Rob Krzyszowski

🦋🦋🦋 My last tweet, for obvious reasons. Follow me on Bluesky where I've been for the last 12 months 🦋🦋🦋 bsky.app/profile/robzow…

Pathways To Planning is ran by @LGAcomms @pas_team to recruit grads to LPA roles whilst studying a planning masters. It was a delight to present on Haringey's experience in Cohort 1 with our trainee, Sion. Also great to hear from Nottingham & Maidstone too! @rouse_shelly

Chairing a meeting on low carbon development at @londoncouncils new office - lots of great work going on across the boroughs

Planning fees & resources: - "introduce a power for LPAs to be able to set their own fees". - "they will have to consult and publish their schedule of fees" - "government will continue to investigate ways to better resource other areas of planning" gov.uk/government/con…

Increased planning fees for: - prior approvals - discharge of conditions - new banded fee structure for S73 applications to reflect different development types gov.uk/government/con…

Also lost amongst the NPPF announcements is update on planning application fees "government intends to bring forward regulations to implement the increase of householder application fees at the earliest opportunity" gov.uk/government/con…

Lost amongst the NPPF announcements is the Govt's response to the summer consultation which includes a helpful flowchart on Local Plan transitional arrangements gov.uk/government/con…

Devolution White Paper is essential reading for anyone interested in future of local govt "Councils are the foundation of our state – critical to driving growth, delivering and reforming the local public services... and to our democratic system..." gov.uk/government/pub…

Devolution White Paper - good to see London mentioned a lot - "the government will work with the Mayor of London to compare the powers and policy approaches of other global city authorities" gov.uk/government/pub…

Devolution White Paper "a universal system of strategic planning within the next 5 years. The model that is proposed is the SDS, which is well established in London, the London Plan having been produced and continually reviewed over 20 years" gov.uk/government/pub…

Planning Reform Working Paper on Development & Nature Recovery "These proposals are not expected to have any substantive impact on the implementation of mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)" gov.uk/government/pub…

More planning reform! Working Paper on Development & Nature Recovery. Here's the press release... gov.uk/government/new…

***ALL*** Local Planning Authorities must produce an updated Local Development Scheme (LDS) for their Local Plan by 6 March 2025. This is a big deal and a tight timetable - LDSs usually have to be approved by a Cabinet decision #section" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/guidance/plann…

My reading of the change in definition of "gypsies & travellers" in the updated Planning Policy for Travellers Sites (PPTS) #NPPF gov.uk/government/pub…

Letter from Matthew Pennycook MP @mtpennycook to @RTPIPlanners "enormous respect for the planning profession. The perseverance with which I have seen local authority planners shape and build communities in their local areas is truly admirable" rtpi.org.uk/news/2024/dece…

New National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) published gov.uk/government/pub…

MHCLG: Planning overhaul to reach 1.5 million new homes gov.uk/government/new…

@robzowski fully agree. Shades of grey rather than black and white. Feel it is also down to the quality of the plans policies and the efficacy of sustainability assessments t make sure there are NOT policy contradictions.

Modernising Planning Committees: Come and look at Haringey! Our Planning Service Peer Challenge by the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) said our Committee is "a very good example of how public facing planning committees are run" new.haringey.gov.uk/news/20240311/…

Modernising planning committees: Mandatory members training & certification - Perhaps this could be done along a national framework, 'train the trainers' for LPA officers to confirm certification locally, a bit like Carbon Literacy certification etc gov.uk/government/pub…