Podcast episode 151 is available now via this link or from Apple and Spotify . In between some moving and shaking in The Big Smoke recently I took the opportunity to meet a few friends of the podcast at Soho Radio Studios to pick out the highlights from another exciting few weeks in the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning. I caught up with, and you will hear in this episode from, old friends of the podcast Simon Ricketts, Annie Gingell, Shelly Rouse and Hana Loftus, and new friend of the podcast Hayley White. We started by talking about the recently broadcast Panorama programme on the housing crisis; we went on to talk about affordable housing delivery, specifically the constraints on the use of grant funding by registered providers and the (then) rumoured changes to affordable housing thresholds in London; C.G. Fry and the implications thereof; and, in the context of a second letter from the Minister to the Planning Inspectorate about local pl...
Hello Readers. My name is Sam, I am a town planner and I sometimes write about town planning-related things (in my own time and as an expression of my own opinions). I have a town planning-related podcast (there is a link to that on this page somewhere) and I circulate a town planning-related newsletter from time to time (here is a link to that somewhere as well). Should you be so inclined, I am on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford).