When in Manchester recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast David Diggle, Paul Smith, Rebecca Coley and Claire Petricca-Riding and over the course of an hour or so they talked about a few of the hot topics that are exercising the planning profession at the minute.
Those hot topics include the widely anticipated spike in planning applications this year; locally-set fees, pre-apps and PPAs; the Flood Risk Sequential Test, NDMPs, and, very briefly towards the end of their conversation, the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and the Corry Review.
Some accompanying reading.
Data shows an over 160% rise in planning applications
https://www.lpdf.co.uk/news/data-shows-an-over-160-rise-in-planning-applications
How puddles could stop the government building the homes we need
https://longwall.substack.com/i/160566665/what-planning-policy-says-about-flood-risk
Labour of Love II - Flood Risk Sequential Test
https://youtu.be/g8ObnIeN-fc?si=_5WDBTPFeAxv3-22
How National Development Management Policies Can Boost Economic Growth
SME sites for SME builders
https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/11/sme-sites-for-sme-builders.html
The Corry Review
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Some accompanying listening.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Rain - The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA
Any other business.
50 Shades T-Shirts!
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here.
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