50 Shades listeners are a perceptive bunch and will have a spotted that the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill (LURB) was introduced to Parliament on 11 May. Whilst the word planning does not appear on the front of the bill it does appear 680 times inside and so, for a planning podcast that purports to have it's figure on the pulse, it is about time that Sam Stafford put a panel together to discuss it.
Helpfully for Sam, Andrew Taylor (@AndrewJTaylor3), past 50 Shades contributor and friend of the podcast, did it for him. Andrew invited Sam to contribute to a National Planning Forum (@nat_plan) seminar on the LURB and, in preparation for the event, which took place on 5 July 2022, Sam invited the other panellists to record a preparatory chat. You will here in this episode then from:
- Tony Burton (@Tony4Place), free range consultant on community, planning, design and environment;
- Simon Ricketts (@sricketts1), Partner at Town Legal;
- Catriona Riddell (@CatrionaRiddel1), Director at Catriona Riddell & Associates; and
- Jennie Baker (@1jenniebaker), Associate Director at Lichfields.
PS. Perceptive 50 Shades listeners will also have spotted that the UK Government began to collapse on the evening of 5 July 2022 and that the future of the LURB is now uncertain. This though hopefully remains an interesting and relevant discussion.
Some accompanying reading.
The LURB
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3155
The policy paper that accompanies the LURB
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/levelling-up-and-regeneration-bill
Neighbourhood Planners London
https://www.neighbourhoodplanners.london/
Lichfields' analysis of the role of neighbourhood plans in housing delivery
https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/local-choices
Simon's recent LURB blog
https://simonicity.com/2022/07/02/summer-of-lurb/
Lichfields' LURB resource
https://lichfields.uk/the-levelling-up-and-regeneration-bill/
Matthew Carmona's blog on the design code pilots
https://matthew-carmona.com/2022/06/22/88-testing-design-codes-in-england-21-lessons/
The National Planning Forum
https://www.natplanforum.org.uk/
Some accompanying listening.
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Sam Stafford started posting on the 50 Shades of Planning blog in 2012 and in 2019 turned it into a podcast. 50 Shades of Planning is about 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.
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If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast 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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