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50 Shades of Planning
50 Shades of Planning is Sam Stafford’s attempt to explore the foibles of the English planning system and it's aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different experiences and perspectives. 50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting Th...
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The Amazing Technicolour Green Belt
Charles Goode hosted an event in Birmingham in September 2025 to mark the launch of his book, “The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems” (l...
Who's In Control
Wrexham Council will defend its opposition to plans for 600 homes on land south of Holt Road against the advice of planning officers.
The applic...
Hitting the High Notes - Alice Lester
This is the fourteenth episode in Sam Stafford's Hitting the High Notes series.
If you have not listened to one of these before the basic propos...
What's Going On?
Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Nicola Gooch, Catriona Riddell, Andrew Taylor, An...
All Around The World - USA
This is the first of a new series of episodes being led by Paul Smith, who regular 50 Shades listeners will know is the Managing Director at the Strat...
New politics, New Towns and new books
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Ian Wray, Claire Petricca-Riding and Davi...
Hitting the High Notes - Tim Waring
This episode sees the welcome return of the Hitting the High Notes series, the basic proposition of which is that Sam Stafford chats to preeminent fig...
The Snagging List
By common consensus there will a considerable increase in the submission of planning applications this year, certainly applications for residential de...
All Builders Big and Small
It has been another exciting few weeks in the fast-paced, ever-changing rock and roll world of town and country planning...
“Thousands of new ho...
Grey Belt: policy guidance and appeals
For how long Grey Belt remains part of the policy landscape time will tell, but in the here and now it represents very welcome political recognition t...
A conversation with Michael Gove
This episode is a conversation between Sam Stafford and former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Rt Hon. the Lord Gove...
Pre-Apps, Puddles and NDMPs
When in Manchester recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast David Diggle, Paul Smith, Rebecca Coley and Clai...
The BNG
Over a year on from it becoming mandatory, what is to be made of BNG?
On the one hand, according to an open letter signed by a 40-strong coaliti...
If I Ruled the World
Sam Stafford was down in The Big Smoke recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Matthew Spry, Simon Ricketts, Hana Lo...
Back in Black
The fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning has been especially fast-paced, ever-changing and rock and roll of lat...
A Brief History of Planning 2010-2024
Back in March 2024 friend of the podcast Catriona Riddell gave a lecture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning that she called ‘Strategic Planning in E...
100 Days of Labour
Saturday 12 October 2024 marks 100 days of the new Labour Government.
In anticipation of this milestone Landmark Chambers and Town Legal hosted...
Not the NPPF
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 Dig...
The YIMBY Crowd
"‘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 Conf...
The Masterplan
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...
Hitting the High Notes - Mike Best
In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or...
To Rebuild or to Retrofit?
To rebuild or to retrofit? That is the question posed by former Secretary of State Michael Gove’s intervention in planning applications for the redeve...
Labour of Love
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 speci...
Let's Get Digital
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 P...
Housing by Popular Demand
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.
What do we want?
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 p...
Efficiency Savings
In February 2024 Planning published a special report by Joey Gardiner entitled ‘how cost-saving consultants disrupted council planning services’.
Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt)
When Sam Stafford first covered nutrient neutrality, in February 2021, he described the process of eutrophication as a bit like the podcast itself: a...
Love Thy Neighbourhood Plan
What are we to make of neighbourhood planning? Friend of the podcast Ben Castell considers it a “grassroots planning revolution”. Perhaps less favoura...
Grey Belt
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 a...
A Hillside to die on
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Greg Dickson and Claire Petricca-Riding.
Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby
In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or...
Banishing Boxland
The Prime Minister recently announced plans to "turbocharge" development within England's largest towns and cities to mark a Government consultation o...
Capturing the Zeitgeist
This episode is a ramblechat that Sam Stafford recorded in London with friends of the podcast Hashi Mohamed, Simon Ricketts, Nicola Gooch and Andrew T...
Critical Infrastructure
Building GP surgeries, schools and roads is not just difficult it is so difficult, according to no less of an expert on such matters than the Prime Mi...
Hitting the High Notes - Simon Ricketts
This episode is another in the Hitting The High Notes series.
If you have not listened to one before the basic proposition is that Sam Stafford...
NPPF 2023 Update - What Next?
At the kind invitation of Landmark Chambers and Town Legal, Sam Stafford was in London this week to contribute to a seminar on the NPPF update, which,...
🏆The #Planaraks Awards 2023🏆
Hopefully everybody involved in the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country has had a restful Christmas and have managed to...
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London🤶🏻
Well Planning Reform Day finally arrived, just in time for the profession to be able to digest a cavalcade of announcements over Christmas, but not in...
☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🎄
So it is Christmas and, as Sam Stafford was asked in his appraisal, what have you done?
Another year over and a new one just begun.
If you...