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We Can't Stop Planning
Episode 181
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Lisa Tye, Shaun Knights and Jaimie Fergu…
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Episode 180
The basis of this episode was a series of posts Sam Stafford spotted that Nick Cuff at Urban Sketch had shared on his Prop Views blog about the Parkh…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why do places look the way they do?
Episode 179
Sam Stafford was at a symposium organised by Create Streets at Hatfield House in June last year called ‘Building for generations’. All of the present…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Vibes and Stuff
Episode 178
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity whilst there to catch up with old friend of the podcast Myles Wild Smith and new fri…
1 month ago
Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield
Episode 177
This is another episode in the Hitting the High Notes series, which, if you have not listened to one before, is town planning's equivalent, nee rip o…
1 month, 1 week ago
Emerging Planners
Episode 176
A couple of months ago Sam Stafford saw that Shaun Knights at Preston City Council and national vice chair of the Young Planning Officers Society (PO…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Meet the MPs - Lib Dems
Episode 175
The role of local councillors in the planning system has been a familiar topic of conversation on the podcast in the context of, for example, overtur…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Red Hot Planning Chat
Episode 174
Sam Stafford was in London recently and whilst there caught up with friends of the podcast Hana Loftus, Mike Kiely, Nicola Gooch, Simon Ricketts and …
2 months ago
All Around the World - New Zealand
Episode 173
This is the fourth of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith.
Paul put it to Sam Stafford that debates about …
2 months, 1 week ago
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Soulsby
Episode 172
Sam Stafford was invited to a ProCon Leicestershire event in Leicester in October 2025 and also on the panel that evening was his old friend Grant Bu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago