Room 106

Ep229: All the planning news from the Tory conference plus Pennycook highlights ‘universal tilt’ in new NPPF

Room 106

Show Notes

In this episode, we’ll be talking about:

All the planning news from the Conservative Party conference, including details of the Tories’ emerging vision of how they would change the planning system if they were in government. A letter to the Planning Inspectorate from the planning minister Matthew Pennycook highlighting what he calls the “universal tilt” in favour of permission in the new version of the National Planning Policy Framework. A council finding that four of its members broke its rules by leaking a confidential local plan report.

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