Show Notes
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
SME sites for SME builders
https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2023/11/sme-sites-for-sme-builders.html
The Corry Review
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Some accompanying listening.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Rain - The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA
Any other business.
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