The Planners Are Coming

The Planners Are Coming is a British fly on the wall documentary television series broadcast on BBC One in 2008 and 2009. It follows council Planning Officers and Enforcement Officers as they dealt with planning applications and enforced planning regulations in cases where planning permission had not been sought.[1]

The Planners Are Coming
GenreDocumentary
Narrated byTimothy Spall
Theme music composerSimon Russell
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
Production locationsLondon and Essex, United Kingdom
Running time30 minutes
Production companyIWC Media
Release
Original networkBBC One
Picture format16:9
Original release11 September 2008 (2008-09-11) –
14 April 2009 (2009-04-14)
Chronology
Related showsPermission Impossible: Britain's Planners (2014)
The Planners (2013)
External links
Website

Council planning departments featured in the programme include those of Braintree in Essex and Barking & Dagenham, Barnet and Brent in London.[2]

In 2008, the first four episodes were shown in an 8pm slot, with the remaining four episodes airing in 2009 at the later time of 10:35pm.[3] The series has also been broadcast on The LifeStyle Channel in Australia.[4]

When the programme was first announced by the BBC in June 2007, the working title was The Planners,[5] but this was later changed to The Planners Are Coming. In 2013, a similar documentary series called The Planners aired on BBC Two and in 2014 a new series called Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners began on BBC Two.

Episodes
# Title Original air date
1
"Subject To Approval"
11 September 2008
2
"Garden Designs"
25 September 2008
3
"Planning Police"
4 October 2008
4
"Direct Action"
23 October 2008
Break in schedule
5
"Not in My Backyard"
24 March 2009
6
"How Not to Build"
31 March 2009
7
"Permission Impossible"
7 April 2009
8
"Extension Nightmares"
14 April 2009

See also

References
  1. "IWC Media - The Planners Are Coming". IWC Media.
  2. "BBC One - The Planners Are Coming". BBC Programmes.
  3. "The Planners Are Coming returns". Planning Resource. 20 March 2009.
  4. "The Planners Are Coming". LifeStyle Channel.
  5. "BBC One commissions The Planners". BBC Press Office. 1 June 2007.
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