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Podcast episode 147: What's Going On?

Podcast episode 147 is available now via this link or from iTunes and Spotify.

I was in Swinging London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Nicola Gooch, Catriona Riddell, Andrew Taylor, Annie Gingell and Iain Thomson.

Over the course of an hour or so at Soho Radio Studios we enjoyed a good ol’ fashioned 50 Shades-style ramblechat about a few of hot topics exercising the planning profession at present.

We talked about statutory consultees and specifically the need to engage utility providers with the SDS process. We talked about the merits of locally-set application fees. We talked about grant funding for affordable housing; the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill, which led on to Assets of Community Value; the use of hotels for the accommodation of asylum seekers; Level 7 Apprenticeships; and we talked about data centres.





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