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Podcasts The Planning, Environment & Property Podcast

Environment Planning

A short history of short cuts in the planning system

7th October 2020

In this podcast, Richard Harwood QC looks at the numerous ways of obtaining planning consent without making a planning application to the local authority and asks, how far have development orders and zoning been used?

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