They’re coming…. The draft Wales planning fee regulations have been laid before Senedd. Updates, including new fee rates and effective date to come when we know more. laiddocuments.senedd.wales/sub-ld17408-...

Planning for the 2026 RTPI ICN conference is already well underway. Catch up with @alyn.bsky.social and continuing network supporters Thomas Pearson and Mark Iverson JMW Solicitors today. Lovely lunch too.

Walking, learning and simply enjoying ‘Evolution and Change’ the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social ICN conference. A full house in Birmingham. Our best conference yet? Thanks to all for making it a truly fantastic event.

£1.65 for a first class postage stamp. Seems so ludicrously expensive on face value yet so ridiculously cheap for what it provides.

Another dry January done then. And February, March, April. May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Since 01/01/2015.

When you send client email about the Wrexham LDP and potential implications for a current planning application and all four recipients fire back ‘out of offices’.

Deck the halls with planning permissions Fa la la la la, la la la La

Ah yes, Emmett’s of Peasenhall and Craster Smokehouse orders done

Todays totally pointless box ticking comprises a green infrastructure statement for a planning application for roller shutter doors on a factory.

Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023. www.plplanning.co.uk/blog/2024/9/26/historic-environment-wales-act-2023

Welsh Government is consulting on requiring EV charging points in new and converted residential buildings and non residential buildings. www.gov.wales/sites/defaul...

New Welsh Gov Cabinet:
Huw Irranca-Davies- Dep FM & CabSec Climate Change & Rural Affairs.
Rebecca Evans- CabSec Economy, Energy and Planning.
Jayne Bryant- CabSec Housing & Local Government.

Interesting function split and potential refocus of planning/economic growth?

May be ‘en vacances’ but spoke at committee this pm remotely. Thrilled to secure resolution to grant outline permission for up to 17 dwellings on a site where client first submitted an application in Nov 2019. One dismissed appeal (with costs to appellant) later, got there.

Did you know both the Planning Inspectorate and Planning and Environment Decisions Wales [PEDW] publish their Inspector Training Manuals. Wales here www.gov.wales/atisn20269

Have started a list of proper pucker all singing (and some dancing) ICN (rtpi) planners. Let me know and I’ll add #rtpiicn.

This does have the feels of early twitter doesn’t it. How lovely.