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