Pete Lloyd

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.

You would make a great insta poster. Even some planners there

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.

Maybe at low cost they get purchased, pdf’s and shared?

£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.

Very hearty.

Looks more upturned funnel Mary

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’.

@maryindevon.bsky.social alternatively ‘I was unoccupied but hadn’t abandoned hope’ but maybe that’s a little niche

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

Which January?

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.

RAMS and reporting requested yesterday for removal of this very urban cafe door "just in case" habitat for nesting birds/bats. The balance is tilting too far

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.

Never

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Chris - I reckon (in Wales at least). £50K is a fairly basic cost. amazing how stuff adds up.

Planning Inspector training manual | GOV.WALES A copy the Inspector training manual for Planning Inspectors.

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

Finger in air 50k = rough and that’s low if ‘hidden’ other costs to get to that (SI, drainage/SAB, SAP/energy)

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.