Room 106
Planning magazine
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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In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing a Planning report into England’s 30 busiest local planning authorities, including: which councils are listed in the study; their application workload and fee income; their staffing levels; their appeal success rate; and their enforcement activity.
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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Previous episodes
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122 - Ep121: England's 30 busiest local planning authorities – their resource and activity levels Thu, 21 Nov 2024 - 0h
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121 - Ep120: The fall-out from the housing secretary's last-minute calling in of plans for an 8,400-home garden village Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - 0h
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120 - Ep119: The challenges facing biodiversity net gain six months in and the planning highlights from the budget Wed, 06 Nov 2024 - 0h
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119 - Ep118: How much unspent developer contribution cash councils are holding onto Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 0h
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118 - Ep117: What draft NPPF changes on green belt mean for decision-makers, plus the impact of ministerial efforts to speed up plan examinations Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 0h
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117 - Ep116: Why new requirements for the early submission of legal agreements alongside written appeals has prompted alarm Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 0h
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116 - Ep115: The issues raised by council planning teams’ widespread use of agency staff, plus highlights from the Tory conference Wed, 09 Oct 2024 - 0h
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115 - Ep114: All the planning news from the Labour Party conference Thu, 03 Oct 2024 - 0h
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114 - Ep113: What the draft NPPF changes would mean for affordable housing and brownfield land development Thu, 26 Sep 2024 - 0h
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113 - Ep112: High Court overturns secretary of state approval for coal mine, inspectors tell council to withdraw local plan, and voters reject neighbourhood plan Wed, 18 Sep 2024 - 0h
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112 - Ep111: What the proposed cutting of 'beauty' references in the draft NPPF would mean for planners, plus other key news Wed, 11 Sep 2024 - 0h
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111 - Ep110: Why councils faced with hikes in housing need are accelerating plan preparation, plus other key news Thu, 05 Sep 2024 - 0h
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110 - Ep109: The five most important exceptional circumstances used by plan-makers to justify releasing green belt Thu, 29 Aug 2024 - 0h
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109 - Ep108: Council reveals £826K planning budget overspend, local plan delays over NPPF changes, and Miliband threatened over solar farm approval Wed, 21 Aug 2024 - 0h
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108 - Ep107: Why a council is investing £1m in its planning service and how the NPPF revisions would change housing need assessments Wed, 14 Aug 2024 - 0h
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107 - Ep106: How the new standard method will affect councils' housing need levels and ministerial announcements on local plan preparation Thu, 08 Aug 2024 - 0h
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106 - Ep105: Your 30-minute guide to Labour’s proposed National Planning Policy Framework revisions Fri, 02 Aug 2024 - 0h
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105 - Ep104: What the new government's first King's Speech means for planning and why a national newspaper opinion piece has prompted sector fury Wed, 24 Jul 2024 - 0h
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104 - Ep103: What you need to know about planning for data centres Wed, 17 Jul 2024 - 0h
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103 - Ep102: Labour's historic election victory, its housing department appointments and early planning announcements Wed, 10 Jul 2024 - 0h
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102 - Ep101: How the government's own planning performance measures up Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 0h
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101 - 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 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 0h
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100 - Ep99: The planning promises in Labour's election manifesto, plus housing delivery test predictions Wed, 19 Jun 2024 - 0h
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99 - Ep98: Councils delaying local plan work over general election and the Tory and Lib Dem manifestos Thu, 13 Jun 2024 - 0h
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98 - Ep97: The planning proposals we can expect from Labour’s first 100 days in power and how the election announcement impacts policy and legislation Thu, 06 Jun 2024 - 0h
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97 - Ep96: Labour's new towns policy, the general election announcement, plus a council accusing a charity of local plan 'misinformation' Thu, 30 May 2024 - 0h
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96 - Ep95: What the new metro mayors mean for planning, plus the fallout from a councillor accusing planning officers of 'lobbying for developers' Wed, 22 May 2024 - 0h
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95 - Ep94: The latest local authority to be placed in planning special measures, planning decision bribery allegations, and the best-paid council planning leads Thu, 16 May 2024 - 0h
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94 - Ep93: What planners need to know about using social media and the secretary of state's attitude to countryside solar farms Fri, 10 May 2024 - 0h
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93 - Ep92: Why councils are cutting their local plan home targets, new housing affordability data and the latest on Labour's green belt policies Wed, 01 May 2024 - 0h
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92 - Ep91: The implications of a legal change that aims to make it easier for developers to amend planning permissions Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 0h
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91 - Ep90: Biodiversity net gain comes into force for small sites, plus changes to planning enforcement and compulsory purchase rules Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 0h
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90 - Ep89: The implications of the government's proposed new 'accelerated planning system' Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 0h
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89 - Ep88: Why a Tory council was removed from special measures after just three months and the latest on Labour's planning policies Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 0h
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88 - Ep87: The implications of the proposed new presumption in favour of brownfield development Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 0h
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87 - Ep86: EXTRA The lessons learned by the pioneers of the mandatory new authority-wide design codes Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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86 - Ep85: Your ten-minute guide to the Budget announcements, plus two more councils placed in special measures Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 0h
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85 - Ep84: How cost-saving management consultants are impacting planning services, plus a roundup of the Budget announcements Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 0h
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84 - Ep83: The High Court's quashing of Gove's M&S decision and a government-commissioned report on housebuilding Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 0h
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83 - 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 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 0h
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82 - 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  Thu, 22 Feb 2024 - 0h
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81 - Ep80: The policy and legislation that Sunak, Gove and colleagues could change before the next general election Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 0h
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80 - Ep79: New government guidance on housing land supply and yet another ministerial local plan intervention Thu, 08 Feb 2024 - 0h
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79 - Ep78: What the revised NPPF means for meeting housing need and housing land supply targets Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 0h
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78 - 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 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 0h
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77 - Ep76: A reported further delay to the launch of biodiversity net gain, plus a scathing review of a council's planning service Thu, 18 Jan 2024 - 0h
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76 - Ep75: Your 40-minute guide to how the new National Planning Policy Framework changes the system, plus news round-up Thu, 11 Jan 2024 - 0h
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75 - Ep74: The councils paying out the most in appeal cost awards, plus the week's key stories Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 0h
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74 - Ep73: The council that kept more than £100k it owed to applicants, plus the week's other key stories Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 0h
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73 - Ep72: The big planning announcements in the chancellor's autumn statement, plus the week's key stories Thu, 30 Nov 2023 - 0h