Ep68: How the Levelling Up Act will affect planning, and how to prepare for biodiversity net gain

In this bonus edition we discuss:

• The key changes that the Levelling Up Act, which gained royal assent last week, is due to make to the planning system.
• How developers and councils can best use the extra time they have been given to prepare for the new rules requiring development to boost biodiversity.
• How well prepared the sector is for biodiversity net gain, and how confident developers are that the system and market will be ready for this to work in January.

PLUS, we round up the key news stories from the past seven days.

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

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

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