Episode 174 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms. I was in London recently and whilst there caught up with friends of the podcast Hana Loftus , Mike Kiely , Nicola Gooch , Simon Ricketts and Andrew Taylor . Hana is a Director at HAT Projects; Mike is a former Chief Planner and now an independent planning consultant working mainly in the public sector; Nicola is a Partner at Birketts; Simon is a Partner at Town Legal and Andrew is Group Planning & Sustainability Director at Vistry. In a conversation recorded at Soho Radio Studios we chatted about some of the hot topics exercising the planning profession at the minute. We talked about the legal challenge by some London boroughs to the Mayor’s package of time-limited emergency measures to support housebuilding. We talked about planning committees, the national scheme of delegation, statutory chief planners, the designation of LPAs for poor performance, the Nature Restoratio...
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