Room 106
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 164
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ep163: The government's ongoing planning battle with a local authority over asylum-seeker hotels
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 …
Ep162: Is a council’s bid to reclassify villages as towns to protect them from green belt development likely to be effective?
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 w…
Ep161: Why Rayner has blocked a council’s bid to allocate a site for 1,250 homes in its emerging local plan
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:…
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
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:…
Ep159: When England’s busiest local planning authorities say they will hit key plan-making milestones
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…
Ep158: The key planning takeaways from the planning minister's latest select committee appearances
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 develop…
Ep157: The highest-rated planning barristers and solicitors and the law firms with the biggest planning teams
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 th…
Ep156: Why a planning committee was found to be ‘severely affecting’ a council’s reputation, plus the devolution bill highlights
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 …
Ep155: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
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-r…
Ep154: How a lack of sewage treatment capacity is blocking applications for new homes across England
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 home…
Ep153: The Planning Inspectorate expanding the ‘simplified’ written appeal process to speed up decisions
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…
Ep152: The implications of the latest government proposals to increase developer build-out rates
In this Deep Dive edition, we discuss:
- Government proposals to boost developers’ build-out rates for consented housing sites
- The planning consultancies that employ the most female planners
In addition, …
Ep151: Council launches legal challenge and blasts planning inspector over local plan failure
This week, we discuss:
- A local authority threatening legal action and blasting a planning inspector after their local plan was found to have failed the legal duty to cooperate.
- The housing ministry r…
Ep150: What the growth of the logistics sector means for planners
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:
- The growth of logistics developments – how the planning system is treating these kinds of schemes and the issues they present for planning professional…
Ep149: Your 22-minute guide to the latest planning blitz on build-out rates, biodiversity net gain and decision-making
This week, we will be discussing a spate of big planning announcements from the government. We will be focusing on the proposed measures to:
- Increase developer’s build-out rates for permitted sites.
- St…
Ep148: How Reform councils and mayors will use their planning powers
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:
- How councils and mayors that are now controlled by the Reform party will use their planning powers.
- What a recent Court of Appeal ruling means for the t…
Ep147: Casebook Extra – the month’s key ministerial, inspectors’ and court decisions summarised
This is the third 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-ru…
Ep146: The lowdown on two important ‘grey belt’ decisions from the secretary of state and a High Court judge
This week, we will be discussing:
- The High Court quashing an inspector’s rejection of 120 green belt homes because he failed to consider whether the scheme met the new ‘golden rules’ for green belt ho…
Ep145: The six key lessons from planning inspectors on grey belt appeal decisions
In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining the six key lessons to be learned from planning inspectors about the dozens of appeal decisions that have been issued so far where the government’s new…
Ep144: How the government is seeking to change the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and a row over a local plan examination
This week, we will be discussing:
- The government’s amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
- Estimates of the bill's economic impact and concerns about its proposed changes to environmental r…