{"podcast":{"title":"50 Shades of Planning","slug":"50-shades-of-planning-1168819","podcast_index_feed_id":1168819,"rss_url":"https://feed.pod.co/50-shades-of-planning","website_url":"https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning","image_url":"https://images.pod.co/5mS4nT6SQ3R4_geO4VUXYGg3bhYRQVG3qwYGGgh0ock/resize:fill:1500:1500/plain/artwork/04acffea-73a6-4d39-813c-a571d416c0f1/50-shades-of-planning-1744212704.jpg","author":"Samuel Stafford","episode_count":168,"summary":"50 Shades of Planning is Sam Stafford’s attempt to explore the foibles of the English planning system and it's aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different experiences and perspectives. 50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which are a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. The conversations take in the six milestone planning permissions or projects within a contributor’s career and for every project guests are invited to choose a piece of music that they were listening to at that time...","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819"},"episode":{"title":"All Around the World - The Netherlands","slug":"all-around-the-world-the-netherlands","published_at":"2026-03-21T10:00:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/all-around-the-world-the-netherlands","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819","url":"https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning/all-around-the-world-the-netherlands","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/b6f9f0f9-d7fe-4a5a-836c-563849ec1a3e/e2a7b6eb-e0ea-486f-bc7d-06f043398626.mp3","summary":"This is the third of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith . Paul put it to Sam Stafford that debates about the planning system in England tend, for the most part, to focus solely on the planning system in England. We very seldom look to other countries for inspiration and ideas. Paul wanted to remedy that and so in this series he is chatting with planning professionals and academics from a number of countries to find out what works well there, what works less well, and what can we learn. In this episode Paul chats to Jannes Willems and Lilian van Karnenbeek about planning in the Netherlands. In a conversation recorded online in October 2025 they talked about a new Dutch Environment & Planning Act; subsidiarity between the three levels of Dutch planning; active and passive land use policy; public engagement in the Dutch system; cycling obviously; and the role of land reclamation in making planning so central to Dutch culture. Some accompanying reading. Insights on the Dutch Environment & Planning Act Icons of Dutch Spatial Planning Brilliant Orange 50 Shades T-Shirts Save The Date: Live Event 1 June 2026 Public Sector RTPI Survey Private Sector RTPI Survey Identifying the delays and barriers experienced in the planning applications process Planning in the Pub Some accompanying listening The Fall – Kurious Oranj Any other business. If you enjoy the episode do please consider bolstering Sam's fragile self-esteem by leaving the podcast a nice rating and a nice review wherever you listened to it. Obviously though if you have not enjoyed it then please do not leave a review, but do please feel free to let Sam know why (via samstafford@hotmail.com). Feedback on 50 Shades episodes is always welcome. If you have enjoyed to the e…","meta_description":"This is the third of a series of episodes being led by the oldest friend of the podcast, Paul Smith . Paul put it to Sam Stafford that debates about the p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2980,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/episodes/all-around-the-world-the-netherlands/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/all-around-the-world-the-netherlands.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}