Episode 171 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms. I was invited by Lorenzo Pandolfi of Logic Planning back in February to a seminar that he was hosting jointly with Simone Pagani of GIA Surveyors. They had invited Chris Katkowski of Kings Chambers and Russell Harris of Landmark Chambers to tell the story of the Shard inquiry. I was disappointed not to be able to make it, I recall that I was in Newcastle that afternoon, but one of the benefits of being an amateur podcaster is that if I cannot attend something I can politely enquire as to the possibility of it being recorded. Not just for me, obviously, but for the 50 Shades listenership as well. As it so happens, and perhaps not surprisingly, the event was oversubscribed and so it was agreed that we would turn it into a 50 Shades episode. Over the course of an hour and a quarter or so you will hear two of our most prominent KCs share their recollections of one of the most consequen...
Episode 170 of the podcast is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms. "The second (epochal change) is the technology revolution led by developments in artificial intelligence, which will change everything. I mean everything. There is no point in debating whether this technological revolution is a good or bad thing. Just know it is a ‘thing’. In fact, it is ‘the thing’. It will displace jobs, though creating new ones, but no one yet knows the full consequence. Companies and countries will rise or fall on the back of it. It will revolutionise the private sector and should in time revolutionise public services and government. Yet people in most countries, including Britain, have no idea what is about to hit them." Not my words, Readers, but the words of Tony Blair in his recent essay . What is about to hit us? What are the implications of AI in the planning context? What does it mean for what we do now and what we might do in the future? What are the le...