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50 Shades of Planning

Samuel Stafford

50 Shades of Planning is Sam Stafford’s attempt to explore the foibles of the English planning system and its aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different…

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A Lot of Stick (But Not Much Carrott) 2026-11-07 · 59m
Hail To The Chief 2026-10-24 · 66m
Neutral Impact IV 2026-10-17 · 80m
The New Local Plan-Making System 2026-10-10 · 56m
A Framework-Led Conversation 2026-09-26 · 65m
Meet a MP and an AM - Reform UK 2026-09-19 · 70m
We Can't Stop Planning 2026-09-05 · 59m
Viable Options 2026-08-22 · 63m
Why do places look the way they do? 2026-08-08 · 72m
Vibes and Stuff 2026-08-01 · 57m
Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield 2026-07-25 · 66m
Emerging Planners 2026-07-18 · 77m
Meet the MPs - Lib Dems 2026-07-11 · 64m
Red Hot Planning Chat 2026-07-04 · 63m
All Around the World - New Zealand 2026-06-27 · 69m
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Soulsby 2026-06-20 · 64m
The Shard Inquiry 2026-06-13 · 83m
The Tip of the AIceberg 2026-06-06 · 56m
Meet the MPs - Labour 2026-05-30 · 65m
Reform, reform and more Reform 2026-05-23 · 57m
LGR 2026-05-16 · 60m
The West Midlands Problem (plus Grey Belt and some other stuff) 2026-05-02 · 57m
What is really wrong with the Habitats Regulations? 2026-04-18 · 68m
Some Things Just Take Time 2026-04-04 · 60m
New Towns: Practicalities & Placemaking 2026-03-28 · 48m
All Around the World - The Netherlands 2026-03-21 · 50m
Appeal Ready 2026-03-07 · 42m
Hitting the High Notes - Catriona Riddell 2026-02-21 · 82m
We❤️Planning 2026-02-07 · 61m
How Does Bad Policy Get Made? 2026-01-24 · 68m
The Return of Strategic Planning 2026-01-10 · 58m
🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2025🏆 2025-12-27 · 83m
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄 2025-12-20 · 93m
Discretion Advised 2025-12-06 · 60m
The Snagging List II 2025-11-22 · 63m
All Around the World - Australia 2025-11-08 · 48m
Planorama 2025-10-25 · 64m
The Amazing Technicolour Green Belt 2025-10-11 · 89m
Who's In Control? 2025-09-27 · 62m
Hitting the High Notes - Alice Lester 2025-09-13 · 61m
What's Going On? 2025-08-30 · 64m
All Around the World - USA 2025-08-16 · 55m
New Politics, New Towns and New Books 2025-08-02 · 63m
Hitting the High Notes - Tim Waring 2025-07-19 · 54m
The Snagging List 2025-07-05 · 74m
All Builders Big and Small 2025-06-21 · 66m
Grey Belt: Policy Guidance and Appeals 2025-06-07 · 95m
A Conversation with Michael Gove 2025-05-24 · 48m
Pre-Apps, Puddles and NDMPs 2025-05-10 · 52m
The BNG 2025-04-26 · 62m
If I Ruled the World 2025-04-12 · 60m
Back in Black 2025-03-29 · 101m
A Brief History of Planning 2010-2024 2024-10-19 · 66m
100 Days of Labour 2024-10-12 · 65m
Not the NPPF 2024-10-05 · 53m
The YIMBY Crowd 2024-09-21 · 54m
The Masterplan 2024-09-07 · 56m
Hitting the High Notes - Mike Best 2024-08-31 · 65m
To Rebuild or to Retrofit? 2024-08-17 · 51m
Labour of Love 2024-08-03 · 105m
Let's Get Digital 2024-07-20 · 82m
Housing by Popular Demand 2024-07-06 · 59m
What Do We Want? 2024-06-22 · 54m
Efficiency Savings 2024-06-15 · 65m
Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt) 2024-06-01 · 58m
Love Thy Neighbourhood Plan 2024-05-18 · 60m
Grey Belt 2024-05-04 · 47m
A Hillside To Die On 2024-04-20 · 46m
Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby 2024-04-13 · 66m
Banishing Boxland 2024-03-23 · 49m
Capturing the Zeitgeist 2024-03-09 · 52m
Critical Infrastructure 2024-02-24 · 53m
Hitting the High Notes - Simon Ricketts 2024-02-03 · 55m
NPPF 2023 Update - What Next? 2024-01-20 · 58m
🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2023🏆 2023-12-30 · 62m
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London🤶🏻 2023-12-23 · 64m
☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🎄 2023-12-16 · 51m
Pre-Apps and PPAs 2023-12-09 · 55m
A B~~~~~'s Muddle 2023-12-02 · 61m
Going Public 2023-11-25 · 72m
A Plan for England 2023-11-11 · 60m
A LURA LURA Laughs 2023-10-28 · 65m
Planning is Brilliant 2023-10-21 · 47m
A Conversation with Ben Everitt 2023-10-07 · 51m
The Mortar Bombs of Division 2023-09-30 · 50m
One Staircase or Two? 2023-09-23 · 48m
Last of the Summer Whine 2023-09-02 · 48m
Hitting the High Notes - Hashi Mohamed 2023-08-19 · 73m
Another Conversation with Clive Betts 2023-07-22 · 55m
The Power of Plans - New York 2023-07-01 · 60m
The Power of Plans - Dublin 2023-07-01 · 54m
The Power of Plans - Shenzen 2023-07-01 · 45m
An Engaging Conversation 2023-06-17 · 66m
Hitting the High Notes - Steve Quartermain 2023-06-10 · 66m
Licensed to IL 2023-05-13 · 73m
Life Lessons 2023-05-06 · 29m
All Politics is Local 2023-04-22 · 54m
No Hope? 2023-04-01 · 56m
A Conversation with Bethany Cullen 2023-03-18 · 39m
Planning for a Feminist City 2023-03-08 · 94m
Life on the Front Line II 2023-02-25 · 52m
What Does a Good Local Plan Look Like? 2023-02-04 · 58m
More Homes. Better Places. So Far As Possible. 2023-01-14 · 67m
🏆 The #Planoraks Awards 2022 🏆 2022-12-31 · 57m
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🤶🏻 2022-12-17 · 30m
Call For Evidence - Life on the Front Line II 2022-12-13 · 4m
🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London☃️ 2022-12-10 · 32m
Catch Up 2022-11-19 · 54m
What Town Planners Do 2022-11-08 · 52m
A Home of One's Own 2022-10-15 · 57m
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Dixon 2022-10-08 · 59m
A Stimulating Growth Conversation 2022-10-01 · 49m
Neutral Impact II 2022-09-10 · 63m
An Esoteric Discussion about the Planning System 2022-08-20 · 51m
Housing People 2022-08-06 · 60m
A Gentle Conversation about Density 2022-07-23 · 59m
LURB 2022-07-09 · 54m
Hitting the High Notes - Anna Rose 2022-06-25 · 59m
Place, Politics and the Piece Hall 2022-06-11 · 97m
Three Things (or 'The 50 Shades Manifesto For Sensible Planning Reform') 2022-05-21 · 57m
Leading From The Front 2022-04-30 · 71m
Hitting the High Notes - Pete Swift 2022-04-09 · 61m
Call for Evidence - Three Things 2022-03-30 · 3m
Think Differently 2022-03-21 · 74m
No Little Plans 2022-03-05 · 54m
An Amassing of Think Tanks 2022-02-12 · 58m
Hitting the High Notes - Wayne Hemingway 2022-01-22 · 46m
Life on the Front Line 2022-01-08 · 59m
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - The Final🎅🏻 2021-12-24 · 40m
🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 2🎄 2021-12-21 · 38m
☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 1☃️ 2021-12-18 · 38m
Call for Evidence - Life on the Front Line 2021-12-11 · 4m
The Only Constant is Change 2021-12-04 · 53m
Call for Evidence - Britain's Best and Worst Streets 2021-11-20 · 3m
The Coastal Path 2021-11-06 · 55m
Doing Someone's Bidding 2021-10-16 · 55m
A Fairway to Solve the Housing Crisis 2021-10-02 · 48m
Hitting the High Notes - Paul Barnard 2021-09-18 · 63m
Our Friends in the North - Part 2 2021-09-04 · 59m
Our Friends in the North - Part 1 2021-08-28 · 51m
Where Are We Now? 2021-08-07 · 60m
Aging Well In Place 2021-07-17 · 59m
The Bin Lorry Effect 2021-07-03 · 56m
A Conversation with Clive Betts 2021-06-19 · 45m
Some Are More Equal Than Others 2021-06-05 · 54m
Hitting the High Notes - Ben Castell 2021-05-15 · 61m
Fudge 2021-05-01 · 54m
Cracking the Code 2021-04-10 · 57m
Hitting the High Notes - Victoria Hills 2021-03-27 · 64m
EA in the UK after the EU 2021-03-12 · 56m
Neutral Impact 2021-02-27 · 60m
The Unearned Increment 2021-02-03 · 71m
Can the British plan? 2021-01-19 · 56m
Reflections on 2020 - Part 2 2020-12-27 · 45m
Reflections on 2020 - Part 1 2020-12-18 · 34m
Tall Stories 2020-12-04 · 52m
Legal Eagles 2020-11-18 · 71m
Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Freeholder 2020-10-16 · 53m
The High Street is dead, long live the High Street. 2020-09-30 · 70m
The Numbers Game 2020-09-17 · 69m
Places and Spaces 2020-09-08 · 51m
A Conversation with Chris Findley 2020-08-25 · 63m
Planning Reform Day 2020-08-14 · 60m
Jet Zero 2020-08-07 · 55m
DCOs, NPSs and NSIPs. 2020-07-28 · 52m
Crosstown Traffic 2020-07-16 · 61m
Rules of Engagement 2020-07-01 · 62m
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours 2020-06-19 · 59m
APC, easy as 1,2,3. 2020-06-09 · 54m
Stay Alert > Keep Planning > Improve Lives 2020-05-27 · 58m
The CaMKOx Arc. Behind the curve? 2020-05-14 · 44m
The London Plan. Capital Punishment? 2020-05-01 · 50m
Green Belt. Sacred Cow? 2020-04-22 · 56m
Planning and Coronavirus 2020-03-28 · 76m
The Fast-Paced, Ever-Changing, Rock and Roll World of Town and Country Planning 2020-02-28 · 52m
How and Where Can and Should More Homes be Built? 2020-02-11 · 66m
A Conversation with David Rudlin 2020-01-24 · 48m
Reasons to be Cheerful 2020-01-08 · 61m
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄 2019-12-13 · 48m
How To Plan Strategically Without Strategic Planning 2019-11-08 · 55m
A Conversation with Bob Kerslake 2019-10-23 · 42m
Planning Committees - Cauldrons of Human Emotion 2019-09-26 · 42m
The Data Day 2019-09-09 · 48m
Trust Me, I'm A Planner. 2019-08-16 · 48m
A Conversation with Sean Anstee 2019-08-05 · 45m
The Need for Speed 2019-06-26 · 52m
Image Rights 2019-05-24 · 47m
Planning. Huh, Good God. What Is It Good For? 2019-04-15 · 44m
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