Room 106

Ep196: The great CIL repayment - how much could be refunded to developers?

Ep195: Member slams planning officers over grey belt recommendations, a ministerial local plan intervention and final new towns shortlist revealed

Will Whitehorn: “We have to industrialise in space. It is an imperative”

Space-Comm Expo: Jamming, spoofing, FOMO and farming

Ep194: The biggest employers of female planners and why there is pressure for the new NPPF to address women’s safety

Ep193: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Ep192: What the government has revealed about how the new local plan system will work

Ep191: How the growth in AI objection letters is impacting planners

Ep190: Why a council is set to charge for invalid planning applications plus PINS issues updated AI guidance

Why the business of space is everyone’s business

Ep189: How a court ruling impacts national grey belt rules, plus the lowdown on the government's new pollution mitigation scheme

Ep188: Government reveals proposed geography of new strategic planning system and makes two local plan interventions

Ep187: Six key factors for inspectors determining brownfield appeals in the green belt

Ep186: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Ep185: Why two landowners have been handed prison sentences for breaking planning laws

Ep184: Your 30-minute guide to the most significant planning policy and legal changes in the next six months

Ep183: Two councils’ planning services hit by cyber-attacks, plus Pennycook’s affordable housing intervention

Ep182: The key takeaways from the latest in-depth report on the planning consultancy market

Ep181: Your 40-minute guide to the new draft NPPF

Ep180: A first-take overview of the new NPPF, plus local plans in peril

Ep179: Why the government’s drive to digitise the planning system is yet to make a meaningful impact on services

Ep178: The key planning takeaways from the Budget and the sudden scrapping of a legal duty for local plan-makers

Ep177: Reed announces plans to ease new home consents around train stations and changes to application call-in process

Ep176: What non-statutory national development management policies would mean for planners

Ep175: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Ep174: Local government reorganisation in Surrey and a city council goes to court to claim £1m in unpaid developer contributions

Ep173: England's biggest and busiest local planning authorities

Ep172: An important Supreme Court ruling on nutrient neutrality and 'emergency' planning measures to boost London housebuilding

Ep171: How Pennycook has advised inspectors to change their approach to local plan examinations plus the latest planning bill tweaks

Ep170: An important court ruling on green belt openness and our housing delivery test predictions

Ep169: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Ep168: The planning highlights from the Labour Party Conference, plus a joint local plan fails a legal duty

Ep167: Ministers back the initial recommendations of the New Towns Taskforce, plus the consultancies that allow the most home working

Ep166: Your six-minute guide to the government’s new flood risk planning guidance, plus Labour’s first local plan intervention

Ep165: The most important planning policy and legislation changes to expect in the next six months

Ep164: The new housing secretary's planning track record and highlights from the Reform UK conference

Ep163: The government's ongoing planning battle with a local authority over asylum-seeker hotels

Ep162: Is a council’s bid to reclassify villages as towns to protect them from green belt development likely to be effective?

Ep161: Why Rayner has blocked a council’s bid to allocate a site for 1,250 homes in its emerging local plan

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

Ep159: When England’s busiest local planning authorities say they will hit key plan-making milestones

Ep158: The key planning takeaways from the planning minister's latest select committee appearances

Ep157: The highest-rated planning barristers and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest planning teams

Ep156: Why a planning committee was found to be ‘severely affecting’ a council’s reputation, plus the devolution bill highlights

Ep155: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

Ep154: How a lack of sewage treatment capacity is blocking applications for new homes across England

Ep153: The Planning Inspectorate expanding the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to speed up decisions

Ep152: The implications of the latest government proposals to increase developer build-out rates

Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure

Ep150: What the growth of the logistics sector means for planners