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50 Shades of Planning — 180 episodes

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Title
1

Viable Options

2

Why do places look the way they do?

3

Vibes and Stuff

4

Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield

5

Emerging Planners

6

Meet the MPs - Lib Dems

7

Red Hot Planning Chat

8

All Around the World - New Zealand

9

Hitting the High Notes - Peter Soulsby

10

The Shard Inquiry

11

The Tip of the AIceberg

12

Meet the MPs - Labour

13

Reform, reform and more Reform

14

LGR

15

The West Midlands Problem (plus Grey Belt and some other stuff)

16

What is really wrong with the Habitats Regulations?

17

Some Things Just Take Time

18

New Towns: Practicalities & Placemaking

19

All Around the World - The Netherlands

20

Appeal Ready

21

Hitting the High Notes - Catriona Riddell

22

We❤️Planning

23

How Does Bad Policy Get Made?

24

The Return of Strategic Planning

25

🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2025🏆

26

🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄

27

Discretion Advised

28

The Snagging List II

29

All Around the World - Australia

30

Planorama

31

The Amazing Technicolour Green Belt

32

Who's In Control?

33

Hitting the High Notes - Alice Lester

34

What's Going On?

35

All Around the World - USA

36

New Politics, New Towns and New Books

37

Hitting the High Notes - Tim Waring

38

The Snagging List

39

All Builders Big and Small

40

Grey Belt: Policy Guidance and Appeals

41

A Conversation with Michael Gove

42

Pre-Apps, Puddles and NDMPs

43

The BNG

44

If I Ruled the World

45

Back in Black

46

A Brief History of Planning 2010-2024

47

100 Days of Labour

48

Not the NPPF

49

The YIMBY Crowd

50

The Masterplan

51

Hitting the High Notes - Mike Best

52

To Rebuild or to Retrofit?

53

Labour of Love

54

Let's Get Digital

55

Housing by Popular Demand

56

What Do We Want?

57

Efficiency Savings

58

Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt)

59

Love Thy Neighbourhood Plan

60

Grey Belt

61

A Hillside To Die On

62

Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby

63

Banishing Boxland

64

Capturing the Zeitgeist

65

Critical Infrastructure

66

Hitting the High Notes - Simon Ricketts

67

NPPF 2023 Update - What Next?

68

🏆The #Planoraks Awards 2023🏆

69

🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London🤶🏻

70

☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🎄

71

Pre-Apps and PPAs

72

A B~~~~~'s Muddle

73

Going Public

74

A Plan for England

75

A LURA LURA Laughs

76

Planning is Brilliant

77

A Conversation with Ben Everitt

78

The Mortar Bombs of Division

79

One Staircase or Two?

80

Last of the Summer Whine

81

Hitting the High Notes - Hashi Mohamed

82

Another Conversation with Clive Betts

83

The Power of Plans - New York

84

The Power of Plans - Dublin

85

The Power of Plans - Shenzen

86

An Engaging Conversation

87

Hitting the High Notes - Steve Quartermain

88

Licensed to IL

89

Life Lessons

90

All Politics is Local

91

No Hope?

92

A Conversation with Bethany Cullen

93

Planning for a Feminist City

94

Life on the Front Line II

95

What Does a Good Local Plan Look Like?

96

More Homes. Better Places. So Far As Possible.

97

🏆 The #Planoraks Awards 2022 🏆

98

🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Manchester🤶🏻

99

Call For Evidence - Life on the Front Line II

100

🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - London☃️

101

Catch Up

102

What Town Planners Do

103

A Home of One's Own

104

Hitting the High Notes - Peter Dixon

105

A Stimulating Growth Conversation

106

Neutral Impact II

107

An Esoteric Discussion about the Planning System

108

Housing People

109

A Gentle Conversation about Density

110

LURB

111

Hitting the High Notes - Anna Rose

112

Place, Politics and the Piece Hall

113

Three Things (or 'The 50 Shades Manifesto For Sensible Planning Reform')

114

Leading From The Front

115

Hitting the High Notes - Pete Swift

116

Call for Evidence - Three Things

117

Think Differently

118

No Little Plans

119

An Amassing of Think Tanks

120

Hitting the High Notes - Wayne Hemingway

121

Life on the Front Line

122

🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - The Final🎅🏻

123

🎄The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 2🎄

124

☃️The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz - Semi-Final 1☃️

125

Call for Evidence - Life on the Front Line

126

The Only Constant is Change

127

The Coastal Path

128

Doing Someone's Bidding

129

A Fairway to Solve the Housing Crisis

130

Hitting the High Notes - Paul Barnard

131

Our Friends in the North - Part 2

132

Our Friends in the North - Part 1

133

Where Are We Now?

134

Aging Well In Place

135

The Bin Lorry Effect

136

A Conversation with Clive Betts

137

Some Are More Equal Than Others

138

Hitting the High Notes - Ben Castell

139

Fudge

140

Cracking the Code

141

Hitting the High Notes - Victoria Hills

142

EA in the UK after the EU

143

Neutral Impact

144

The Unearned Increment

145

Can the British plan?

146

Reflections on 2020 - Part 2

147

Reflections on 2020 - Part 1

148

Tall Stories

149

Legal Eagles

150

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Freeholder

151

The High Street is dead, long live the High Street.

152

The Numbers Game

153

Places and Spaces

154

A Conversation with Chris Findley

155

Planning Reform Day

156

Jet Zero

157

DCOs, NPSs and NSIPs.

158

Crosstown Traffic

159

Rules of Engagement

160

Everybody Needs Good Neighbours

161

APC, easy as 1,2,3.

162

Stay Alert > Keep Planning > Improve Lives

163

The CaMKOx Arc. Behind the curve?

164

The London Plan. Capital Punishment?

165

Green Belt. Sacred Cow?

166

Planning and Coronavirus

167

The Fast-Paced, Ever-Changing, Rock and Roll World of Town and Country Planning

168

How and Where Can and Should More Homes be Built?

169

A Conversation with David Rudlin

170

Reasons to be Cheerful

171

🎅🏻The 50 Shades of Planning Festive Christmas Quiz🎄

172

How To Plan Strategically Without Strategic Planning

173

A Conversation with Bob Kerslake

174

Planning Committees - Cauldrons of Human Emotion

175

The Data Day

176

Trust Me, I'm A Planner.

177

A Conversation with Sean Anstee

178

The Need for Speed

179

Image Rights

180

Planning. Huh, Good God. What Is It Good For?