Room 106

Ep107: Why a council is investing £1m in its planning service and how the NPPF revisions would change housing need assessments

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Episode notes

In this Deep Dive edition, we examine:


  • How and why a unitary authority is making an unusually big investment in its planning service;
  • How the proposed National Planning Policy Framework revisions would change local housing need assessment, and what this might mean for planners.


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Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.



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