Planning in London, Issue 136, Jan-Mar 2026

Issue 136 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been published, covering the period Jan-Mar 2026.  London Forum has a subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it.

A useful AI-generated summary can be downloaded (included in website searches).

Table of contents:

• Planning Enables; It Doesn’t Deliver — the editors’ critique of housing delivery failure.
• New Kinds of Suburbia — Mallett on suburban densification and design-led approaches.
• Key Opinion Pieces — covering the emergency measures package, Gateway 2 delays, viability, and 2026 predictions.
• Planning & Infrastructure Act and New NPPF — the major policy briefings.
• LP&DF December Meeting — forum discussions on placemaking, SME delivery, Camden High Street, and NDMPs.
• Features — bedroom bonanza/mansards, shared ownership, and imagination in place-making.
• Planning Performance — England’s latest application statistics.

The full journal is not available on the website. Selected excerpts are available here 

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