Ep106: How the new standard method will affect councils' housing need levels and ministerial announcements on local plan preparation

Room 106

In this episode, we look in more detail at the government's big planning announcements last week.

We discuss:

• The councils that would see their housing need rise most under the government’s proposed new assessment method.
• The Planning Inspectorate warning the housing minister that his hard line on local plan examination delays will lead to more strategies being either recommended for withdrawal or found unsound.
• The deputy prime minister Angela Rayner telling councils to rework advanced plans that provide significantly fewer homes than the levels produced by her new local housing need method.
• Rayner recommitting the government to its 13-week target for ministerial planning decisions.

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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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