Before heading to London for the week, Sam Stafford caught up with 50 Shades stalwarts Paul Smith, Katie Wray and Ian Wray for a wide-ranging ramblechat at the Reform Radio studios in Manchester.

Paul is Managing Director at the Strategic Land Group, a Director at the LPDF and a columnist for Housing Today.

Katie is a Director at Deloitte.

Ian is an Honorary Professor and Fellow at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice & Place at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences .

The four of them spent an hour or so chatting about all manner of things, including the private management of public space; embodied carbon; infrastructure planning and the notion of compensation payments for affected communities; the Autumn Statement and associated announcements; the Competition & Market Authority's working paper on planning; and the role of Everton’s new stadium in both their recent loss of points and the loss of Liverpool’s World Heritage Site status. 

Sam would like to apologies to Listeners for his use of a naughty word.

Some accompanying reading.

Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptation Historic England Advice Note

https://historicengland.org.uk/about/what-we-do/consultations/guidance-open-for-consultation/

M&S given permission to appeal Gove’s Oxford Street refusal

https://www.building.co.uk/news/mands-given-permission-to-appeal-goves-oxford-street-refusal/5126450.article

Essex pylon corridor compensation plan 'insulting'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67523588

Rooms for debate: polling on the housing crisis, Green Belt and planning system

https://www.adamsmith.org/research/rooms-for-debate

Autumn Statement 2023

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2023

Getting Great Britain building again: Speeding up infrastructure delivery

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/getting-great-britain-building-again-speeding-up-infrastructure-delivery/getting-great-britain-building-again-speeding-up-infrastructure-delivery#short-term-package

Pre-application advice and Planning Performance Agreements

https://www.local.gov.uk/pas/development-mgmt/pre-application-advice-and-planning-performance-agreements-ppas

Housebuilding market study

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/housebuilding-market-study

 A Perfect Storm

https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/a-perfect-storm

Pathways to Planning: information for councils

https://www.local.gov.uk/pathways-planning-council-info

Some accompanying viewing.

Brian Clough on how to settle a difference of opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7FBfdErGgw

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: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html