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50 Shades of Planning
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Town and country planning is very much not a black and white endeavour. https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning
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Episode 150 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now.

The Amazing Technicolour Green Belt

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Keir Starmer orders planning bill rewrite in bid to get Budget boost
UK ministers working through weekend to agree amendments meant to speed up big infrastructure projects and housing schemes
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Green belt or grey belt row brewing over new homes
Two sites in Derbyshire highlight the issues emerging on the concept of grey belt development.
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Link: www.publicpractice.org.uk/reports/recr...
Recruitment & Skills Report 2025
This report presents Public Practice's findings on the skills, recruitment, and retention challenges facing local government in 2024–2025.
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Local Plan examinations: letter to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (October 2025)
This letter lays out the government’s expectations on the exercise of flexibility in the examination of local plans submitted within the current plan-making system.
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Council demolishes play area after noise complaints
Parents in a town in Derbyshire say their children are
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The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development
Despite the central government’s wish to get digging, a potentially lucrative gold mine remains stuck
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Link: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system
Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government
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Results from the UK Growth Survey 2025
We asked over 100 economists & policy experts for their views on the Government’s top priorities for growth.
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BigTrouble in Little Cheshire
Why Adlington New Town might not be all it seems to be
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Link: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
'New Zealand shows how UK can end housing crisis - we must fix fundamentals'
Empty words do not build homes. Supply does. That means freeing up land where people want to live.
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Link: www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Sadiq Khan considering slashing 35% affordable homes rule for new builds
Mayor warns requirement for 35% of new homes to be affordable has brought housebuilding in the capital to a standstill
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