{"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":"Hitting the High Notes - Tim Waring","slug":"hitting-the-high-notes-tim-waring","published_at":"2025-07-19T09:00:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/hitting-the-high-notes-tim-waring","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819","url":"https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning/hitting-the-high-notes-tim-waring","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/b6f9f0f9-d7fe-4a5a-836c-563849ec1a3e/b0e8db9a-dfe5-4844-a17f-dd7f8f906afe.mp3","summary":"This episode sees the welcome return of the Hitting the High Notes series, the basic proposition of which is that 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 listeners can get to know people a little better personally, for every project or stage of their career Sam also asks his guests for a piece of music that reminds them of that period. Think of it as town planning’s equivalent of Desert Island Discs. Unlike Desert Island Discs though you will no 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 there are links to You Tube videos and a Spotify playlist below. Sam's guest for this episode of Hitting the High Notes is Tim Waring, who retired in 2025 after a near 40 year career in planning consultancy. Sam's conversation with Tim was recorded at Distorted Studios in Leeds in March 2025, little over a month after Tim left Quod, for whom he opened an office back in 2014, the third planning team that he established in the city. They talked about out of centre retail development in Worthing and Stockport; town centre redevelopment in Beverley and Leeds; and residential development in Ripon and York. Tim also shares his golden rules of planning consultancy. Some accompanying listening. Fools Gold – The Stone Roses The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong – The Jam Confusion – New Order Heroes – David Bowie The Narcissist – Blur North Country Boy - The Charlatans Tim’s High Notes Spotify Playlist Sam’s Indie Disco Spotify Playlist Any other business. 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode…","meta_description":"This episode sees the welcome return of the Hitting the High Notes series, the basic proposition of which is that Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3223,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/episodes/hitting-the-high-notes-tim-waring/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/hitting-the-high-notes-tim-waring.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}