''The Planners Are Coming'' is a British

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television series broadcast on

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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

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had not been sought. Council planning departments featured in the programme include those of Braintree in Essex and Barking & Dagenham,

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and Brent in London. 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. The series has also been broadcast on

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in Australia. When the programme was first announced by the

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in June 2007, the working title was ''The Planners'', but this was later changed to ''The Planners Are Coming''. In 2013, a similar documentary series called ''

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'' aired on

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and in 2014 a new series called '' Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners'' began on BBC Two.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Planners Are Coming, The 2008 British television series debuts 2009 British television series endings BBC television documentaries Television series by Banijay Town and country planning in the United Kingdom

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