đThe 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Londonâď¸
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- December 10th 2022
Itâs cold, wet and miserable and, alas, there is little in Michael Goveâs recent Written Ministerial Statement to warm the cockles of a plannerâs heart. Hopefully then the return of the 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz will spread some seasonal cheer.
Even by the standards of the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning it has been quite a year. With the help of Richard Garlick at Planning magazine, who provided Sam Stafford with some of the most-read stories on PlanningResource.co.uk, Sam quizzes some of the 50 Shades alumni on 2022âs highlights and lowlights.
Expect fun, frivolity and an appearance from a very special guestâŚ
Some accompanying reading
January
Minister announces new performance measures for planning inspectors to speed up appeal decisions
February
Government announces first council to be designated under âspecial measuresâ programme for seven years
March
Councils to freeze decisions on housing applications following Natural England recreation advice
April
Councils three times more likely to successfully defend design refusals following NPPF change, research finds
May
New leader says council to consider withdrawing local plan after branding housing target as ânonsenseâ
June
New NPPF to come out next month, says Gove
https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1789261/new-nppf-next-month-says-gove
July
Truss pledges new simplified planning zones to create 21st century Bournvilles
August
Government plans to take powers to shorten national infrastructure examinations
September
Affordable housing and environmental requirements âto be relaxed in new investment zonesâ
October
Gove returns as levelling up secretary
https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1803168/gove-returns-levelling-secretary
November
Half of councils lack the capacity to monitor compliance with planning enforcement, says survey
December
Government promises âstrengthenedâ green belt protections and penalties for âslowâ developers
50 Shades of Planning
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.
50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which is a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. The conversations take in the six milestone planning permissions or projects within a contributorâs 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. If you would like to feature on 'Hitting The High Notes', or know somebody that would make a great guest, please email [email protected].
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.
As with the 50 Shades Blog, the 50 Shades Podcast is a platform for Sam's personal opinions, which may or may not represent the opinions of his past, present or future employers.
50 Shades of Planning is produced in partnership with Cratus Group.
Why Fifty Shades? Well, planning is not a black and white endeavour. There are at least fifty shades in between...
