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The Fast-Paced, Ever-Changing, Rock and Roll World of Town and Country Planning
Episode 14
2020 looks set to be another significant year for planning policy. Already it has seen the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’s final rep…
6 years, 1 month ago
How and Where Can and Should More Homes be Built?
Episode 13
Sam Stafford chats with John Myers (YIMBY Alliance), Barbara Weiss (Barbara Weiss Architects) and Matt Thomson (CPRE) about how to build more and bet…
6 years, 1 month ago
A Conversation with David Rudlin
Episode 12
Sam Stafford chats with David Rudlin, Principal and Director of URBED, about his book Climax City, co-authored with Shruti Humani, which is a critica…
6 years, 2 months ago
Reasons to be Cheerful
Episode 11
Is planning in England, as asserted by the Raynsford Review, really less effective than at any time in the post-war era? Chris Shepley, a former Chie…
6 years, 2 months ago
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄
Episode 10
Full of festive cheer (and sherry), Sam Stafford quizzes Greg Dickson, Paul Smith, David Diggle, Andrew Jalali, Vicky Payne and Tom Whitehead on some…
6 years, 3 months ago
How To Plan Strategically Without Strategic Planning
Episode 9
10 January 2020, as planners working in the West Midlands will know, is the date by which the 37,900 home shortfall identified in the Birmingham Deve…
6 years, 4 months ago
A Conversation with Bob Kerslake
Episode 8
Sam Stafford chats with The Right Honourable The Lord Kerslake, who, as former Chief Executive of Sheffield and Hounslow councils; Chief Executive of…
6 years, 5 months ago
Planning Committees - Cauldrons of Human Emotion
Episode 7
If you’re involved they’re terrible, but if you’re just observing they’re terrific. In this episode Sam Stafford and his guests Katie Dean and Mike O…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Data Day
Episode 6
Sam Stafford chats with Euan Mills of the Connected Places Catapult (https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/) about how digital innovation, urban data,…
6 years, 6 months ago
Trust Me, I'm A Planner.
Episode 5
Sam Stafford and his guests Vicky Payne and Paul Smith explore a possible link between the cinematic portrayal of property developers as wrong 'uns a…
6 years, 7 months ago