Ep170: An important court ruling on green belt openness and our housing delivery test predictions
In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be we’ll be taking a look at:How a court ruling confirms the difficulty for councils in using green belt openness as a way to resist development.And our exclusive research on the local authorities we predict will have weakened planning protections after the next housing delivery test results.We’ll also be rounding up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector.
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Ep169: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the fifth edition of our new monthly series examining the key appeal and court decisions from the past four weeks.As before, we speak to technical editor David Dewar, who compiles the long-running Casebook section of Planning. This month, we will be discussing: How inspectors are assessing industrial schemes and the importance of local need.An appeal case that shows how inspectors are balancing requirements for accessibility against local housing need. Growing numbers of appeals over proposals for battery storage schemes and the substantial weight that inspectors are placing on their benefits.The High Court upholding a ministerial consent for new homes in a national landscape dismissing a challenge that claimed it contravened a new legal duty.More information on all these cases can be found in the October 2025 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.
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Ep168: The planning highlights from the Labour Party Conference, plus a joint local plan fails a legal duty
In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The planning highlights from last week’s Labour Party Conference.A government inspector announcing that a joint local plan in a key growth area of the country has failed a legal duty.And three big planning decisions by the housing minister.
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Ep167: Ministers back the initial recommendations of the New Towns Taskforce, plus the consultancies that allow the most home working
In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at: The government responding to the initial findings of its New Towns Taskforce, which has called for 12 locations to be taken forward.And discussing our exclusive survey on the planning consultancies that allow the most working from home.
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Ep166: Your six-minute guide to the government’s new flood risk planning guidance, plus Labour’s first local plan intervention
The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals. In this edition, we’ll be discussing: The Labour government's first local plan intervention.Long-awaited new national planning guidance on the flood risk sequential test. And the first planning pronouncements by the new housing secretary.
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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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