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Planning Resources

The days of the planning magazine are long gone. Here are our favourite online resources: 

Latest News & Comment

Have We Got Planning News For You - light-hearted video podcasts by 5 barristers.

Planning Portal Professional - the Government’s Planning Portal

Planning Practice Guidance and NPPF - published by MHCLG

#Planoraks - Planning Barrister Zack Simons’ excellent and humourous blogs; I confess to being a fan.

The Planner - planning news by the Royal Town Planning Institute. Paywall for some (but not all) of the news, features and opinions.

Spatial information & mapping tools

Election Maps - definitive Ordnance Survey boundaries for local authorities, parishes, electoral divisions, wards, etc.

Green Infrastructure Map compiled by Natural England.

Historic maps from 1841 – 1991 at a range of scales, covering all parts of the UK (despite the website title, including England).

MAGIC Maps – DEFRA’s map with all the official designations you can think of and many others you didn’t know existed.

Planning Data Map compiled by DLUHC.

Road accident data – official record of road accidents recorded by the Department for Transport for checking around a development site.

Useful resources

Appeal Finder Blogs on a variety of topics by yours truly

Appeal % allowed by LPA and by Inspector for the previous year to 31st March

Appeals guidance on the .GOV website

Compare old and new NPPF - can also be used to compare any 2 documents you choose

Housing Delivery Test figures and Insider's Guide to the Housing Delivery Test

Housing needs figures by LPA based on new standard method w.e.f. 12th December 2024

Model conditions used by PINS

Net additional dwellings figures and graphs for every local planning authority, produced by DLUHC, up to 2022-23

Net additional dwellings latest figures downloadable in table 122, published 28/11/24 for 2023-24

Planning application timescales by LPA - percentage genuinely decided within 8 or 13 weeks, using DLUHC performance figures

Planning Geek - for information on the GPDO, use classes, planning glossary, national space standards, news and forum discussions

Statement of Common Ground PINS template and advice on drafting SoCG

The Planning Jungle (paywall: an annual subscription of £50 - £300 p.a.) - for most consolidated Regulations and for everything on the GPDO

Have you further suggestions to share? Just email Helen on info@appealfinder.co.uk with any useful websites.

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