The Planners Are Coming is a British fly on the wall documentary television series broadcast on BBC One in 2008 and 2009.
[1] Council planning departments featured in the programme include those of Braintree in Essex and Barking & Dagenham, Barnet and Brent in London.
[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.