Rolling posts on UK planning law, policy, appeals, plan examinations…
Election 2024: what’s *new* about New Towns?
What are Labour’s plans for new towns, and will they work?
The problem with “Investment Zones”
The big challenge facing the Government’s latest proposal for planning reform.
All change please: the new test at the heart of the “Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill”
The radical change which may spell the end of the presumption in favour of the development plan.
Levelling Down: notes from the party conferences
What we’ve learned from Brighton and Manchester about the future of planning reform.
“Tear it down and start again” - re-shuffles & the slow death of English planning reform
How we’ll know if the next minister is serious about planning reform.
Notes on planning reform: “the algorithm warmed us all up”
What today’s Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee report tells us about the future of planning reform.
The problem with “beauty”
Why beauty should be a job for poets, artists and philosophers. But not planners.
Don’t. Stop. Planning.
Why delaying plan-making because of the Planning White Paper is a very bad idea.
🏆 The #Planoraks 2020 🏆 - worst planning article of the year
The votes are in. But there can be only 1 winner.
Notes on planning reform: Follow the Money
How much planning reform do we get for £12 million?
“Robust, over-cluttered, under-resourced” - my favourite response to the Planning White Paper
The responses are in! Here’s my favourite answer to the Planning for the Future consultation.
The end of Neighbourhood Plans?
What's left for Neighbourhood Plans to do under the Planning White Paper?
In the zone #3 - the problem with “Protect” areas
What exactly are we supposed to be protecting?
Ask-a-planorak #7 - Steve Quartermain CBE
Steve Quartermain CBE, Chief Planner for over a decade, answers 10 questions on the Government’s proposals for planning reform.
The basics #9 - “Permission in Principle”
The state of the law on PiPs, and the Government’s proposals for reform.