Sam Stafford will join Ian Harvey to discuss the recent Labour Planning Reforms announcements, potentially the NPPF consultation, and why he decided to host the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast.   

This event is free for all to attend.

Sam has been a Chartered Town Planner since 2002 and has accumulated skills and experiences from across the property sector during this time.  In the early stages of his career Sam worked for a housebuilder in South Yorkshire, a planning and landscape consultancy and, following a move to Ripponden, Calderdale Council's development control team. The majority of Sam's experience between 2006 and 2014 was in development management as a planning consultant in multi-disciplinary environments.

In 2014 Sam joined Barratt Development and his work as a Regional Strategic Land Director involved working with the Divisional Barratt and David Wilson businesses in the North West and the West Midlands on their strategic land portfolios, engaging in so doing with local plans and national planning policy. Sam joined HBF in July 2022.

Sam hosts the popular podcast https://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/  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. 

Sam is the ideal guest for an #inconversation with Civic Voice.

The Zoom link details will be provided 48 hours before the event.