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When in Manchester recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast David Diggle, Paul Smith, Rebecca Coley and Claire Petricca-Riding and over the course of an hour or so they talked about a few of the hot topics that are exercising the planning profession at the minute.

Those hot topics include the widely anticipated spike in planning applications this year; locally-set fees, pre-apps and PPAs; the Flood Risk Sequential Test, NDMPs, and, very briefly towards the end of their conversation, the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and the Corry Review.

Some accompanying reading.

Data shows an over 160% rise in planning applications

https://www.lpdf.co.uk/news/data-shows-an-over-160-rise-in-planning-applications

How puddles could stop the government building the homes we need

https://longwall.substack.com/i/160566665/what-planning-policy-says-about-flood-risk

Labour of Love II - Flood Risk Sequential Test

https://youtu.be/g8ObnIeN-fc?si=_5WDBTPFeAxv3-22

How National Development Management Policies Can Boost Economic Growth

https://www.publicfirst.co.uk/how-national-development-management-policies-can-boost-economic-growth.html

SME sites for SME builders

https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/11/sme-sites-for-sme-builders.html

The Corry Review

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-reforms-to-environmental-regulation-to-boost-growth-and-protect-nature

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/27/abundance-by-ezra-klein-and-derek-thompson-review-make-america-build-again

Some accompanying listening.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

https://open.spotify.com/show/090wd4VVywMtYCC5PSngvH?si=OWKfRjOiRnWR4az9LKXJFA&nd=1&dlsi=44c4e94d871c4bac

Rain - The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA

Any other business.

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.

Sam is on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford). His blog contains a link to his newsletter.

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Content provided by Samuel Stafford. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Samuel Stafford or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

When in Manchester recently Sam Stafford took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast David Diggle, Paul Smith, Rebecca Coley and Claire Petricca-Riding and over the course of an hour or so they talked about a few of the hot topics that are exercising the planning profession at the minute.

Those hot topics include the widely anticipated spike in planning applications this year; locally-set fees, pre-apps and PPAs; the Flood Risk Sequential Test, NDMPs, and, very briefly towards the end of their conversation, the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and the Corry Review.

Some accompanying reading.

Data shows an over 160% rise in planning applications

https://www.lpdf.co.uk/news/data-shows-an-over-160-rise-in-planning-applications

How puddles could stop the government building the homes we need

https://longwall.substack.com/i/160566665/what-planning-policy-says-about-flood-risk

Labour of Love II - Flood Risk Sequential Test

https://youtu.be/g8ObnIeN-fc?si=_5WDBTPFeAxv3-22

How National Development Management Policies Can Boost Economic Growth

https://www.publicfirst.co.uk/how-national-development-management-policies-can-boost-economic-growth.html

SME sites for SME builders

https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/11/sme-sites-for-sme-builders.html

The Corry Review

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-reforms-to-environmental-regulation-to-boost-growth-and-protect-nature

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/27/abundance-by-ezra-klein-and-derek-thompson-review-make-america-build-again

Some accompanying listening.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

https://open.spotify.com/show/090wd4VVywMtYCC5PSngvH?si=OWKfRjOiRnWR4az9LKXJFA&nd=1&dlsi=44c4e94d871c4bac

Rain - The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA

Any other business.

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.

Sam is on Bluesky (@samuelstafford.bsky.social) and Instagram (@samuel__stafford). His blog contains a link to his newsletter.

  continue reading

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