Ep21: Liz Truss’s planning priorities, how a councillor ‘brought his council into disrepute’, and the legal advice that led a council to drop its defence of a 900-home planning refusal

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In this episode we’ll explore:

• What Liz Truss’s premiership means for planning: her planning priorities, how quickly her government will act on them, and the implications of the leadership change for the Johnson-era reform programme
• How an appeal against the refusal of 900 homes led to a council’s lawyers advising it that they cannot “defend the indefensible”
• What was behind a ruling that found an elected member-cum-public affairs consultant had “brought his council into disrepute” 
• What led up to another councillor being removed from a planning committee for “passing a document not part of the planning papers” to colleagues

PLUS, in our readers’ choice section, we cover a report that a man is being evicted from his shipping container home of 30 years because it did not have planning permission

By the end of the show, you should know enough to cope with any awkward questions from your boss. 

A transcript of the podcast is available to download from Planning's website here.

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