Episode number 125 of the podcast is available now via this link or from Apple and Spotify . With a General Election now imminent I thought that it might be interesting to try to compare what is being offered by the main political parties in relation to housing, planning and development with what the housing, planning and development sector would like to see being offered. To do so I spoke to new friends of the podcast Richard Blyth , Tony Mulhall, Marie Chadwick and Ian Fletcher , and old friend of the podcast Paul Brocklehurst , about the policy proposals that their respective organisations are promulgating. Richard is Head of Policy & Practice at the RTPI; Tony is a Senior Specialist at RICS; Marie is Policy Leader at the NHF; Paul is Chair of the LPDF; and Ian is Director of Real Estate Policy at the BPF. I invited them all to outline their respective manifestos and then we focused on two key areas that everybody agreed need to be addressed: the need to get more resources in