We Can't Stop Planning
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with old friends of the podcast Lisa Tye , Shaun Knights and Ja...
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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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The basis of this episode was a series of posts Sam Stafford spotted that Nick Cuff at Urban Sketch had shared on his Prop Views blog about...
Why do places look the way they do?
Sam Stafford was at a symposium organised by Create Streets at Hatfield House in June last year called ‘Building for generations’. All of th...
Vibes and Stuff
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity whilst there to catch up with old friend of the podcast Myles Wild Smith an...
Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield
This is another episode in the Hitting the High Notes series, which, if you have not listened to one before, is town planning's equivalent,...
Emerging Planners
A couple of months ago Sam Stafford saw that Shaun Knights at Preston City Council and national vice chair of the Young Planning Officers So...
Meet the MPs - Lib Dems
The role of local councillors in the planning system has been a familiar topic of conversation on the podcast in the context of, for example...
Red Hot Planning Chat
Sam Stafford was in London recently and whilst there caught up with friends of the podcast Hana Loftus , Mike Kiely , Nicola Gooch , Simon R...
All Around the World - New Zealand
This is the fourth of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith . Paul put it to Sam Stafford that deba...
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Soulsby
Sam Stafford was invited to a ProCon Leicestershire event in Leicester in October 2025 and also on the panel that evening was his old friend...
The Shard Inquiry
This episode features the recording of an event hosted by Lorenzo Pandolfi and Simone Pagani in February 2026. Lorenzo and Simone invited Ch...
The Tip of the AIceberg
"The second (epochal change) is the technology revolution led by developments in artificial intelligence, which will change everything. I me...
Meet the MPs - Labour
The role of local councillors in the planning system has been a familiar topic of conversation on the podcast in the context of, for example...
Reform, reform and more Reform
Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Charlotte Leach , Katie Wray , Clai...
LGR
The 2026 local elections will likely turn out to be significant for a number of reasons. Westminster psychodrama aside though, one area of i...
The West Midlands Problem (plus Grey Belt and some other stuff)
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Mike Best , Kathryn Ventham and Mic...
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...