Episode 159 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or Apple and Spotify . My initial aim for the 50 Shades of Planning podcast was to replicate James Richardson’s Totally Football show in which he chats to a revolving cast of regular contributors about the issues of the day. Over time these episodes have become interspersed with other more thematic episodes, but I have done that from the outset with some friends in Manchester and then later, as I started spending more time down there, with some friends in The Big Smoke. I mention that because I was in Birmingham last week and recorded the first of this type of ‘catch up’ episode with some of my friends working in the West Midlands. Kathryn Ventham, old friend of the podcast, is a Senior Director at Twenty5 Planning; Myles Wild-Smith, new friend of the podcast, is a Director at Lichfields; and Michelle Simpson-Gallego, also a new friend of the podcast, is a Senior Planning Manager at Terra Strategic. In a conversation...
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 (there is a link to that somewhere as well). You can also find me on Linktree (@samuel_stafford).