Ep120: The fall-out from the housing secretary's last-minute calling in of plans for an 8,400-home garden village

Room 106

In this issue, we will be discussing the following stories and asking whether they show a toughening of the government’s line against local authorities that it believes to be resisting development:

• Housing secretary Angela Rayner calling in plans for an 8,400-home garden village in Kent just three hours before the council was due to consider it;
• An inspector allowing up to 1,000 homes on green belt land in Essex on the basis of the council’s ‘extremely poor’ housing delivery record;
• Other inspectors cancelling examination hearings into Shropshire Council’s local plan after raising "significant" concerns about the strategy’s soundness.

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Room 106 was the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24. It was also highly commended in the Best Use of Audio category in the Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards 2024.

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