the most home working
Oct 01, 2025
Ep166: Your six-minute guide to the government’s new flood risk planning guidance, plus Labour’s first local plan intervention
Sep 24, 2025
Ep165: The most important planning policy and legislation changes to expect in the next six months
Sep 17, 2025
Ep164: The new housing secretary's planning track record and highlights from the Reform UK conference
Sep 10, 2025
Ep163: The government's ongoing planning battle with a local authority over asylum-seeker hotels
Sep 03, 2025
Ep162: Is a council’s bid to reclassify villages as towns to protect them from green belt development likely to be effective?
Aug 28, 2025
Ep161: Why Rayner has blocked a council’s bid to allocate a site for 1,250 homes in its emerging local plan
Aug 20, 2025
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
Aug 13, 2025
Ep159: When England’s busiest local planning authorities say they will hit key plan-making milestones
Aug 07, 2025
Ep158: The key planning takeaways from the planning minister's latest select committee appearances
Jul 30, 2025
Ep157: The highest-rated planning barristers and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest planning teams
Jul 23, 2025
Ep156: Why a planning committee was found to be ‘severely affecting’ a council’s reputation, plus the devolution bill highlights
Jul 17, 2025
Ep155: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
Jul 15, 2025
Ep154: How a lack of sewage treatment capacity is blocking applications for new homes across England
Jul 09, 2025
Ep153: The Planning Inspectorate expanding the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to speed up decisions
Jul 02, 2025
Ep152: The implications of the latest government proposals to increase developer build-out rates
Jun 25, 2025
Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure
Jun 19, 2025
Ep150: What the growth of the logistics sector means for planners
Jun 11, 2025
Ep149: Your 22-minute guide to the latest planning blitz on build-out rates, biodiversity net gain and decision-making
Jun 04, 2025
Ep148: How Reform councils and mayors will use their planning powers
May 30, 2025
Ep147: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
May 29, 2025
Ep146: The lowdown on two important ‘grey belt’ decisions from the secretary of state and a High Court judge
May 21, 2025
Ep145: The six key lessons from planning inspectors on grey belt appeal decisions
May 14, 2025
Ep144: How the government is seeking to change the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and a row over a local plan examination
May 08, 2025
Ep143: The places where the local elections are most likely to impact planning and development
Apr 30, 2025
Ep142: The councils with the most grey belt land in England
Apr 23, 2025
Ep141: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
Apr 14, 2025
Ep140: Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to national guidance updates
Apr 09, 2025
Ep139: The planning news from the Spring Statement plus the Planning and Infrastructure Bill's second reading
Apr 02, 2025
Ep138: How a council introduced a four-day working week that improved its planning performance
Mar 27, 2025
Ep137: Casebook Extra - the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
Mar 24, 2025
Ep136: Your 25-minute guide to the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Mar 19, 2025
Ep135: Why developers are predicting a surge in planning applications this year and how the system will cope
Mar 13, 2025
Ep134: Your 20-minute lowdown on the new planning guidance on green belt and other policy areas
Mar 05, 2025
Ep133: Are statutory consultees really holding up the planning process and how are ministers likely to address the issue?
Feb 26, 2025
Ep132: Where the 100 new town proposals are coming from, plus other key news from the past week
Feb 20, 2025
Ep131: How compromised is the planning system by developer influence?
Feb 12, 2025
Ep130: The chancellor's planning announcements aiming to kick-start economic growth
Feb 05, 2025
Ep129: The NPPF's ‘golden rules’ for developer contributions on green belt, plus the return of strategic planning
Jan 30, 2025
Ep128: What the housing secretary revealed about the government’s planning intentions when she was grilled by MPs
Jan 22, 2025
Ep127: The biggest, fastest-growing and highest-earning planning consultancies and the most desirable job skills
Jan 16, 2025
Ep126: What the devolution white paper means for planning, plus the latest housing test delivery results
Jan 08, 2025
Ep125: Your 30-minute guide to the new National Planning Policy Framework
Dec 18, 2024
Ep124: How Angela Rayner wants to shake up planning committee decision-making
Dec 11, 2024
Ep123: What the government's push for more council mergers means for planning teams
Dec 04, 2024
Ep122: What the planning minister revealed in his select committee appearance
Nov 27, 2024
Ep121: England's 30 busiest local planning authorities – their resource and activity levels
Nov 21, 2024
Ep120: The fall-out from the housing secretary's last-minute calling in of plans for an 8,400-home garden village
Nov 13, 2024
Ep119: The challenges facing biodiversity net gain six months in and the planning highlights from the budget
Nov 06, 2024
Ep118: How much unspent developer contribution cash councils are holding onto
Oct 30, 2024
Ep117: What draft NPPF changes on green belt mean for decision-makers, plus the impact of ministerial efforts to speed up plan examinations
Oct 23, 2024
Ep116: Why new requirements for the early submission of legal agreements alongside written appeals has prompted alarm
Oct 16, 2024
Ep115: The issues raised by council planning teams’ widespread use of agency staff, plus highlights from the Tory conference
Oct 09, 2024
Ep114: All the planning news from the Labour Party conference
Oct 03, 2024
Ep113: What the draft NPPF changes would mean for affordable housing and brownfield land development
Sep 26, 2024
Ep112: High Court overturns secretary of state approval for coal mine, inspectors tell council to withdraw local plan, and voters reject neighbourhood plan
Sep 18, 2024
Ep111: What the proposed cutting of 'beauty' references in the draft NPPF would mean for planners, plus other key news
Sep 11, 2024
Ep110: Why councils faced with hikes in housing need are accelerating plan preparation, plus other key news
Sep 05, 2024
Ep109: The five most important exceptional circumstances used by plan-makers to justify releasing green belt
Aug 29, 2024
Ep108: Council reveals £826K planning budget overspend, local plan delays over NPPF changes, and Miliband threatened over solar farm approval
Aug 21, 2024
Ep107: Why a council is investing £1m in its planning service and how the NPPF revisions would change housing need assessments
Aug 14, 2024
Ep106: How the new standard method will affect councils' housing need levels and ministerial announcements on local plan preparation
Aug 08, 2024
Ep105: Your 30-minute guide to Labour’s proposed National Planning Policy Framework revisions
Aug 02, 2024
Ep104: What the new government's first King's Speech means for planning and why a national newspaper opinion piece has prompted sector fury
Jul 24, 2024
Ep103: What you need to know about planning for data centres
Jul 17, 2024
Ep102: Labour's historic election victory, its housing department appointments and early planning announcements
Jul 10, 2024
Ep101: How the government's own planning performance measures up
Jul 03, 2024
Ep100: A Supreme Court ruling on an oil drilling project, a council's procedural error halts its legal challenge, plus planning applications fall to record lows
Jun 26, 2024
Ep99: The planning promises in Labour's election manifesto, plus housing delivery test predictions
Jun 19, 2024
Ep98: Councils delaying local plan work over general election and the Tory and Lib Dem manifestos
Jun 13, 2024
Ep97: The planning proposals we can expect from Labour’s first 100 days in power and how the election announcement impacts policy and legislation
Jun 06, 2024
Ep96: Labour's new towns policy, the general election announcement, plus a council accusing a charity of local plan 'misinformation'
May 30, 2024
Ep95: What the new metro mayors mean for planning, plus the fallout from a councillor accusing planning officers of 'lobbying for developers'
May 22, 2024
Ep94: The latest local authority to be placed in planning special measures, planning decision bribery allegations, and the best-paid council planning leads
May 16, 2024
Ep93: What planners need to know about using social media and the secretary of state's attitude to countryside solar farms
May 10, 2024
Ep92: Why councils are cutting their local plan home targets, new housing affordability data and the latest on Labour's green belt policies
May 01, 2024
Ep91: The implications of a legal change that aims to make it easier for developers to amend planning permissions
Apr 24, 2024
Ep90: Biodiversity net gain comes into force for small sites, plus changes to planning enforcement and compulsory purchase rules
Apr 17, 2024
Ep89: The implications of the government's proposed new 'accelerated planning system'
Apr 09, 2024
Ep88: Why a Tory council was removed from special measures after just three months and the latest on Labour's planning policies
Apr 03, 2024
Ep87: The implications of the proposed new presumption in favour of brownfield development
Mar 27, 2024
Ep86: EXTRA The lessons learned by the pioneers of the mandatory new authority-wide design codes
Mar 26, 2024
Ep85: Your ten-minute guide to the Budget announcements, plus two more councils placed in special measures
Mar 21, 2024
Ep84: How cost-saving management consultants are impacting planning services, plus a roundup of the Budget announcements
Mar 13, 2024
Ep83: The High Court's quashing of Gove's M&S decision and a government-commissioned report on housebuilding
Mar 06, 2024
Ep82: Why a court ruling that permissions cannot be split retrospectively will make it more difficult for developers to modify large schemes, plus this week’s key news
Feb 28, 2024
Ep81: Your 20-minute guide to the government's latest consultations on permitted development rights and brownfield land policy, plus a row between Gove and Khan
Feb 22, 2024
Ep80: The policy and legislation that Sunak, Gove and colleagues could change before the next general election
Feb 14, 2024
Ep79: New government guidance on housing land supply and yet another ministerial local plan intervention
Feb 08, 2024
Ep78: What the revised NPPF means for meeting housing need and housing land supply targets
Jan 31, 2024
Ep77: Resident ‘offered lap dance club visit in relation to planning application’, plus the date for the launch of biodiversity net gain is finally revealed
Jan 24, 2024
Ep76: A reported further delay to the launch of biodiversity net gain, plus a scathing review of a council's planning service
Jan 18, 2024
Ep75: Your 40-minute guide to how the new National Planning Policy Framework changes the system, plus news round-up
Jan 11, 2024
Ep74: The councils paying out the most in appeal cost awards, plus the week's key stories
Dec 13, 2023
Ep73: The council that kept more than £100k it owed to applicants, plus the week's other key stories
Dec 08, 2023
Ep72: The big planning announcements in the chancellor's autumn statement, plus the week's key stories
Nov 30, 2023
Ep71: Rowley's return to the ministerial hotseat, and when the Levelling Up Act will take effect
Nov 22, 2023
Ep70: Gove urges councils to consider flexing local plan policies, plus the week's key stories
Nov 16, 2023
Ep69: The habitats developers won't need to enhance under new biodiversity rules, and the 1,000-home scheme threatened by water supply concerns
Nov 08, 2023
Ep68: How the Levelling Up Act will affect planning, and how to prepare for biodiversity net gain
Nov 01, 2023
Ep67: The latest changes to the Levelling Up Bill, as it nears royal assent, plus other key news
Oct 25, 2023
Ep66: All the essential points for planners from the party conferences, plus other key news
Oct 18, 2023
Ep65: The planning implications of shortening HS2, plus other key news
Oct 11, 2023
Ep64: The implications of Angela Rayner’s appointment as shadow housing secretary, examining Michael Gove’s new planning ‘super squad’ to help struggling councils, plus other key news
Oct 05, 2023
Ep63: Lords kill off government plans to boost housebuilding by relaxing water pollution controls in the levelling up bill, plus other key news
Sep 27, 2023
Ep62: The government’s decision to extend its new requirement for second staircases in tower blocks to a much wider range of buildings, plus other key news
Sep 20, 2023
Ep61: How the government plans to relax rules on water-polluting housebuilding and wind-farms, plus other key news
Sep 13, 2023
Ep60: Will the rise in planning application fees help improve the planning system, plus other key news
Sep 06, 2023
Ep59: Why development that leaves buildings’ exteriors unchanged can still harm an area’s character, a new government tool for calculating housebuilding’s impact on school provision, plus other key news
Aug 31, 2023
Ep58: What Gove’s stay of demolition for M&S’s 1930s Oxford Street building means for decision-makers and applicants
Aug 18, 2023
Ep57: Your 20 minute guide to government plans for application fees, extended permitted development rights, new plan-making and NSIP systems and a raft of other proposals
Aug 02, 2023
Ep56: How May’s election results will influence parties’ planning policies, plus this week’s key news
Jul 27, 2023
Ep55: When we can expect the government’s national planning policy revisions to eventually appear, why a parliamentary committee thinks the revisions would put the government’s annual 300,000-home target out of reach, and much more
Jul 19, 2023
Ep54: Can we expect the government’s stalled planning changes to move forward, and if so, when?
Jul 12, 2023
Ep53: The implications of Labour’s green belt plans, why a clergyman’s wife was referred to police, and plans to boost council planning recruits
Jul 06, 2023
Ep52: How new plans to relax change of use rules for vacant high street sites could work, and what this could mean for your local pub
Jun 28, 2023
Ep51: How Gove is factoring design considerations into his decisions, more fallout from the May local elections and government promises of more planning support for farm diversification
Jun 21, 2023
Ep50: Will the government really strip planning powers from ten councils, and what are the implications of the London mayor’s new push to secure social housing from developers?
Jun 14, 2023
Ep49: The government’s proposed new high street permitted development rights, Labour’s plan for cheaper compulsory acquisitions and the grants threat to neighbourhood planning
Jun 07, 2023
Ep48: Deep dive into Labour’s planning pledges and the implications of the May election results
Jun 01, 2023
Ep47: Planning powers of ten councils potentially in jeopardy after Gove’s warning, plus an inspector’s decision to allow 100 homes on the Surrey green belt
May 24, 2023
Ep46: Do Jeremy Clarkson’s criticisms of the planning system stack up? Plus Gove’s threatening letter to councils, and other key news stories of the past week
May 17, 2023
Ep45: Labour’s planning promises, tougher penalties for slow-building developers and the elusive replacement for the duty on councils to cooperate
May 11, 2023
Ep44: Why councils need to consider future development when assessing infrastructure applications intended to support it, plus key news from the past week
Apr 26, 2023
Ep43: The government’s new plans for short-term lets and why some councils and developers have been getting into trouble with inspectors and in the courts
Apr 20, 2023
Ep42: Your guide to the government’s new Infrastructure Levy plans, plus what our research reveals about the consultancies with the highest proportion of female planners
Apr 12, 2023
Ep41: More levelling-up bill amendments, planning applications plunge to new lows, and the government outlines how it will implement developer planning prohibitions over unsafe buildings
Apr 05, 2023
Ep40: How national planning policy changes would affect the potential for denser development, plus the key news of the past week
Mar 29, 2023
Ep39: The government’s latest plans for replacing section 106 agreements, the developers on Gove’s ‘planning prohibition’ hit list and the spring Budget
Mar 23, 2023
Ep38: How working from home is affecting council planning teams and what our latest research tells us about councils’ five-year land supply positions
Mar 15, 2023
Ep37: How councils could raise fees by 35 per cent under government proposals, what we know about Labour’s intentions for the planning system, and the implications of a court ruling for prior approval of upward extensions
Mar 09, 2023
Ep36: What the appointment of new planning minister Rachel Maclean means for the industry PLUS the implications draft changes to national planning policy requiring the promotion of ‘beauty’ and energy efficiency, and restricting farmland development
Mar 02, 2023
Ep35: The government postpones some biodiversity net gain requirements, the levelling-up department’s new director of planning is leaving and more councils delay local plans
Feb 24, 2023
Ep34: The timeline for implementing the proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework and what the revisions would mean for councils in England’s biggest urban areas
Feb 14, 2023
Ep33: What planners need to know about the government’s new Environmental Improvement Plan, plus Gove’s plan to force developers to fix unsafe buildings
Feb 08, 2023
Ep32: National Planning Policy Framework draft revisions deep dive – how the tests faced by councils on housing delivery, site allocation and local plan preparation would change
Feb 02, 2023
Ep31: What’s behind councils’ recent rush to withdraw local plans, more reports of low morale in planning authorities, and why one hallowed planning course has stopped recruiting students
Jan 25, 2023
Ep30: Your 20-minute guide to recent amendments to the government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
Jan 18, 2023
Ep29: Your 30-minute guide to how the proposed National Planning Policy Framework changes would alter the system, plus news round-up
Jan 12, 2023
Ep28: How the government is responding to the backbench levelling-up bill rebellion, and what our latest survey reveals about the UK’s planning consultancy market in 2022
Dec 15, 2022
Ep27: The Tory levelling-up bill rebellion, England’s biggest 50 local planning authorities, and what you need to know about the government’s autumn statement
Dec 01, 2022
Ep26: What we know about new planning minister Lucy Frazer, how the Supreme Court has cast doubt on the validity of old consents, and why a council error over heritage harm sank a big housing scheme
Nov 15, 2022
Ep25: What new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the return of Michael Gove as levelling up secretary mean for planning, and will investment zones survive the end of Liz Truss’s administration?
Nov 02, 2022
Ep24: How the government will incentivise communities to accept housebuilding, rumours of relaxation of affordable housing demands on developers and the council that ‘epitomised unreasonableness’?
Oct 19, 2022
Ep23: Yet another new planning bill, the implications of the government’s promised investment zones and what we learnt at the Labour Party conference
Oct 05, 2022
Room 106 sponsored excerpt: the implications of Liz Truss’s installation as Prime Minister, sponsored by Shoosmiths
Sep 22, 2022
Ep22: Simon Clarke’s appointment as housing minister, introducing the other new ministers with planning responsibility, and what’s behind the latest spate of local plan delays PLUS the implications of Liz Truss’s installation as Prime Minister
Sep 22, 2022
Ep21: Liz Truss’s planning priorities, how a councillor ‘brought his council into disrepute’, and the legal advice that led a council to drop its defence of a 900-home planning refusal
Sep 07, 2022
Ep20: The implications of more plan-making delays, why a man cave has landed an accountant in jail, and what is behind the latest spate of big consultancy takeovers
Aug 24, 2022
Ep 19: The Tory leadership hopefuls’ latest planning proposals, the government’s attempts to unblock permissions stalled by water pollution, and a ‘disgraceful’ local plan
Aug 10, 2022
Ep18: What changes in the Tory government will mean for planning
Jul 28, 2022
Ep 17: The council that withdrew a sound local plan, Gove backtracks on the NPPF revision timeline PLUS the guidance on limiting water pollution that is blocking housing permissions explained
Jun 29, 2022
Ep16: Implications of next month’s promised NPPF ‘update’, Gove’s plan to rein in PINS on housing need and the levelling-up bill’s proposals to change strategic planning
Jun 14, 2022
Ep15: More Levelling Up Bill analysis, the councils granting the least self-build permissions and PINS’ goals to speed up decision-making
May 31, 2022
Ep14: Your 30-minute guide to how the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will change the planning system
May 18, 2022
Ep13: Pollution concerns hold up 100,000 new homes, a council takes drastic steps to clear an applications backlog, and more of the latest planning news 
May 05, 2022
Ep12: The reported demise of section 106, government proposals to change planning for energy and the rest of the week’s key news
Apr 21, 2022
Ep11: Councils go slow on plan-making, miss housing land supply targets, and the rest of the week’s key news
Apr 08, 2022
Ep10: Chilterns decision-making frozen, areas where housebuilding is limited by water pollution double, plus other key news, plus other key news
Mar 24, 2022
Ep9: The Planning Bill’s reported demise, the crisis at Calderdale Council and another authority under cyber attack
Mar 08, 2022
Ep8: Why Uttlesford is the first council to be stripped of planning powers for poor decision-making, what Stuart Andrews' appointment as planning minister means for the sector, plus more of the last fortnight’s most important news
Feb 22, 2022
Ep7: What the levelling up white paper means for planning, the challenges facing planning authorities in 2022-23, plus more of the last fortnight’s most important news
Feb 08, 2022
Ep6: The councils whose planning position has been weakened by the housing delivery test results, plus more of the last fortnight’s most important news
Jan 27, 2022
Ep5: Council officers in crisis, housing delivery test result forecasts and newly permanent PD rights
Jan 12, 2022
Ep4: How the new legal duty to boost biodiversity can be met, plus the key news from last week
Dec 07, 2021
Ep3: DLUHC’s emerging approach, Environment Act implications and the Planning Consultancy Market Report 2021
Dec 01, 2021
Ep2: The key planning news, plus the PM’s greenfield pledge
Nov 11, 2021
Ep1: Welcome to Room 106
Nov 04, 2021