Podcast episode 144: Hitting the High Notes

Podcast episode 144: Hitting the High Notes - Tim Waring

Podcast episode 144 is available now via this link or from iTunes and Spotify and it sees the welcome return of the Hitting The High Notes series.

If you have not listened to one of these before the basic proposition is that I chat to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or projects that helped to shape them as professionals. And, so that we can get to know people a little better personally, for every project or stage of their career I also ask my guests for a piece of music that reminds them of that period. Think of it as town planning’s equivalent (nee rip off) of Desert Island Discs.

Unlike Desert Island Discs though you will not, I am afraid, hear any of that music during the episode because using commercially-licensed music without the copyright holders permission or a very expensive PRS licensing agreement could land me in hot water, so, when you have finished listening, you will have to make do with You Tube videos and a Spotify playlist, links to which you will find in the episode description.

My guest for this episode of Hitting The High Notes is Tim Waring who retired earlier this year after a near 40 year career in planning consultancy.

My conversation with Tim was recorded at Distorted Studios in Leeds back in March this year, little over a month after he left Quod, for whom he opened an office back in 2014, the third planning team, you will hear, that he established in the city. We talked about out of centre retail development in Worthing and Stockport; town centre redevelopment in Beverley and Leeds; and residential development in Ripon and York. Tim also shares with me his golden rules of planning consultancy, which are very much work listening out for.

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