If you’re involved they’re terrible, but if you’re just observing they’re terrific. In this episode Sam Stafford and his guests Katie Dean and Mike O’Brien discuss the cauldrons of human emotion that are planning committees.
Some accompanying reading.
A House of Commons Library Briefing
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01030
A Lichfields research paper
https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/refused-for-good-reason
PAS guidance on probity in planning for councillors and officers
https://www.local.gov.uk/Pas-probity-planning
Some accompanying listening.
An objector singing at Reading’s planning committee (13 mins)
https://channel.royalcast.com/readingboroughcouncil/#!/readingboroughcouncil/20160907_1
