Ep59: Why development that leaves buildings’ exteriors unchanged can still harm an area’s character, a new government tool for calculating housebuilding’s impact on school provision, plus other key news

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 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag

In this episode we discuss:

• The implications of a court ruling that a development that does not materially change a building’s exterior can still harm an area’s ‘character and appearance’.
• How a new government ‘dashboard’ is intended to help council planners estimate school pupil demand from new housing 
• And how worried should councils be about the housing minister’s warning that delaying their local plans “will not end well for them”.

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

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

A transcript of the podcast will be available to download here shortly.

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