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Legal Eagles
Episode 32
Planning law is a serious business. If the lawyers need calling in then typically something going very well needs safeguarding or something going ver…
5 years, 9 months ago
Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Freeholder
Episode 31
‘We want to ensure that we have a system in place that enables the creation of beautiful places that will stand the test of time’ states the 'Plannin…
5 years, 10 months ago
The High Street is dead, long live the High Street.
Episode 30
‘Vital and Viable’, the good practice guidance that accompanied the old PPG6 included a large survey of planning authorities. A fifth of town centres…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Numbers Game
Episode 29
“At the moment, some local authorities can duck potentially difficult decisions, because they are free to come up with their own methodology for calc…
5 years, 11 months ago
Places and Spaces
Episode 28
A place, in the urban context at least, is its buildings, the spaces around them and the hustle and bustle of people making their way betwixt and bet…
6 years ago
A Conversation with Chris Findley
Episode 27
In a piece written during a recent period of furlough leave Sam Stafford posited that a career is like climbing a mountain in that the real reward is…
6 years ago
Planning Reform Day
Episode 26
The decorations have been taken down, the uneaten party food has been frozen for next time and all of the summary emails from planning consultants ha…
6 years ago
Jet Zero
Episode 25
‘This moment gives us a much greater chance to be radical and to do things differently’, said the Prime Minister with typical understatement in his D…
6 years, 1 month ago
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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month ago