Issue Pil133 April-June 2025

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5 LEADERS
A mountain to climb; Ungumming planning; A bridge too few .PDF

7 Planning for the development of homes | Chris Benham

10 LEE MALLETT
BeFirst evolves .PDF

12 PAUL FINCH
Planning has yet to take off .PDF

OPINIONS
13 An alternative view on planning reform | Chris Hinchliff MP
14 The removal of 'beauty' from the NPPF | Katy Davis
15 Fixing planning boosts growth | Sam Dumitriu
16 The lessons from Mast Quay | Amardip Healy .PDF
18 Gateway 2 and the problem of time | Ian Fletcher .PDF
19 Reform of planning committees | Nick Diment
20 High street rental auctions | Simon Barry
21 BNG a year on | David Alborough
24 Assessing gross development value | Andrew Golland

28 BRIEFING
CLIPBOARD: Fast-tracking of consents; Online directory of digital planning services launched; It’s a gas; Another day, another tax on development

29 ?PILLO!
Raised planning fees ‘will push firms out of housebuilding’; Takeoff for Luton; Commercial property?; Labour strips environmental quangos of powers to delay housebuilding

30 PLANNING PERFORMANCE
Applications and Permissions down 7 per cent, residential applications down 10 per cent from the same quarter a year earlier .PDF

34 LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT FORUM
Grey Belt, LP&DF .PDF

35 AI summary
38 Grey belt policy | Lord Moylan .PDF & Michele Vas welcome from Dentons
42 The Government’s intentions for the planning system;
43 How might changes unblock planning? and Panel discussion
44 Subsidised affordable housing | Ben Clifford
46 biodiversity net gain | Nick White, Mark Topping, Shashin Mishra
51 Strategic planning and the London Plan | Tom Venables
53 Good growth? | Michael Edwards
54 The wind-up | Paul Finch

56 ANDREW ROGERS
A tale of two curtilages .PDF

57 FELICIE KRIKLER
Reflections on MIPIM

FEATURES
58 Light rail transit | Nicholas Falk and Reg Harman .PDF

58 Revitalising high streets | Anna Iceton and Rebecca Chaplin

64 Young People at the Heart of Planning | Jenny Wood .PDF

67 London priorities for a prosperous England | Lars Christian .PDF

70 investor focus in the housing sector | Robert Reeds .PDF

73 PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT REFERENCE GUIDE

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