50 Shades of Planning

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50 Shades of Planning is Sam Stafford’s attempt to explore the foibles of the English planning system and it's aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different experiences and perspectives.

50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which are a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. The conversations take in the six milestone planning permissions or projects within a contributor’s career and for every project guests are invited to choose a piece of music that they were listening to at that time. Think Desert Island Discs, but for planners.

Sam is on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford), and his blogs can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com (from where you can also sign up for his newsletter).

The 50 Shades platforms are expressions of Sam's personal opinions, which may or may not represent the opinions of his past, present or future employers.

50 Shades of Planning is by planners and for planners and so if you would like to use the podcast or the YouTube channel for sharing anything you think that the sector needs to be talking about then do please feel free to get in touch with Sam via samstafford@hotmail.com.

Why Fifty Shades? Well, planning is not a black and white endeavour. There are at least fifty shades in between....

Recent Episodes
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  • 100 Days of Labour
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  • Not the NPPF
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  • The YIMBY Crowd
    Sep 21, 2024 – 00:53:57
  • The Masterplan
    Sep 7, 2024 – 00:55:56
  • Hitting the High Notes - Mike Best
    Aug 31, 2024 – 01:04:55
  • To rebuild or to retrofit?
    Aug 17, 2024 – 00:50:41
  • Labour of Love
    Aug 3, 2024 – 01:44:41
  • Let's get digital
    Jul 20, 2024 – 01:21:32
  • Housing by popular demand
    Jul 6, 2024 – 00:59:04
  • What do we want?
    Jun 22, 2024 – 00:54:29
  • Efficiency Savings
    Jun 15, 2024 – 01:05:10
  • Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt)
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  • Love Thy Neighbourhood Plan
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  • Grey Belt
    May 4, 2024 – 00:47:21
  • A Hillside to die on
    Apr 20, 2024 – 00:46:16
  • Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby
    Apr 13, 2024 – 01:06:14
  • Banishing Boxland
    Mar 23, 2024 – 00:48:50
  • Capturing the Zeitgeist
    Mar 9, 2024 – 00:51:47
  • Critical Infrastructure
    Feb 24, 2024 – 00:53:10
  • Hitting the High Notes - Simon Ricketts
    Feb 3, 2024 – 00:54:57
  • NPPF 2023 Update - What Next?
    Jan 20, 2024 – 00:57:47
  • 🏆The #Planaraks Awards 2023🏆
    Dec 30, 2023 – 01:02:01
  • 🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London🤶🏻
    Dec 23, 2023 – 01:04:29
  • ☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🎄
    Dec 16, 2023 – 00:51:08
  • Pre-Apps & PPAs
    Dec 9, 2023 – 00:55:09
  • A B~~~~~'s Muddle
    Dec 2, 2023 – 01:00:55
  • Going Public
    Nov 25, 2023 – 01:11:59
  • A Plan for England
    Nov 11, 2023 – 01:00:12
  • A LURA LURA Laughs
    Oct 28, 2023 – 01:04:59
  • Planning is Brilliant
    Oct 21, 2023 – 00:47:24
  • A conversation with Ben Everitt
    Oct 7, 2023 – 00:50:30
  • The Mortar Bombs of Division
    Sep 30, 2023 – 00:50:02
  • One Staircase or Two?
    Sep 23, 2023 – 00:47:34
  • Last of the Summer Whine
    Sep 2, 2023 – 00:48:12
  • Hitting the High Notes - Hashi Mohamed
    Aug 19, 2023 – 01:12:58
  • Another conversation with Clive Betts
    Jul 22, 2023 – 00:55:09
  • The Power of Plans - New York
    Jul 1, 2023 – 00:59:59
  • The Power of Plans - Dublin
    Jul 1, 2023 – 00:53:59
  • The Power of Plans - Shenzen
    Jul 1, 2023 – 00:45:04
  • An Engaging Conversation
    Jun 17, 2023 – 01:05:45
  • Hitting the High Notes - Steve Quartermain
    Jun 10, 2023 – 01:05:55
  • Licensed to Il
    May 13, 2023 – 01:13:24
  • Life Lessons
    May 6, 2023 – 00:29:18
  • All politics is local
    Apr 22, 2023 – 00:53:43
  • No hope?
    Apr 1, 2023 – 00:55:31
  • A conversation with Bethany Cullen
    Mar 18, 2023 – 00:39:24
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