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The focus remains on evidence\u2011base refinement, infrastructure alignment, and ensuring policies reflect updated national guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities are particularly focused on housing need calculations, employment land strategies, and the integration of climate\u2011related policies. Skills shortages persist in policy teams, especially for officers with experience drafting strategic policies and coordinating consultation programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recruitment market continues to favour candidates with strong analytical backgrounds and familiarity with viability, infrastructure planning, and cross\u2011boundary coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Plan progress accelerates as authorities push towards examination milestones Local Plan teams are working intensively as multiple authorities aim to progress towards Regulation 19 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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