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Ep64: The implications of Angela Rayner’s appointment as shadow housing secretary, examining Michael Gove’s new planning ‘super squad’ to help struggling councils, plus other key news
Season 2003, Ep. 64
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The award-winning Planning team extracts the latest key planning news from the blizzard of new information in Room 106, the vault where all new planning information is gathered.
In this bonus edition, we discuss what the appointment of Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner as shadow levelling up secretary means for planning.
We also find out more about the crack team of skilled planners that housing secretary Michael Gove is assembling to deliver large-scale developments.
PLUS, we round up the other most important news stories of the past fortnight.
Key planning news, and why it’s important, brought to you by the team behind Planning magazine, the leading source of independent intelligence for planning professionals for 50 years. planningresource.co.uk @planningMag
Room 106 is the Professional Publishers Association’s Podcast of the Year 2023/24.
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