50 Shades of Planning The Mortar Bombs of Division
Sam Stafford had planned more of a ramble-type chat with Pete Swift, Jonathan Easton and Claire Petricca-Riding, but, reflective of the news that has dominated the agenda of late, their conversation, recorded online, focuses on planning for the environment and specifically nutrient neutrality and net zero.
They talk less about the nuts and bolts, practical implications of the respective recent announcements in these areas (links below) and more about the political narrative. Thanks largely to Pete the conversation gets quite philosophical at times and Sam hopes that it is all the more interesting for that.
This being the 50 Shades of Planning podcast Listeners can though look forward to a little bit of housing target chat as well.
Some accompanying reading.
House of Lords Built Environment Committee’s report on the impact of environmental regulations on development
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7328/the-impact-of-environmental-regulations-on-development/
Government neutrality update on 29 August
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nutrient-neutrality-announcement-explainer
Government neutrality update on 20 September
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nutrient-neutrality-update
Sunak to rip up green rules to build 140,000 homes despite Labour and Natural England opposition (£)
PM speech on Net Zero: 20 September 2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-on-net-zero-20-september-2023
The affordability impacts of new housing supply: A summary of recent research
https://www.london.gov.uk/media/102314/download
How housing targets are stopping us building enough homes
https://longwall.substack.com/p/how-housing-targets-are-stopping
UK Green Building Council’s ‘Embodied Ecological Impacts knowledge Hub’
https://ukgbc.org/our-work/topics/embodied-ecological-impacts/
Require planning fees be ringfenced for planning services
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643493
Small builders, big burdens
https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/small-builders-big-burdens
Southwark’s Land Commission
https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/southwark-land-commission
Some accompanying viewing.
Richard Curtis uses Al Pacino’s Any Given Sunday speech to inspire global action on climate change
Some accompanying listening.
This can’t go on – Bill Ryder-Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUoDKTVEac
50 Shades T-Shirts!
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html