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Planning and Compulsory Purchase Webinar Series 2026
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Development Constraints in 2026
This webinar was recorded on 6 October 2026
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Covering a range of topical issues led by our team of planning and compulsory purchase specialists.
Development Constraints in 2026
Our third quarterly webinar in our 2026 Planning and Compulsory Purchase webinar series focused on barriers to the consenting and delivery of schemes and the measures that can be put in place to mitigate these.
Sarah Sutherland chaired the webinar and was joined by Cathryn Tracey, Daniel Whittle and Douglas Haycock. They covered key issues relating to town and village greens, common land, open space, the protected landscapes duty and assets of community value.
We also wanted to take this opportunity to update you on a very recent development with TVGs. Cathryn ran a poll about what types of land have been registered as a TVG including a tidal beach, golf course, grass meadow with PROW and an area of working port. The answer up until the end of September 2026 was that a tidal beach could, in principle, be registered but had not been. That position has now changed as a 100-metre stretch of the beach extending from King’s Gap Slipway to the Hoylake Lifeboat Station out toward the sea was registered as a TVG on 1 October 2026 by Wirral Council’s planning committee after an independent inspector’s recommendations. This highlights that the scope of TVGs continues to widen and is by no means limited to the traditional village green.
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NSIP/DCO Consultation – the New World
This webinar formed part of our 2026 Planning and Compulsory Purchase webinar series. 24 July 2026 was a landmark date for the DCO regime, with the statutory requirement for pre-application consultation falling away.
Sarah Sutherland chaired the webinar and Julian Boswall and colleagues discussed the key themes arising from the consultation and other changes to the DCO process.
This has been a central feature of the DCO regime and its removal opens up flexibility and opportunity for promoters in their approach to consultation. New strategies will need to be tailored to project circumstances and be mindful of parallel EIA workstreams and landowner engagement for compulsory acquisition purposes.
Watch the webinarOverlapping consents
In the second webinar of our 2026 Planning and Compulsory Purchase webinar series, our team focussed on overlapping consents.
Our hosts covered the topic in three different contexts: overlapping planning permissions, overlapping DCOs and overlapping DCOs and planning permissions. They also explained the difficulties that can arise in the scenarios, and strategies for de-risking and resolving these, with reference to caselaw and recent experience.
Scottish Planning: Law and policy picks for 2026
For the first webinar in our 2026 Planning and Compulsory Purchase series, we focussed on the latest law and policy developments relevant to planning and development in Scotland.
Our team outlined the key recent legal and policy changes with a focus on energy development including the Raeshaw judgment, current requirements relating to biodiversity and the environment and proposed CPO reforms.
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