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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