🏆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, rock and roll world of town and country planning. Once again Zack Simons kindly bestowed upon Sam the honour of announcing Zack's 2025 Awards on the podcast. Sam met Zack at Soho Radio Studios where and he handed him six golden envelopes, which you will hear opened during their conversation. They contain the winners of the following awards: Policy of the Year; Missed opportunity of the year; Catastrophe of the Year; Delay of the Year; Stat of the Year; and Consent of the Year. Some accompanying reading. The 2025 - the new NPPF The Proposed London Housing Emergency Measures Package Is Underwhelming Grey Belt – A Game Changer for Planning and Housing Some accompanying viewing. Exploring the new NPPF draft Some accompanying listening. The Black Keys – Year in Review Any other business. If you enjoy the episode do please consider bolstering Sam's fragile self-esteem by leaving the podcast a nice rating and a nice review wherever you listened to it. Obviously though if you have not enjoyed it then please do not leave a review. If you have enjoyed to the extent that you feel compelled to share the podcast on one your social platforms then, if you tag Sam, you will be entitled to an exclusive and much-sought after 50 Shades of Planning mug. If you are a new listener do please check out the back catalogue where you will find episodes on myriad planning topics, as well as the Hitting The High Notes and All Around the World series, and remember that by subscribing new episodes will magically appear in your phone as soon as Sam has published them. 50 Shades of Planning is the podcast by planners and for planners and so if you would like to use it as a platform for sharing anything you think that the sector needs to be talking about then you are very welcome to get in touch with Sam via samstafford@hotmail.com. Sam is grateful to Richborough, Town Legal and Tyler Grange for supporting the podcast; to Vistry for sponsoring the 50 Shades mugs; to Adrian Meehan and Soho Radio Studies for recording this episode: and to Rachael Cooper at ViralTribe for editing it. Sam is on Bluesky and Instagram . His blog contains a link to his newsletter.

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🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2025🏆 is an episode from The 50 Shades of Planning Podcast by Samuel Stafford.

This episode is 01:22:58 long.

This episode was published on Dec 27, 2025.

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