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Annually produced references guide focussing on key planning sectors
Each of the guides in this section consider the policy, legal, demographic and social issues driving the performance of planners in the sector. Readers will also find best practice case studies and the details of key references sources made available during the year of publication.
Topical reports and discussion documents
Here’s where you can access the best of the reports and case studies published within the planning sector, as filtered and curated by The Planner team. The original research work that often goes on to provide the starting point for our features can be accessed here.
A daily feed of important legal cases and planning appeal decisions
Readers can quickly avail themselves of the most important and interesting decisions, typically posted to this section within a day of their publication. You can expect a concise explanation of the context and the reasons for the decisions, as well as a direct link to the relevant planning appeal decision letter.
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Planner editors and specialists come together to discuss the topics of the day in our webinars, and you’re invited to listen on demand to the hour-long events. (Note - you’ll be asked to register before getting to hear the content).
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08.01.2021Decision articleaffordable housing, ancient woodland, East of England, Housing, housing land supply, spatial planning
An inspector has approved plans to build 99 homes on greenfield land in Essex, citing the council’s ‘materially worsening’ housing supply situation and ‘...
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08.01.2021Decision article
Plans for live music at an ‘outdoor pub’ in the Devon village of Westward Ho! have been blocked by an inspector, who noted that noise mitigation measures...
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08.01.2021Decision article
Plans for a miniature railway in Cornwall can go ahead despite conflict with local landscape policy, an inspector has ruled, after the scheme’s economic,...
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08.01.2021Decision articleadult gaming centre, Business & Enterprise, Regeneration, Regeneration, South East, town centre, vitality
An inspector has allowed plans to convert a former betting shop in Luton town centre into an adult gaming centre, commenting that such uses are ‘an...
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18.12.2020Decision article
An inspector has quashed enforcement action against a hotel extension scheme that crossed into another council’s jurisdiction, ruling that upholding the...
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18.12.2020Decision article
An inspector has granted personal permission for a Holbeach couple to keep up to 10 dogs at their home contrary to case law, citing the appellant’s wife’s...
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18.12.2020Decision article
Plans to open up the use of a fishery’s private restaurant to anglers’ family members would be unenforceable and would render the business inappropriate...
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18.12.2020Decision article
A not-for-profit co-housing project at a post-war military camp in Staffordshire that would have involved the conversion of some of the site’s historic...
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18.12.2020Decision articleemerging plan, Housing, Infrastructure - Transport, section 106, South East, Sustainability, traffic congestion
An inspector has granted outline permission for 157 homes near Aylesbury despite conflict with an emerging neighbourhood plan, ruling that the scheme’s...
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18.12.2020Decision article
A historic shooting club in Maidenhead that was forced to vacate its home of 50 years to make way for a new school has had its relocation plans refused by...
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