The West Midlands Problem (plus Grey Belt and some other stuff)
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The 50 Shades of Planning Podcast
Sam Stafford started writing the 50 Shades of Planning blog in 2012 and in 2019 turned it into a podcast. 50 Shades of Planning is about the foibles of the English planning system and it's a...
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What is really wrong with the Habitats Regulations?
DEFRA recently launched a consultation on significant changes to it’s guidance on how Habitat Regulations Assessments should be carried out,...
Some Things Just Take Time
Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Mike Kiely , Annie Gingell , Andrew...
New Towns: Practicalities & Placemaking
New Towns are back in the news because the Government has announced the first formal step in creating the next generation of them with the l...
All Around the World - The Netherlands
This is the third of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith . Paul put it to Sam Stafford that debat...
Appeal Ready
Sam Stafford was in Manchester last week and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Lisa Tye , Andrew Johnston and Lou...
Hitting the High Notes - Catriona Riddell
Strategic planning, as Sam Stafford said in the introduction to episode number 157, is back. That episode looked at what shape it is in righ...
We❤️Planning
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to record the first ‘catch up’-style episode with some of his friends worki...
How Does Bad Policy Get Made?
In October 2025 Sam Stafford came across a blog by Jack Airey , who is now a Director at Public First but was the Head of Planning at Policy...
The Return of Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is back. What do we know? We know that Policy PM1 of the revised draft NPPF anticipates the move towards national coverag...
🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2025🏆
This is the second of Sam Stafford's seasonal offerings which serve as a review of another exciting year in the fast-paced, ever-changing, r...
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄
This episode sees the return of the 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz. Sam Stafford got together with friends of podcast Mike Kie...
Discretion Advised
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friend of the podcast Charlotte Leach and new friends...
The Snagging List II
Empirical evidence is starting to emerge, as speculated upon earlier in the year, that there will indeed be a significant increase in the nu...
All Around the World - Australia
This is the second of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith . Paul put it to Sam Stafford that deba...
Planorama
In between movin' and shakin' in The Big Smoke recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to meet a few friends of the podcast at Soho Radio...
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 S...
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 ap...
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 pr...
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 , Andre...
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