Episode 133 of the podcast is available now via this link or from iTunes and Spotify . I was in Manchester recently (NPPF deadline day actually) and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Katie Wray , David Diggle , Greg Dickson , Mark Parkinson and Claire Petricca-Riding at the studios of Reform Radio . Conscious that the podcast has covered the revised NPPF in episodes 128 and 131, we talked about some of the other current hot planning topics. We talked about brownfield passports and why existing tools in the box are not being used already; we talked about the Labour Party Conference, which led on to conversation about a Plan for England; and we talked about what the New Towns Taskforce would need to do to meaningfully advance that agenda... and then we talked a bit more towards to the end about brownfield passports again. We did try not to mention the NPPF, but, as you will hear, were unsuccessful in so doing...
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