City Minutes: The Croydon planning experiment

Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Analyst Maurice Lange as well as Alison Coutinho (Mace Consult) and Guy Rochez (Town) who both worked for Croydon council between 2019 and 2022 when they were designing and implementing a new planning strategy to build more homes in the borough. Building off our recent research into the experiment, Croydon calling: Lessons on rules-based planning, they discuss what made the experiment successful as well as lessons learned.

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City Minutes: The Croydon planning experiment is an episode from Centre for Cities by Centre for Cities.

This episode is 61:20 long.

This episode was published on Mar 26, 2026.

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