{"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":"We❤️Planning","slug":"we-planning","published_at":"2026-02-07T10:00:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/we-planning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/50-shades-of-planning-1168819","url":"https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning/we-love-planning","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/b6f9f0f9-d7fe-4a5a-836c-563849ec1a3e/69b92ef4-5e37-49c5-abbf-a0cfc5158a92.mp3","summary":"Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to record the first ‘catch up’-style episode with some of his friends working in the West Midlands. In a conversation recorded at PodHaus studios, Kathryn Ventham , Myles Wild-Smith , Michelle Simpson-Gallego and Sam enjoyed a rambling conversation that takes in, amongst other things, the extent to which Grey Belt is driving the increase in planning applications for new homes; the ‘grit in the system’, particularly stat cons, specifically water companies, and the RP / S106 stock issue; plan-making in the West Midlands, the case for a national spatial plan; and why it is that most young people have never heard of the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning. Some accompanying reading. Policy statement: a roadmap for Section 106 delivery in England Making sense of the roadmap: will MHCLG’s latest attempts to kickstart Section 106 affordable housing deliver? Greater Affordable Housing Flex Announced For Some Stalled Schemes; Other Announcements On Affordable Housing & On S106 A new vision for water: white paper RTPI West Midlands Young Planners Public Practice is recruiting multiple new roles for its Board, including a new Chair and two Non-Executive Directors 2026 Housing Design Awards Entries Now Open Awards for Planning Excellence 2026 Housing Quick Wins: Call for Evidence Removing grit from the planning system and speeding up the process Some accompanying viewing. Brookbanks Podcast Episode #9: 2025 reflections, a year of change for the planning industry? Some accompanying listening. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children Any other business. If you enjoy the episode do please consider bolstering Sam's fragile self-esteem by leaving the podcast a nice…","meta_description":"Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity to record the first ‘catch up’-style episode with some of his friends working in the West…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3631,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/50-shades-of-planning-1168819/episodes/we-planning/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/we-planning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}