The Planning Committee Meets

Local councils, planning and the streets you live on

Rosalind Achebe2 episodes2 min of audio34 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Jan 21, 20260:4923 plays Preview

Why the Cycle Lane Consultation Got 3,000 Replies

A cycle lane consultation in a mid-sized city drew 3,000 responses and two petitions. Rosalind asks a council transport officer and a residents' group what the replies said and how they were weighed.

S1 · E1Dec 29, 20250:5111 plays Members

Supermarket on the Car Park, Application 2024/0417

A real planning application to build a supermarket on a council car park, read page by page: the officer's report, the objections, the highways study and the vote, with the planner who wrote the recom…

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The Planning Committee Meets is a calm fortnightly show about local government and urban planning in Britain, hosted by Rosalind Achebe, who served two terms as a Manchester councillor and chaired a planning committee. Each episode takes one decision a council makes and explains it from the inside: how a bin collection contract is awarded, why a cycle lane consultation produced 3,000 responses, what a local plan is and why it takes five years, how a council tax rate is set, who decides whether a supermarket gets built on a car park. Rosalind interviews council officers, planners, developers and residents' groups, and reads the actual committee papers so you do not have to. Episodes run 35 to 45 minutes. It is for anyone who has sat in a public gallery wondering what the acronyms meant, for residents thinking about standing for their council, and for people who simply want to understand why the road outside their house looks the way it does.

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