Podcast episode 114: NPPF 2023 Update

Podcast episode 114: NPPF 2023 Update - What Next?

It was a great privilege and a pleasure to be invited to contribute to this event in London last week.

It was over-subscribed so we arranged for it to be recorded event in order to share it as a Shades episode. It is available here, as well as Apple and Spotify.

Rupert kicked us off by reviewing the implications of the NPPF for housing delivery, taking in the standard method, the cities uplift and the changes around five and four year land supply.

Anjoli talked about the impact of the NPPF on plan-making, taking in Green Belt, transitional arrangements and the impact of this new version on plans that have paused, as well as soundness.

Meeta talked about the NPPF changes that relate to design and beauty, small sites and community-led housing, retirement housing and agricultural land.

Simon made the linkages between the NPPF and the Levelling Up & Regeneration Act, with his observations on what provisions of the latter we should pay the closest attention to.

I tried to put it all, and the Secretary of State's 'Falling back in love with the future' speech in a political context.

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