It will not have gone unnoticed that the Government published a 'Growth Plan' on Friday 23 September 2022 with implications for the Development Consent Order regime and the introduction of a new Investment Zone concept. Additional information about Investment Zones was published the following day (links below).
Friend of the podcast Simon Ricketts hastily convened one of his 'Planning Law, Unplanned' Clubhouse sessions for the Tuesday evening to which Sam Stafford, along with Iain Thomson, Shelly Rouse, Nicola Gooch and Jonathan Easton, were invited to contribute. This episode then is slightly different from previous ones in that they all kindly agreed to record that conversation so that some of it could be used and shared by Sam for 50 Shades. You will hear then in the next forty five minutes or so some thoughts from that group on what is known and not known about the Growth Plan and what the implications for planning may or may not be.
Simon Ricketts (@sricketts1) is a Partner at Town Legal.
Iain Thomson (@KingofSurbo) is MD at Bellona Advisors.
Shelly Rouse (@rouse_shelly) is a Principal Consultant at the Planning Advisory Service.
Nicola Gooch (not on Twitter) is a Partner at Irwin Mitchell.
Jonathan Easton (@jonnye47) is a full-time Barrister at Kings Chambers and a part-time punster.
Some accompanying reading.
The Growth Plan
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-growth-plan-2022-documents/the-growth-plan-2022-html
Additional information about Growth Zones
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investment-zones-in-england
Simon's Growth Plan Blog
https://simonicity.com/2022/09/23/what-does-the-growth-plan-mean-for-development-and-infrastructure/
Iain's Growth Plan Blog
https://www.bellona-advisors.co.uk/reports/growth-plan-analysis/
Nicola's Growth Plan Blog
Sam's Growth Plan Blog
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2022/09/in-investment-zone.html
Zack Simon's Growth Plan Blog
https://www.planoraks.com/posts-1/investment-zones
Some accompanying listening.
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If you have listened to Episode 45 of 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
Sam is on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford), and his blogs can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com.
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