Thomson speaks

Sam Stafford has done an excellent job in maintaining a high quality podcast for a number of years

Whilst other friends of Bellona were enjoying well-earned holidays across Europe at the end of August, our founder was busy chatting through issues as discrete as SME housebuilding and data centres on Sam Stafford’s well-established Fifty Shades of Planning podcast series.

The full sixty minute chat, with a range of luminaries well-known across the UK planning profession, covered:

…..water neutrality and about statutory consultees, specifically the need to engage utility providers with the Spatial Development Strategy process; the merits of locally-set application fees; grant funding for affordable housing; the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill, which led on to Assets of Community Value; the use of hotels for the accommodation of asylum seekers; Level 7 Apprenticeships; and data centres.

We’re biased, but it’s a great listen; give it a whirl here.