Why are we where we are? What are the obstacles to delivering more affordable housing and how might they be overcome? What is indisputable however is that the planning system has a huge role to play in all of this. Whether there is a housing crisis, or a challenge, or whether all of this is just a figment of the construction industry’s imagination, will depend upon whether you ask a single parent in emergency accommodation, a politician in electioneering mode or Simon Jenkins. The largest 19, excluding London, have collectively added around 1,200 affordable homes per annum over the last ten years. Research commissioned by the National Housing Federation and Crisis from Professor Glen Bramley at Heriot-Watt University in 2018 identified a need for 340,000 homes each year in England to 2031, including 145,000 affordable homes.Īccording though to recent research from Turley and Tetlow King, commissioned by the LPDF, it is estimated that only 35,500 net additional affordable homes have been delivered on average in each of the last ten years.ĭelivery is especially poor in the country’s largest urban centres. Housing, 50 Shades listeners, will know, is slap bang in the middle of the intersection between planning and politics and nothing offers both the illustration and impact of this than affordable housing.
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There are at least fifty shades in between.
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BECG are on Twitter at and online at Why Fifty Shades? Well, planning is not a black and white endeavor. The 50 Shades of Planning Podcast is produced in association with BECG - the Built Environment Communications Group. Sam is on Twitter and his blogs can be found here. Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'._
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_'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. Think Desert Island Discs, but for planners! If you would like to feature on 'Hitting The High Notes', or know somebody that would make a great guest, please email you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that. 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.
#FIFTY SHADES MEANDER SERIES#
50 Shades of Planning is about 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.ĥ0 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which is a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. Sam Stafford started writing the 50 Shades of Planning blog in 2012 and in 2019 turned it into a podcast.