Episode 184 of the podcast is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms.
As you will be aware, planning fans, the previous Government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 introduced the legislative framework for a new system of local plan-making and in March this year the current Government introduced the regulations concerning this new regime.
The headline changes are that local authorities will be required to complete plans within a condensed 30-month period; conduct three public consultations rather than the two currently required; and pass through three mandatory gateway checks on the way.
As you may be less aware, 39 authorities, those that had submitted, but not adopted, a plan for examination on or before 12 March 2025 that proposed meeting less than 80% of local housing need, had to publish a Notice of Intention to commence plan-making by 30 June 2026 and will have to publish a Gateway 1 Self-Assessment by 31 October 2026.
Authorities not intending to submit a plan for examination under the existing system by 31 December 2026 must give Notice of Intention to commence plan-making by 31 December 2026 or by the time an adopted plan is 4 years and 8 months old, whichever is the latest, and then publish a Gateway 1 Self-Assessment by 30 April 2027 or by the time a plan is 5 years old, whichever is the latest.
It seemed high time then, I thought, that the podcast takes a look at the new local plan-making system, which it does in the episode by way of a conversation between old friend of the podcast Nicola Gooch and new friends of the podcast Mary Cook and Sarah Matile.
Nicola is a partner at Birketts, Mary is a consultant at Town Legal and Sarah is Planning Policy Manager at Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council.
In a conversation recorded online back in July they largely focused on the difference between the legacy and new regimes, but they also talked about the looming deadline for the submission of legacy plans and the influence of Mr Pennycook’s pragmatism letter to PINS, as well as NDMPS, LGR, EORs and Grey Belt.
50 Shades of Planning is the podcast by planners and for planners and so if you would like to use it as a platform for sharing anything you think that we need to be talking about then you are very welcome to get in touch with me via samstafford@hotmail.com or the 50 Shades WhatsApp Community.
As you will be aware, planning fans, the previous Government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 introduced the legislative framework for a new system of local plan-making and in March this year the current Government introduced the regulations concerning this new regime.
The headline changes are that local authorities will be required to complete plans within a condensed 30-month period; conduct three public consultations rather than the two currently required; and pass through three mandatory gateway checks on the way.
As you may be less aware, 39 authorities, those that had submitted, but not adopted, a plan for examination on or before 12 March 2025 that proposed meeting less than 80% of local housing need, had to publish a Notice of Intention to commence plan-making by 30 June 2026 and will have to publish a Gateway 1 Self-Assessment by 31 October 2026.
Authorities not intending to submit a plan for examination under the existing system by 31 December 2026 must give Notice of Intention to commence plan-making by 31 December 2026 or by the time an adopted plan is 4 years and 8 months old, whichever is the latest, and then publish a Gateway 1 Self-Assessment by 30 April 2027 or by the time a plan is 5 years old, whichever is the latest.
It seemed high time then, I thought, that the podcast takes a look at the new local plan-making system, which it does in the episode by way of a conversation between old friend of the podcast Nicola Gooch and new friends of the podcast Mary Cook and Sarah Matile.
Nicola is a partner at Birketts, Mary is a consultant at Town Legal and Sarah is Planning Policy Manager at Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council.
In a conversation recorded online back in July they largely focused on the difference between the legacy and new regimes, but they also talked about the looming deadline for the submission of legacy plans and the influence of Mr Pennycook’s pragmatism letter to PINS, as well as NDMPS, LGR, EORs and Grey Belt.
50 Shades of Planning is the podcast by planners and for planners and so if you would like to use it as a platform for sharing anything you think that we need to be talking about then you are very welcome to get in touch with me via samstafford@hotmail.com or the 50 Shades WhatsApp Community.
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