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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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt)
Episode 123
When Sam Stafford first covered nutrient neutrality, in February 2021, he described the process of eutrophication as a bit like the podcast itself: a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Love Thy Neighbourhood Plan
Episode 122
What are we to make of neighbourhood planning? Friend of the podcast Ben Castell considers it a “grassroots planning revolution”. Perhaps less favour…
2 years ago
Grey Belt
Episode 121
Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Catriona Riddell, Shelly Rouse and Nicola Gooch …
2 years ago
A Hillside To Die On
Episode 120
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Greg Dickson and Claire Petricca-Riding.
Dur…
2 years, 1 month ago