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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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 9 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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…
7 years ago
A Conversation with Sean Anstee
Episode 4
Sam Stafford chats with Sean Anstee CBE about the interaction of politics and planning from the point of view of a ward councillor, Council Leader an…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Need for Speed
Episode 3
Sam Stafford and his guests Vicky Payne and Paul Smith discuss the forthcoming 'Accelerated Planning' Green Paper and swap holiday stories.
7 years, 2 months ago