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    Ep231: Your 25-minute guide to the biggest impending planning policy and legal changes, plus major news in the consultancy sector

    23/10/2026 | 33 mins.
    In this edition, we’ll be:

    Taking a Deep Dive into the government’s planning policy and legislation programme over the next six months – what are the key announcements and measures that we can expect?
    Discussing some big changes in the planning consultancy market, including the news that one of the country’s largest property consultancies is considering making its whole planning division redundant.

    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.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    Ep230: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised

    16/10/2026 | 23 mins.
    The latest 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’ll be discussing:
    An appeal allowing 249 homes in Oxfordshire that has prompted concerns among practitioners due to the way the inspector assessed the proposal against the new S5 policy in the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) that sets out the "presumption in favour of sustainable development" outside settlements.
    An appeal for a site-intensification scheme in Dorset that offered an early example of the application of the NPPF's new heritage impact test.
    A court case that examined whether an inspector misinterpreted national flooding policy in allowing 250 homes and the role of the exception and sequential tests.
    How inspectors are handling the new NPPF's S4 and S5 policies that outline when the presumption in favour of sustainable development should be applied.
    An inspector assessing the heritage impact of a proposal for two huge new fun fair rides in Blackpool.

    More information on all these cases can be found in the October 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.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    Ep229: All the planning news from the Tory conference plus Pennycook highlights ‘universal tilt’ in new NPPF

    15/10/2026 | 36 mins.
    In this episode, we’ll be talking about:

    All the planning news from the Conservative Party conference, including details of the Tories’ emerging vision of how they would change the planning system if they were in government.
    A letter to the Planning Inspectorate from the planning minister Matthew Pennycook highlighting what he calls the “universal tilt” in favour of permission in the new version of the National Planning Policy Framework.
    A council finding that four of its members broke its rules by leaking a confidential local plan report.

    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.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    Ep228: All the planning news from the Labour Party conference

    08/10/2026 | 20 mins.
    In this episode, we’ll be talking about:

    All the planning news from the Labour Party conference, including planning minister Matthew Pennycook opining on whether the government will further update the National Planning Policy Framework and on local authority decision-making.
    A round-up of what the Green Party has been saying about housing delivery and development at its annual conference last week.

    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.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    Ep227: How the planning minister is stepping up the pressure on councils seeking to slow down local plan work

    02/10/2026 | 29 mins.
    In this episode, we’ll be examining:

    The latest local plan interventions by the planning minister and how councils at the receiving end are reacting.
    The publication of the first-ever draft environmental delivery plan under the government’s new nature recovery system.
    A planning inspector applying a key new policy from the revised National Planning Policy Framework in allowing a large housing scheme on unallocated farmland.

    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.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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