The government published the final version of its National Planning Policy Framework yesterday, marking the occasion with a ministerial statement from housing minister Matthew Pennycook and a site tour Cambridgeshire for his boss, Angela Rayner, and hers, Keir Starmer.

For anyone who was alive in July, the vast majority of what was included in the changes to the NPPF will not be particularly surprising. But after more than 10,000 responses in a months-long consultation, the government has made a few changes of note.