The increasing attention being paid to time and temporalities in planning is now significant (Dobson and Parker, 2024; 2025; Jensen et al, 2025; Hutter and Wiechmann, 2022; Lennon and Tubridy, 2022; Laurian and Inch, 2019) and existing and emerging scholarship indicates the multiple possible avenues for research on time and temporalities in planning in Europe and beyond. Drawing on work that reviews and critiques time and its use in planning (Parker and Dobson, 2026 forthcoming; Dobson and Parker, 2024), the paper reflects on six identified modalities or themes of time and the multiple temporalities involved in planning. One important aspect of this research agenda is bringing time back into centre stage in the politics of planning and place, given that practices involving the manipulation of time for planning and urban governance cut across territories and demonstrate how governmental priorities necessitate changes to systems and policy or processes. Such understanding can also reveal how timing, speed or squeezes of process may marginalise some voices or issues, as well as limit the event horizon for planning in the face of long-term challenges. When positioned amongst pre-existing literature on time and planning, the six perceptible modalities presented are active ways of shaping or using time in planning research and practice. These groupings function as a useful framework for giving shape to the development of planning theory and research agendas and further exploration of the emerging ‘temporal turn’ in planning studies (Dobson and Parker, 2024; Wiechman and Hutter, 2024).