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DCOs, NPSs and NSIPs.
Episode 24
Will the Government's much vaunted radical reforms to the planning system allow Development Consent Orders (DCOs) to apply to large-scale, residentia…
5 years, 8 months ago
Crosstown Traffic
Episode 23
The need for people to travel and the way in which they can travel has changed dramatically in a short period of time and, early on during the Corona…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rules of Engagement
Episode 22
The grinding gears of the planning system need to be kept moving. On that most people can agree. Applying a little bit of lubricant within the bits o…
5 years, 8 months ago
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours
Episode 21
Where does the recent run of local plan failures at St Albans, Sevenoaks, Wealden and Chiltern & South Bucks leave the Duty to Cooperate (DtC)? As we…
5 years, 9 months ago
APC, easy as 1,2,3.
Episode 20
Sam Stafford, wary halfway through his career of becoming a world-weary, cynical member of the town planning establishment, seeks to recapture some o…
5 years, 9 months ago
Stay Alert > Keep Planning > Improve Lives
Episode 19
Sam Stafford gets some of the 50 Shades gang back together for the type of Friday afternoon, Adam Buxton-style ramblechat that would have taken place…
5 years, 10 months ago
The CaMKOx Arc. Behind the curve?
Episode 18
In a 2016 interim report on the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor, or the Arc, the National Infrastructure Commission identified the area as ha…
5 years, 10 months ago
The London Plan. Capital Punishment?
Episode 17
Is there any substance to Robert Jenrick’s criticism of Sadiq Khan’s London Plan or is it just the victim of some Punch and Judy-style, blue on red o…
5 years, 10 months ago
Green Belt. Sacred Cow?
Episode 16
'I began to see what a sacred cow the Green Belt has become' said Minister for Housing & Local Government Richard Crossman in 1964.
The Green Belt is…
5 years, 11 months ago
Planning and Coronavirus
Episode 15
Robert Jenrick set out on 12 March 2020 proposals “to bring Britain’s planning system into the 21st century as part of plans to get the country build…
6 years ago