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In this Deep Dive edition, we will be previewing the local and mayoral elections taking place later this week. 

We will be discussing:

• Where they are happening.
• What the results are expected to show at …

This week, we will be: 

• Revealing the councils with the most grey belt land in England.
• Discussing the latest developments around how councils are reacting to the new grey belt national policy. 

In addi…

This is the second 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…

In this Deep Dive edition, we will be examining:

• Why a Court of Appeal ruling means that planners will need to pay greater attention to changes to national Planning Practice Guidance.
• Why councils are …

This week, we will be examining: 

• The chancellor’s spring statement, in which she announced the independent fiscal watchdog’s forecasted impact of the government's revisions to the National Planning P…

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining how and why a Cambridgeshire council's planning department implemented a four-day working week and the impact on its performance.

We’ll also be rounding u…

This week, we are launching the first of a new monthly series examining the key appeal and court decisions from the past four weeks.

Joining me is our technical editor David Dewar who compiles our lon…

This week, we will be examining the government’s publication of its flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill, focusing on the following measures:

• Allowing councils to set their own planning applicati…

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be examining:

• Why many developers are predicting that planning application volumes – particularly for new homes – will rise sharply this year following the Labour gove…

This week, we will be focusing on new planning guidance that’s been published by the housing ministry.

We will be discussing:

• The long-awaited new guidance on how new national planning policy on green …

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing the government’s plans to accelerate the involvement of statutory consultees, such as government agencies, in the planning process. 

We’ll examine why:

• Th…

This week, we will be focusing on a series of planning announcements made last week by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and housing secretary Angela Rayner. 

We'll be discussing: 

• Where the proposals fo…

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing whether, in the wake of claims about corruption in planning that have been widely rejected by the sector, the planning system is more compromised by dev…

This week, we will be discussing a series of planning announcements made by chancellor Rachel Reeves in an effort to boost economic growth. We're going to focus on:

• Her promise of a review of the stat…

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing:

• The new National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF) introduction of ‘golden rules’ that apply to developer contributions for development on green belt l…

In this episode, we discuss:

• What the secretary of state for housing, Angela Rayner, said about planning when she appeared before MPs on the housing, communities and local government select committee.
• …

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing our latest annual Planning Consultancy Market Report, which takes an in-depth and exclusive look at the planning consultancy market.

We'll be examining:

• T…

In this episode, we discuss:

• The publication of the government’s long-awaited devolution white paper, and the far-reaching planning changes proposed in it.
• A planning inspector cancelling a council’s l…

In this episode, we discuss the publication of the final version of the new Labour government’s revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

In particular, we're going to focus on the changes to…

In this episode, we discuss:

• The housing secretary this week announcing radical changes to planning committee decision-making;
• The prime minister making the government’s national housing target and a p…