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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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 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…
6 years, 3 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…
6 years, 3 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…
6 years, 4 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…
6 years, 4 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…
6 years, 4 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…
6 years, 5 months ago