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What Does a Good Local Plan Look Like?
Episode 86
Local plan-making is in something of a crisis. Lichfields reported in April 2022 on the 11 local plans that had at that time been overtly delayed, pa…
3 years, 8 months ago
More Homes. Better Places. So Far As Possible.
Episode 85
It will not have escaped the attention of regular 50 Shades listeners that a consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)…
3 years, 9 months ago
🏆 The #Planoraks Awards 2022 🏆
Episode 84
Even by the standards of the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning 2022 has been quite a year. Who better to re…
3 years, 9 months ago
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🤶🏻
Episode 83
It’s cold, dark and miserable and, alas, there is little in Michael Gove’s recent Written Ministerial Statement to warm the cockles of a planner’s he…
3 years, 10 months ago
Call For Evidence - Life on the Front Line II
Episode 82
It was about a year ago that Catriona Riddell first wrote in Planning magazine about low morale in local planning authorities, which Catriona, Peter …
3 years, 10 months ago
🎄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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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…
4 years 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…
4 years ago