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Rob Krzyszowski

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Personal account | Director of Planning & Building Standards, London Borough of Haringey | Chief Planner 🏛️ | Best Planning Authority 2024! 🏆 www.linkedin.com/in/robzowski

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jan 22

How Haringey transformed from being the 'worst planning authority in the country' to an award winner www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1903...

How a London borough transformed from being the ‘worst planning authority in the country’ to an award winner

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 4d

Barkers of Kensington

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Design Museum

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Olympia

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 8d

Come & work at one of the best planning authorities in the country on our emerging new Local Plan! Apply for this Principal Planning Officer (Policy) vacancy now jobs.haringey.gov.uk/jobs/princip...

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 10d

New Piccadilly Line trains bring tested - spotted in Hammersmith

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 13d

Interestingly the FAQs talk about "Neighbourhood Boards... with responsibility for developing their Regeneration Plan" although no mention of Neighbourhood Planning www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 13d

MHCLG has published a new "Pride in Place Strategy" which is quite wide-ranging - here are the key extracts I think most relevant to Local Planning Authorities www.gov.uk/government/p...

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 13d

Government announces 'Pride in Place' programme including the "Power to block unwanted shops: empowering councils in England to say no to new betting shops, vapes stores and fake barbers" www.gov.uk/government/n...

Communities to seize control over high streets and restore pride

Local communities will be handed new powers to revitalise their high streets and restore pride in their towns.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 15d

Planning Inspectorate has published helpful new Local Plans Pre-Examination Checklist - hopefully this sits nicely alongside the Planning Advisory Service's helpful toolkits too - a useful checklist for earlier stages of Local Plan production too e.g. Reg 18, Reg 19 etc www.gov.uk/government/p...

Local plans: pre-examination checklists

The pre-examination checklists are to help local planning authorities ensure their plan is “ready for examination” as referred to in section 20 of the 2004 Act.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 17d

Oxford Street - pedestrianised version - for the day

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 26d

I prefer my catchphrase of "Plan, Baby, Plan" but this'll do www.gov.uk/government/n...

Housing Secretary issues 'call to arms' to 'build, baby, build'

New Housing Secretary has issued a 'call to arms' to leading developers and housebuilders following a roundtable held this week.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · 28d

I'm speaking at #LREF2025 next week at Guildhall on "The Upper Lee Valley – How turbo charged industrial development is powering places into the future” panel, exploring how this vital industrial cluster can unlock new sites for homes, jobs, and inclusive growth www.lref.co.uk/register/

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm excited to be speaking at the Landmark Chambers Planning Conference 2025 'Shaping London's Future'. I'll be giving a view from London Borough of Haringey on the key planning reforms and capacity issues that LPAs are facing & what we're doing about it www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/events/landm...

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 29

MHCLG's Building Control Independent Panel has opened a Call for Evidence until 29 August which will be used to inform its recommendations to Government www.gov.uk/government/c...

Building Control Independent Panel - informing recommendations to government

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 24

Check out this very useful "Planning committee best practice self-assessment toolkit" published by the LGA Planning Advisory Service planningadvisor.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/t...

The PAS guide to running a good Planning Committee

Source of photograph: Shropshire Star, 2011 You know that things are not as good as they could be at planning committee, but you haven’t got the time to spend hours viewing other planning com…

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 11

And also the Building Safety Levy 'Guidance' has been published too www.gov.uk/guidance/bui...

Building Safety Levy: Guidance

This guidance explains the operation of the Building Safety Levy.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025 are here! The new Levy takes effect on 1 October 2026
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9...

The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025

These Regulations make provision for the imposition of a Building Safety Levy (“the levy”) by reference to building control applications. These Regulations provide for who is liable to pay the levy, h...

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pleased to be speaking at the Proptech Show 2025 about Haringey's digital planning. Looking forward to sharing insights and connecting with fellow leaders shaping the future of property technology and innovation. bit.ly/3XJxxmv #pts25 #proptechshow2025 #proptechshow #proptech #londonproptech

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jul 7

MHCLG has published a research report by AECOM about measuring and reducing embodied carbon in buildings - will this help shape future national planning policy & building regulations? www.gov.uk/government/p...

Consideration of embodied carbon in new buildings

Research report on the practical, technical and economic impacts of measuring and reducing embodied carbon in new buildings.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 26

The results of the GLA's Placeshaping Capacity Survey 2024 have been published. This looks at capacity & skills of Planning, Building Control, Design, Heritage, S106/CIL, Transport, Placemaking, Property, Capital Delivery, etc www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 25

Housing and growth threatened by council staff shortages
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Housing and growth threatened by council staff shortages | News, Press release | News | UNISON National

Councils must be able to recruit more planning staff if communities are to get the homes, schools and services they need.

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 24

At the BusinessLDN event tonight on "Supporting Local Planning Authority Resources in London" - great that the private sector is working on creative ways to support public sector resourcing

Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 24

👇 See this blog post about 1 of the most important projects in planning at the moment - setting a methodology for local planning application fee setting - for when the Planning & Infrastructure Bill gives Councils the power next year planningadvisor.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/l...

Localised fees setting – get involved with PAS

Linked to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill, we are working on a model to allow councils to set their own fees (if they want to) and to promote a way of thinking about what a good pl…

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 18

"Over 500,000 homes to be built through new National Housing Bank" www.gov.uk/government/n...

Over 500,000 homes to be built through new National Housing Bank

£16bn of new public investment will help build over 500,000 new homes, unlocking over £53bn of private investment, as part of the government’s Plan for Change

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Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social · Jun 18

Fascinating & important research from the University of Westminster on "reusing cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora". Just the photos of the case studies is really interesting in terms of repurposing historic buildings for a new use and communities moving-pictures.info/SITES-1

SITES — Moving Pictures

Sites: Home > Database > Case Study > MOVING PICTURESreusing cinemas as places of worship in the...

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