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Andrew Coleman
Feb 6, 2020
The best pod about the English planning system that I've found.
Sam Stafford started posting on 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 aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different experiences and perspectives.
50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which is a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. The conversations take in the six milestone planning permissions or projects within a contributor’s career and for every project guests are invited to choose a piece of music that they were listening to at that time. Think Desert Island Discs, but for planners. If you would like to feature on 'Hitting The High Notes', or know somebody that would make a great guest, please email samstafford@hotmail.com.
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html
Sam is on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford), and his blogs can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com.
As with the 50 Shades Blog, the 50 Shades Podcast is a platform for Sam's personal opinions, which may or may not represent the opinions of his past, present or future employers.
50 Shades of Planning is produced in partnership with Cratus Group.
Why Fifty Shades? Well, planning is not a black and white endeavour. There are at least fifty shades in between...
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Grey Belt
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May 04, 2024 |
A Hillside to die on
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Banishing Boxland
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Capturing the Zeitgeist
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Critical Infrastructure
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Feb 24, 2024 |
Hitting the High Notes - Simon Ricketts
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Feb 03, 2024 |
NPPF 2023 Update - What Next?
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Jan 20, 2024 |
🏆The #Planaraks Awards 2023🏆
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Dec 30, 2023 |
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London🤶🏻
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Dec 23, 2023 |
☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🎄
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Pre-Apps & PPAs
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Dec 09, 2023 |
A B~~~~~'s Muddle
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Dec 02, 2023 |
Going Public
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Nov 25, 2023 |
A Plan for England
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Nov 11, 2023 |
A LURA LURA Laughs
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Oct 28, 2023 |
Planning is Brilliant
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Oct 21, 2023 |
A conversation with Ben Everitt
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Oct 07, 2023 |
The Mortar Bombs of Division
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Sep 30, 2023 |
One Staircase or Two?
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Sep 23, 2023 |
Last of the Summer Whine
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Sep 02, 2023 |
Hitting the High Notes - Hashi Mohamed
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Aug 19, 2023 |
Another conversation with Clive Betts
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Jul 22, 2023 |
The Power of Plans - Shenzen
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Jul 01, 2023 |
The Power of Plans - Dublin
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Jul 01, 2023 |
The Power of Plans - New York
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Jul 01, 2023 |
An Engaging Conversation
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Jun 17, 2023 |
Hitting the High Notes - Steve Quartermain
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Jun 10, 2023 |
Licensed to Il
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May 13, 2023 |
Life Lessons
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May 06, 2023 |
All politics is local
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Apr 22, 2023 |
No hope?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
A conversation with Bethany Cullen
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Mar 18, 2023 |
Planning for a Feminist City
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Mar 08, 2023 |
Life on the Front Line II
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Feb 25, 2023 |
What does a good local plan look like?
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Feb 04, 2023 |
More homes. Better places. So far as possible.
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Jan 14, 2023 |
🏆 The #Planaraks Awards 2022 🏆
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Dec 31, 2022 |
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🤶🏻
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Dec 17, 2022 |
Call for evidence - Life on the Front Line II
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Dec 13, 2022 |
🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London☃️
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Dec 10, 2022 |
Catch up
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Nov 19, 2022 |
What Town Planners Do
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Nov 08, 2022 |
A Home of One's Own
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Oct 15, 2022 |
Hitting the High Notes - Peter Dixon
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Oct 08, 2022 |
A stimulating growth conversation
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Oct 01, 2022 |
Neutral Impact II
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Sep 10, 2022 |
An esoteric discussion about the planning system
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Aug 20, 2022 |
Housing people
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Aug 06, 2022 |
A gentle conversation about density
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Jul 23, 2022 |
LURB
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Jul 09, 2022 |
Hitting the High Notes - Anna Rose
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Jun 25, 2022 |
Place, Politics & The Piece Hall
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Jun 11, 2022 |
Three Things (or 'The 50 Shades Manifesto For Sensible Planning Reform')
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May 21, 2022 |
Leading from the front
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Apr 30, 2022 |
Hitting the High Notes - Pete Swift
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Apr 09, 2022 |
Call for evidence - Three Things
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Think differently
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Mar 21, 2022 |
No Little Plans
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Mar 05, 2022 |
An amassing of Think Tanks
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Feb 12, 2022 |
Hitting the High Notes - Wayne Hemingway
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Jan 22, 2022 |
Life on the Front Line
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Jan 08, 2022 |
🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - The Final🎅🏻
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Dec 24, 2021 |
🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 2🎄
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Dec 21, 2021 |
☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 1☃️
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Dec 18, 2021 |
Call for evidence - Life on the Front Line
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Dec 11, 2021 |
The only constant is change
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Dec 04, 2021 |
The Coastal Path
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Nov 06, 2021 |
Doing someone's bidding
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Oct 16, 2021 |
A fairway to solve the housing crisis
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Oct 02, 2021 |
Hitting the High Notes - Paul Barnard
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Sep 18, 2021 |
Our Friends in the North - Part 2
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Sep 04, 2021 |
Our Friends in the North - Part 1
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Aug 28, 2021 |
Where are we now?
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Aug 07, 2021 |
Aging well in place
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Jul 17, 2021 |
The Bin Lorry Effect
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Jul 03, 2021 |
A conversation with Clive Betts
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Some are more equal than others
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Jun 05, 2021 |
Hitting the High Notes - Ben Castell
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May 15, 2021 |
Fudge
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May 01, 2021 |
Cracking the Code
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Apr 10, 2021 |
Hitting the High Notes - Victoria Hills
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Mar 27, 2021 |
EA in the UK after the EU
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Mar 12, 2021 |
Neutral Impact
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Feb 27, 2021 |
The Unearned Increment
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Feb 03, 2021 |
Can the British plan?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Reflections on 2020 - Part 2
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Dec 27, 2020 |
Reflections on 2020 - Part 1
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Dec 18, 2020 |
Tall Stories
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Dec 04, 2020 |
Legal Eagles
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Beauty is in the eye of the freeholder
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Oct 16, 2020 |
The High Street is dead, long live the High Street
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Sep 30, 2020 |
The Numbers Game
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Sep 17, 2020 |
Places & Spaces
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Sep 08, 2020 |
A conversation with Chris Findley
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Planning Reform Day
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Aug 14, 2020 |
Jet Zero
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Aug 07, 2020 |
DCOs, NPSs & NSIPs
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Jul 28, 2020 |
Crosstown Traffic
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Jul 16, 2020 |
Rules of Engagement
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Jul 01, 2020 |
Everybody needs good neighbours
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Jun 19, 2020 |
APC, easy as 123
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Stay Alert > Keep Planning > Improve Lives
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May 27, 2020 |
The CaMKOx Arc. Behind the curve?
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May 14, 2020 |
The London Plan - Capital Punishment?
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May 01, 2020 |
Green Belt, Sacred Cow
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Apr 22, 2020 |
Planning & Coronavirus
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Mar 28, 2020 |
The fast-paced, ever-changing, rock ‘n’ roll world of town planning
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Feb 28, 2020 |
How and where can and should more homes be built?
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Feb 11, 2020 |
A conversation with David Rudlin
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Jan 24, 2020 |
Reasons to be cheerful
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Jan 08, 2020 |
The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz
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Dec 13, 2019 |
How to plan strategically without strategic planning
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Nov 08, 2019 |
A conversation with Bob Kerslake
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Oct 23, 2019 |
Planning committees: cauldrons of human emotion
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Sep 26, 2019 |
The data day
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Sep 09, 2019 |
Trust me. I'm a planner
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Aug 16, 2019 |
A conversation with Sean Anstee
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Aug 05, 2019 |
The need for speed
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Jun 26, 2019 |
Image Rights
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May 24, 2019 |
Planning. Huh, Good God. What is it good for?
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Apr 15, 2019 |