Episode 160 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or Apple and Spotify . Strategic planning, as I said in the introduction to episode 157, is back and that episode, you might recall, looked at what shape it is in right now. What have authorities been able to do whilst awaiting the consolidation of the Planning & Infrastructure Act, the NPPF and the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill? What we did know just a few weeks ago, but we do now, are the new strategic geographies outside of areas governed by a mayor and where some work on Spatial Development Strategies is already underway. So the podcast has looked at where we are now, but what do those tasked with consolidating the Planning & Infrastructure Act, the NPPF and the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, and those producing SDSs, need to know about the last time we were planning strategically given that some time has now passed since the revocation of the Regional Spatial Strat...
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).