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🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London☃️
Episode 81
It’s cold, wet and miserable and, alas, there is little in Michael Gove’s recent Written Ministerial Statement to warm the cockles of a planner’s hea…
3 years, 8 months ago
Catch Up
Episode 80
This is an old skool, Adam Buxton-style ramble chat 50 Shades episode in which Sam Stafford fills his lunch hour with what he enjoys most: talking ab…
3 years, 9 months ago
What Town Planners Do
Episode 79
Planning is rarely out of the news these days, certainly in England. It gets mentioned in speeches by party leaders, it garners headlines in the nati…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Home of One's Own
Episode 78
This episode is published with thanks to Simon Ricketts and his Planning Law Unplanned Clubhouse forum. Simon recently had a Clubhouse chat with Hash…
3 years, 10 months ago
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Dixon
Episode 77
Hitting The High Notes is town planning’s equivalent of Desert Island Discs. In these episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planni…
3 years, 11 months ago
A Stimulating Growth Conversation
Episode 76
It will not have gone unnoticed that the Government published a 'Growth Plan' on Friday 23 September 2022 with implications for the Development Conse…
3 years, 11 months ago
Neutral Impact II
Episode 75
When Sam Stafford introduced Episode 38 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast on nutrient neutrality he described the topic of eutrophication as a bit…
3 years, 11 months ago
An Esoteric Discussion about the Planning System
Episode 74
Sam Stafford revisits the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill with regular 50 Shades contributors Claire Petricca-Riding, Vicky Payne and Paul Smith. Th…
4 years ago
Housing People
Episode 73
Housing, 50 Shades listeners, will know, is slap bang in the middle of the intersection between planning and politics and nothing offers both the ill…
4 years, 1 month ago
A Gentle Conversation about Density
Episode 72
Where should we build 300,000 new homes every year?
We could build tall buildings, which can have transformative effects on city centres and their sk…
4 years, 1 month ago