Ep55: When we can expect the government’s national planning policy revisions to eventually appear, why a parliamentary committee thinks the revisions would put the government’s annual 300,000-home target out of reach, and much more

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In this episode:

• Housing secretary Michael Gove has confirmed that the NPPF revisions will not appear until at least September – we look at when they are likely to finally appear. 
• An influential parliamentary committee has warned that the government’s 300,000-home a year housebuilding target would be ‘impossible to achieve’ under its proposed NPPF changes – we explain how it came to that conclusion.
• The government’s new infrastructure levy is intended to replace existing methods of securing money from developers to pay for infrastructure and affordable housing. Ministers have now said councils will be able to require some of the contributions to be paid in-kind – we explain the details.

PLUS, we round up the most important news stories of the past fortnight.

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly. 

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