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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...
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Mike Best , Kathryn Ventham and Mic...
DEFRA recently launched a consultation on significant changes to it’s guidance on how Habitat Regulations Assessments should be carried out,...
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 are back in the news because the Government has announced the first formal step in creating the next generation of them with the l...
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...
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...
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...
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to record the first ‘catch up’-style episode with some of his friends worki...
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...
Strategic planning is back. What do we know? We know that Policy PM1 of the revised draft NPPF anticipates the move towards national coverag...
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...
This episode sees the return of the 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz. Sam Stafford got together with friends of podcast Mike Kie...
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friend of the podcast Charlotte Leach and new friends...
Empirical evidence is starting to emerge, as speculated upon earlier in the year, that there will indeed be a significant increase in the nu...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Nicola Gooch , Catriona Riddell , Andre...
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 a...
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Ian Wray , Claire Petricca-Ridi...
This episode sees the welcome return of the Hitting the High Notes series, the basic proposition of which is that Sam Stafford chats to pree...
By common consensus there will a considerable increase in the submission of planning applications this year, certainly applications for resi...
It has been another exciting few weeks in the fast-paced, ever-changing rock and roll world of town and country planning... “Thousands of ne...
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 rec...
This episode is a conversation between Sam Stafford and former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Rt Hon. the...
When in Manchester recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast David Diggle , Paul Smith , Rebecca Co...
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 coa...
Sam Stafford was down in The Big Smoke recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Matthew Spry , Simon Ricket...
The fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning has been especially fast-paced, ever-changing and rock and r...
Back in March 2024 friend of the podcast Catriona Riddell gave a lecture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning that she called ‘Strategic Pla...
Saturday 12 October 2024 marks 100 days of the new Labour Government. In anticipation of this milestone Landmark Chambers and Town Legal hos...
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...
"‘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 P...
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 ne...
In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning perm...
To rebuild or to retrofit? That is the question posed by former Secretary of State Michael Gove’s intervention in planning applications for...
Sam Stafford has mentioned previously that the podcast would consider the new Government’s reform agenda and this is an attempt at doing so....
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...
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 parlia...
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 p...
In February 2024 Planning published a special report by Joey Gardiner entitled ‘how cost-saving consultants disrupted council planning servi...
When Sam Stafford first covered nutrient neutrality, in February 2021, he described the process of eutrophication as a bit like the podcast...
What are we to make of neighbourhood planning? Friend of the podcast Ben Castell considers it a “grassroots planning revolution”. Perhaps le...
Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Catriona Riddell , Shelly Rouse and Nic...
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Greg Dickson and Claire Petricca-Ri...
In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning perm...
The Prime Minister recently announced plans to "turbocharge" development within England's largest towns and cities to mark a Government cons...
This episode is a ramblechat that Sam Stafford recorded in London with friends of the podcast Hashi Mohamed , Simon Ricketts , Nicola Gooch...