Ep102: Labour's historic election victory, its housing department appointments and early planning announcements

Room 106

This week, we’re focusing on Labour's seismic election victory the plethora of planning changes it announced almost straight away.

This includes:

• A series of planning announcements made by new chancellor Rachel Reeves in her speech on Monday morning;
• A change to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to remove what the government called the “absurd” de facto ban on onshore wind schemes;
• The appointment of a new housing secretary and two new housing department ministers;
• A flavour of some of the reaction to the general election result from the sector bodies.

PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past seven days.

Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for more than 50 years. Find the latest planning news at planningresource.co.uk and @planningMag

Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.

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