The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz
12/13/19 • 48 min
Full of festive cheer (and sherry), Sam Stafford quizzes Greg Dickson, Paul Smith, David Diggle, Andrew Jalali, Vicky Payne and Tom Whitehead on some of the stories that have caught the eye in 2019. Expect an attempt at humour at the start, an appearance from a very special guest at the end and some bad cracker jokes in between...
For those interested in the topics that are discussed there is some reading here:
January
Mr Brokenshire’s big intervention stick.
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2018/08/mr-brokenshires-big-intervention-stick.html
February
Portsmouth council plans to reclaim land from sea for homes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-47142979
March
The latest act in the GMSF play.
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-latest-installment-in-long-running.html
MHCLG’s resourcing and skills survey.
https://local.gov.uk/pas/pas-topics/monitoring/survey-planning-departments-2019
April
In memory of the Englishman who kept a shark on his roof.
May
The National Audit Office’s investigation into the government’s land disposal strategy and programmes.
https://www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-into-the-governments-land-disposal-strategy/
June
Juries for plan-making.
July
Record temperatures across Europe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49108847
August
The Towns Fund.
September
Robert Jenrick likes tree-lined streets.
October
The CPRE likes Green Belt.
November
Government confirms fracking moratorium and drops proposed permitted development rights.
December
How does your garden grow?
Full of festive cheer (and sherry), Sam Stafford quizzes Greg Dickson, Paul Smith, David Diggle, Andrew Jalali, Vicky Payne and Tom Whitehead on some of the stories that have caught the eye in 2019. Expect an attempt at humour at the start, an appearance from a very special guest at the end and some bad cracker jokes in between...
For those interested in the topics that are discussed there is some reading here:
January
Mr Brokenshire’s big intervention stick.
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2018/08/mr-brokenshires-big-intervention-stick.html
February
Portsmouth council plans to reclaim land from sea for homes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-47142979
March
The latest act in the GMSF play.
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-latest-installment-in-long-running.html
MHCLG’s resourcing and skills survey.
https://local.gov.uk/pas/pas-topics/monitoring/survey-planning-departments-2019
April
In memory of the Englishman who kept a shark on his roof.
May
The National Audit Office’s investigation into the government’s land disposal strategy and programmes.
https://www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-into-the-governments-land-disposal-strategy/
June
Juries for plan-making.
July
Record temperatures across Europe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49108847
August
The Towns Fund.
September
Robert Jenrick likes tree-lined streets.
October
The CPRE likes Green Belt.
November
Government confirms fracking moratorium and drops proposed permitted development rights.
December
How does your garden grow?
Previous Episode
How to plan strategically without strategic planning
10 January 2020, as planners working in the West Midlands will know, is the date by which the 37,900 home shortfall identified in the Birmingham Development Plan needs to have been accommodated by the other local planning authorities in the Greater Birmingham Housing Market Area. In this episode Sam Stafford chats with Mike Best (Senior Director at Turley (@bestlaidplan)), Mark Parkinson (Economic Development & Planning Policy Manager at Staffordshire County Council (@MarkA_Parkinson)), and Craig Jordan (Head of Economic Growth & Development at Lichfield District Council) about the progress that has been made towards meeting this deadline. The shortfall issue, as Sam and his guests explore during the discussion, brings into sharp focus the difficulties that policy planners have planning for greater-than-local issues without a statutory basis to do so.
Sam and Mike's previous blogs on the shortfall can be found here:
http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2018/08/devolution-birmingham-shortfall-4.html
https://mikesbestlaidplans.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/nobody-said-it-was-easy/
Next Episode
Reasons to be cheerful
Is planning in England, as asserted by the Raynsford Review, really less effective than at any time in the post-war era? Chris Shepley, a former Chief Planning Inspector and member of the Raynsford Review panel, said that the report was produced at a time when planning is probably at its lowest ebb since 1947. Really? Does the breadth and influence of the profession now not make it more impactful than ever? As a consequence of that is it not more important than ever that planners have influence at every tier of public policy-making?
These questions are the basis of a conversation that Sam Stafford has in this episode with Victoria Hills, Chief Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and latterly Chief Executive of the Old Oak & Park Royal Development Corporation; Peter Rees CBE, Professor of Places & City Planning at UCL and former Chief City Planner at the City of London; and Nicki Linihan of NJL Solutions and latterly interim Director of Planning at the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and former Head of Planning and Transport at Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.
The Raynsford Review can be read here:
https://www.tcpa.org.uk/raynsford-review
The RTPI’s research into the role of Chief Planning Officers can be read here:
https://www.rtpi.org.uk/knowledge/research/projects/chief-planning-officers/
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