Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Not the NPPF
Episode 133
Last week, on NPPF deadline day, Sam Stafford was in Manchester and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Katie Wray, David Di…
1 year, 5 months ago
The YIMBY Crowd
Episode 132
"‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour YIMBYs are set to raise the roof" was the title of a piece in the Observer ahead of the Labour Party Con…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Masterplan
Episode 131
If you have listened to episodes 125 and 128 you will know Sam Stafford sought to cover, pre-publication, what could and should be in the new version…
1 year, 6 months ago
Hitting the High Notes - Mike Best
Episode 130
In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions o…
1 year, 6 months ago
To Rebuild or to Retrofit?
Episode 129
To rebuild or to retrofit? That is the question posed by former Secretary of State Michael Gove’s intervention in planning applications for the redev…
1 year, 7 months ago
Labour of Love
Episode 128
Sam Stafford has mentioned previously that the podcast would consider the new Government’s reform agenda and this is an attempt at doing so. The spec…
1 year, 7 months ago
Let's Get Digital
Episode 127
Long-serving Listeners might recall that for Episode 6 of 50 Shades of Planning Sam Stafford published a chat with Euan Mills, then of the Connected …
1 year, 8 months ago
Housing by Popular Demand
Episode 126
One of the new Labour Government’s manifesto pledges is the construction of 1.5 million new homes between now and the end of this new parliament.
“We…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Do We Want?
Episode 125
With a General Election now imminent Sam Stafford thought that it might be interesting to try to compare what is being offered by the main political …
1 year, 9 months ago
Efficiency Savings
Episode 124
In February 2024 Planning published a special report by Joey Gardiner entitled ‘how cost-saving consultants disrupted council planning services’.
Ca…
1 year, 9 months ago