Hitting the High Notes - Anna Rose

06/25/22 • 58 min

Hitting The High Notes is town planning’s equivalent of Desert Island Discs. In these episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or projects that helped to shape them as professionals. And, so that we can get to know people a little better personally, for every permission or project Sam asks his guests for a piece of music that reminds them of that period of their career.

Unlike Desert Island Discs you will not hear any of that music during the episode because using commercially-licensed music without the copyright holders permission or a very expensive PRS licensing agreement could land Sam in hot water, so, when you have finished listening to this episode, you will have to make do with YouTube videos and a Spotify playlist, links to which you will find below.

Sam's guest for this episode of Hitting The High Notes is Anna Rose. After eschewing a career in fashion, Anna worked as a legal advisor at the National Farmers Union before joining Rugby Borough Council and working her way to become Head of Planning & Culture. After a spell as Service Director at Milton Keynes Council, Anna (@EPlanna) has since 2017 been the Head of the Planning Advisory Service (@pas_team) at the Local Government Association. Sam and Anna's conversation takes in the relationships and skills required to plan strategically and deliver major new development; leadership and systems thinking; and LPA recruitment practices.

Anna's song selections.

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw

Human - The Killers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZdjT1472Y

Try – P!NK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M

Zombie – Jamie T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PU4d5Iogd4

Tilted – Christine & The Queens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptu3TFmF0Jo

If I Got It (Your Love brought It) – Aaron Frazer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNBg35ItSo

Anna's Spotify playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4NqDjMStSYGn3tlmBEYPR0?si=uGKpLS7mSSSyoTI3Sj8QuQ

Some accompanying reading

The Planning Advisory Service

https://www.local.gov.uk/latest-news-pas

Houlton, Rugby

https://houltonrugby.co.uk/

MK Futures 2050

https://www.mkfutures2050.com/

PAS' 'Return To Work' project

https://www.local.gov.uk/return-to-work-planning

50 Shades T-Shirts!

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

Anna's song selections.

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw

Human - The Killers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZdjT1472Y

Try – P!NK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M

Zombie – Jamie T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PU4d5Iogd4

Tilted – Christine & The Queens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptu3TFmF0Jo

If I Got It (Your Love brought It) – Aaron Frazer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNBg35ItSo

Anna's Spotify playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4NqDjMStSYGn3tlmBEYPR0?si=uGKpLS7mSSSyoTI3Sj8QuQ

Some accompanying reading

The Planning Advisory Service

https://www.local.gov.uk/latest-news-pas

Houlton, Rugby

https://houltonrugby.co.uk/

MK Futures 2050

https://www.mkfutures2050.com/

PAS' 'Return To Work' project

https://www.local.gov.uk/return-to-work-planning

50 Shades T-Shirts!

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

Previous Episode

Place, Politics & The Piece Hall

When Sam Stafford saw that Create Streets and Onward were bringing their 'Restitch' conference to Halifax's Piece Hall, his favourite building, he could not have been more excited. He was though even more excited when the organisers agreed to let him set up a 'pop-up' recording studio at the back of one of the breakout rooms so as to record conversations with some of the conference's contributors during the day.

This bumper episode then is the accumulation of those recorded conversations and in it you will hear from (broken down into time slots if you are dipping in and out):

2m:35s

Ben Page, Chief Executive Officer, Ipsos (@benatipsos)

16m:05s

Andrew Taylor, Group Planning Director, Countryside (@AndrewJTaylor3) & Pete Gladwell, Group Social Impact & Investment Director, L&G (@petegladwell)

28m:48s

Amy Burbidge, Senior Master Development and Design Manager, Homes England (@AmyBurbidge2); Mike Axon, Managing Director, Vectos: and David Milner, Deputy Director, Create Streets (@djjmilner)

49m:00s

Neil O’Brien, Harborough MP & Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DLUHC (@NeilDotObrien)

54m:45s

Nicky Chance-Thompson, Chief Executive, The Piece Hall Trust (@NickyChanThomDL)

01h:07m:00s

Tim Swift, Leader of Calderdale Council (@TimSwift)

01h:23m:10s

Nicholas Boys Smith, Director, Create Streets (@boys_nicholas)

Some accompanying reading

The 'Piece Hall Effect' is bringing millions into Calderdale's economy, new report reveals

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/piece-hall-effect-bringing-millions-calderdales-economy-new-report-reveals-1746319

Some accompanying viewing/listening

Gravity by Embrace, live at The Piece Hall (Sam was there)

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2421918771409236

50 Shades T-Shirts!

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

Next Episode

LURB

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