In this edition, we’ll be discussing: 

• The Supreme Court overturning a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld the refusal on nutrient pollution grounds of a developer’s bid to discharge conditions relating to a 650-home scheme.
• The housing ministry and the mayor of London announcing an “emergency” package of measures aiming to boost housebuilding in the capital that includes a relaxation of affordable housing requirements.
• A report from the Parliamentary watchdog on the developer contribution system that warns ministers about a “drought of planners in local authorities”.
• Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.

Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 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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• An important letter from housing minister Matthew Pennycook to the Planning Inspectorate in which he gives advice to inspectors examining local plans with a particular focus on green belt reviews.
• The government publishing a series of amendments to its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill. 
• And the announcement of a deal between two government departments, two statutory consultees and a water company that seeks to enable the delivery of 21,000 new homes.
• Plus the other biggest planning news stories from the past week.

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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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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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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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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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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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The secret chamber where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued before extracting the key information for planning professionals. 

In this deep-dive edition, we’ll be taking a look ahead at the government’s planning policy and legislation programme over the next six months – what are the key announcements and measures that we can expect?

Among other things, we’ll be talking about the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, national development management policies and changes to the plan-making system 

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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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. 

In this edition, we’ll be discussing: 

• The surprise resignation of Angela Rayner as housing secretary last week and the planning track record of her replacement.
• The planning news from the Reform UK Conference this weekend.
• And a judge confirming a planning inspector’s finding that green belt openness "cannot be compromised" by "not inappropriate" development.

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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. 

This week, we’re going to take a closer look at the latest twist in the ongoing legal and planning battle between the government and an Essex council over the use of a hotel to house asylum seekers, which on Friday saw the Court of Appeal reverse a High Court injunction in an unusually scathing ruling. We'll also discuss: 

• Reports that the government is considering a new planning bill;
• And the High Court quashing a council’s consent for a self-build home over a planning officer's “error of law”.

In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.

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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. 

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing whether a council’s bold bid to reclassify several villages as towns in order to protect them from green belt development is likely to be effective.

We'll also examine the government’s latest amendments to the controversial nature recovery measures in its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.

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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. 

This week, we’re going to take a closer look at: 

• The housing secretary Angela Rayner blocking a council’s bid to allocate a site in a special protection area for up to 1,250 homes in its emerging local plan
• A Labour Party councillor losing the party whip after being caught making anonymous online posts defending the council’s proposed release of green belt sites in its local plan
• And the High Court ordering a campaigner to pay £85,000 and a council £9,000 in costs after losing their joint legal battle over a decision to register a set of playing fields as a village green. 

In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.

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Room 106, the gloomy underground vault where all the latest planning announcements and decisions are issued, to pull out the key information for you. 

This week, we’re going to take a closer look at: 

• The housing secretary Angela Rayner giving the Chinese embassy two weeks to “comprehensively” explain why new building plans have been redacted 

• A planning inspector concluding that a council’s net zero requirement in a 2,200-home garden village plan is “consistent with national policy” more than two years after previous inspectors claimed that the strategy’s approach conflicted with a written ministerial statement. More 

• A local authority urging applicants to avoid “chasing” its planning team for updates as part of an action plan to tackle a 1,700-case backlog 

• And an inspector allowing an appeal over plans for an extension to a weapons factory that a council refused against officer advice due to “community cohesion” concerns 

In addition, we’ll be rounding up the other key news from the past week to make sure you’re up to speed on all the goings-on in the planning sector.

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In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing our exclusive report, which reveals when England’s busiest local authorities say they will hit key local plan preparation milestones, and when peaks and troughs in plan-making activity are predicted to occur.

We’ll also examine how the Labour Party has performed against its own planning objectives in its first year in office.

In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. 

Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 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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In this episode we explore:

• The planning minister Matthew Pennycook appearing before two Parliamentary select committees - we discuss the planning highlights, including key announcements about developer contributions, affordable homes, viability guidance and new towns; 
• The news that a promised government consultation on national development management policies will be delayed until later this year; 
• A council ruling out green belt release in its draft local plan, despite meeting just over half of its local housing need.

In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. 

Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 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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In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing our annual Planning Law Survey, which takes an in-depth and exclusive look at the most highly rated planning barristers, law firms and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest and fastest-growing planning teams. 

In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. 

Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 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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In this episode we explore:

• The key planning takeaways from the government’s English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, which was published last week.
• A review by a planning advisory body that found that a council’s planning committee is perceived to be "operating with undue influence" amid probity "suspicions".
• A local authority that has proposed redefining four villages as towns to protect them from the new grey belt designation in national planning policy.

In addition, we round up the key planning news from the past week to make sure you are up to speed on all the goings-on in the sector. 

Key planning news, and why it is important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 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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This is the fourth 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 week, we will be discussing: 

• Two notable appeal decisions – one of which show how a future drop in housing land supply can be an important material consideration for inspectors even if the current position is adequate and protected for the near future, while the other demonstrates that neighbourhood plans still have teeth. 
• Ministerial decisions on data centre proposals in the green belt and how it reflects changing national planning policy on green belt.
• A Court of Appeal judgment that backed an inspector's consideration of the so-called ‘downstream’ impacts of future carbon emissions when allowing an oil drilling project.

More information on all these cases can be found in the July 2025 edition of monthly 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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In this Deep Dive edition, we discuss how rising public concern about sewage pollution in rivers, plus inadequate levels of investment in water treatment capacity, is leading to thousands of new homes across England being blocked or postponed.

Planning editor Richard Garlick and Planning special correspondent Joey Gardiner discuss Joey’s investigation into the issue, published by Planning last week.

It shows how:

• water companies are recommending that many applications for homes are refused, or conditions blocking occupation applied, because of water treatment capacity issues
• in one area in which 300,000 homes are needed by 2030, the planned investment in water treatment capacity improvements is only adequate for 175,000, not all of them in places where the planning system says homes are needed
• in the same area, there is a particular shortage of capacity in large towns and cities where growth would normally be focussed
• similar issues are affecting housebuilding in other parts of England, with at least one council imposing conditions restricting occupation without having been asked to do so by the local water company, and having had its approach endorsed at appeal

In addition, we’ll 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. 

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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This week, we will be discussing:

• The Planning Inspectorate announcing an expansion of the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to far more cases in an effort to speed up decisions.
• The government’s ten-year infrastructure strategy and what it means for planners.
• The government’s withdrawal of funding for neighbourhood planning support services.

In addition, we’ll 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. 

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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