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Our Special Guest this week, returning for a fourth time, is Joanna Averley, Chief Planner at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. We ask Joanna about the current and pending reforms to planning law and policy. An Appeal Decision involving Churchill Retirement Living against Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council regarding planning permission for redevelopment to form a multigenerational community comprising 177 open market, affordable and retirement living apartments, 237 square metres of Class E commercial space, communal facilities, access, car parking, landscaping and all associated works at the former Southern Gas Network Site, Christchurch. The appeal was made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on an application for planning permission.A Decision of the Secretary of State for Transport on the proposed expansion of Luton Airport. The application would grant development consent for the expansion of London Luton Airport to enable an increase in overall passenger capacity to 32 million passengers per year. The application also includes the construction of a new passenger terminal, additional aircraft stands and associated redevelopment of existing facilities and infrastructure. An Appeal Decision involving Galliford Try Investments (GTI) against the decision of Milton Keynes Council with the view to demolish a vacant 2-storey building (Class E) and the erection of a 33-storey building comprising commercial floor space (Class E) on the ground floor and mezzanine level with residential units on upper floors comprising up to 302 dwellings and associated works, at Jaipur and Orchard Lounge, 599 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes. The appeal was made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning (T&CP) Act 1990 (as amended) against a refusal to grant planning permission.Visit our Website:hwgpnfy.com

Our Special Guest this week is Andreas Markides, Chairman of Markides Associates & Author of Urban Myths. Latest News Update on planning related matters. Decision of the Court of Appeal in R (oaf Substation Action Save East Suffolk Ltd) v Secretary & State for Energy Security & Net Zero & others [2024] EWCA Civ 12 dismissing an appeal against the decision of the Lang J who had refused a claim for judicial review of two decisions by the first respondent to make development consent orders under section 114 of the Planning Act 2008 for two nationally significant infrastructure projects for onshore and offshore windfarms. The first ground of challenge relates to flood risk and the application of the sequential test, the second, to the decision on the cumulative impacts. Decision of the High Court, Holgate J dated 17 January 2024 in R (oao Aysen Dennis) v London Borough of Southwark & Notting Hill Genesis [2023] EWHC 3210 (Admin) who granted an application for judicial review quashing the Council's decision under section 96A to make a non-material amendment to an outline planning permission for the phased redevelopment & regeneration of the Aylesbury Estate on the grounds that the introduction of “severable” was material. Decision of a Planning Inspector dated 17th January 2024 to dismiss an appeal by Templeview Developments Ltd against the refusal of Milton Keynes Council to grant full planning permission for the change of use of agricultural land to a linear park, new access road and stopping up and outline planning permission for 277 C2 extra care apartments, a 70 bed care home, 41 retirement bungalows & up to 196 C3 homes. Issues around effect on neighbouring properties including the agent of change principle, history, and living conditions of future residents.

In this episode of Procurement Reimagined, host Daniel is joined by Gary Salterpicco, Procurement Lead at John Lewis Partnership, the holding company for John Lewis department stores and Waitrose. Gary shares his insights on topical issues within the procurement space, including conversations in procurement, rebranding procurement internally at organisations, and the role of internal audit in procurement. Gary is a Chartered Procurement Professional and a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, with over 35 years in leadership roles at organisations like the Milton Keynes Council, London Borough of Brent, and currently at John Lewis Partnership. He is a skilled professional with experience managing Procurement Teams and Systems Teams in both Private and Public Sector Organisations. Episode Resources: Gary Salterpicco on LinkedIn John Lewis Partnership Website Procurement Reimagined Podcast Daniel Barnes on LinkedIn If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify Check out Procurement Reimagined Podcast Book a call with a Vendor and Contract Management Expert - https://www.gatekeeperhq.com/book-gk-demo-step-1 GATEKEEPER'S GUIDE TO VENDOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Actionable checklists, tips, and best practices. Download the ebook now for FREE: https://www.gatekeeperhq.com/free-vendor-management-ebook Would you or someone you know be a great fit for the podcast? Please fill out the Procurement Reimagined Guest Questionnaire Procurement Reimagined Podcast is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.so Previous guests include Sarah Kaye of Spin, Hannah MacDonald of Monzo Bank, Dave Jones MCIPS of Procmentum Limited, Andra Fola of Solutionary Minds, Natalia Pilipchak of Mobile Tele Systems, Rees Thomas of Graze, Nadia Stoykov of Tesca Group, Canda Rozier of Collabra Consulting, Elouise Epstein of Kearney, and Matthew Booth of PM Group. Check out our five most downloaded episodes: Reimagining Procurement by Filling Implementation Gaps with Nadia Stoykov, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer at Tesca Group Reimagining Procurement in an Economic Downturn with Andra Fola, Co-Founder of Solutionary Minds Aligning Cost Control and Cost Cutting to Drive Value with Sarah Kaye, Vice President of Procurement at Spin Reimagining Procurement as the Hidden Treasure for Business Growth with Natalia Pilipchak, Transformation and Excellence Director at Mobile Tele Systems A Playbook for Digitalising Procurement with Rees Thomas, Head of Procurement at Graze

 For the fourth year in a row the government has handed councils a single year finance settlement, albeit with some indication of what to expect for the following year. After more than a decade of funding restraint and in the face of high inflation, the uncertainty of single year budgets adds to councils' challenges in planning services. In this episode of The Local Authority, LGC, along with our partners TPXimpact, wanted to explore how councils are managing these circumstances. Joining LGC editor Sarah Calkin this month is Patrick Melia, chief executive at Sunderland City Council; Cllr Peter Marland (Lab), leader of Milton Keynes Council and Joanne Pitt, head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy. Available on all podcast platforms now. 

Across the nations, regions, towns and cities of the UK, a new way of doing politics is emerging.Far from the adversarial politics encouraged by Westminster's first-past-the-post electoral system, politicians and people are working together across parties for progressive change.Joining us to discuss the art, benefits and challenges of progressive alliances are:Anthony Slaughter, Leader of the Wales Green Party, which recently announced an electoral alliance with Plaid Cymru in CardiffLucy Nethsingha, Liberal Democrat Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, which is run in a joint administration with Labour and independentsPeter Marland, Labour & Co-operative Leader of Milton Keynes Council, which is run by a ‘Progressive Alliance' of Labour and the Lib Dems.It's Bloody Complicated is recorded every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Become a Compass member to join our live recordings and put your questions to our guests: https://action.compassonline.org.uk/podcastSupport the show

Hitting The High Notes is town planning's equivalent of Desert Island Discs. In these episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or projects that helped to shape them as professionals. And, so that we can get to know people a little better personally, for every permission or project Sam asks his guests for a piece of music that reminds them of that period of their career. Unlike Desert Island Discs you will not hear any of that music during the episode because using commercially-licensed music without the copyright holders permission or a very expensive PRS licensing agreement could land Sam in hot water, so, when you have finished listening to this episode, you will have to make do with YouTube videos and a Spotify playlist, links to which you will find below. Sam's guest for this episode of Hitting The High Notes is Anna Rose. After eschewing a career in fashion, Anna worked as a legal advisor at the National Farmers Union before joining Rugby Borough Council and working her way to become Head of Planning & Culture. After a spell as Service Director at Milton Keynes Council, Anna (@EPlanna) has since 2017 been the Head of the Planning Advisory Service (@pas_team) at the Local Government Association. Sam and Anna's conversation takes in the relationships and skills required to plan strategically and deliver major new development; leadership and systems thinking; and LPA recruitment practices. Anna's song selections. Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw Human - The Killers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZdjT1472Y Try – P!NK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M Zombie – Jamie T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PU4d5Iogd4 Tilted – Christine & The Queens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptu3TFmF0Jo If I Got It (Your Love brought It) – Aaron Frazer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNBg35ItSo Anna's Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4NqDjMStSYGn3tlmBEYPR0?si=uGKpLS7mSSSyoTI3Sj8QuQ Some accompanying reading The Planning Advisory Service https://www.local.gov.uk/latest-news-pas Houlton, Rugby https://houltonrugby.co.uk/ MK Futures 2050 https://www.mkfutures2050.com/ PAS' 'Return To Work' project https://www.local.gov.uk/return-to-work-planning 50 Shades T-Shirts! If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast 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

The mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson has had her sentence for causing or allowing her daughter's death increased to 12 years. The jail sentence handed to the mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson was "too low", the attorney general said at the end of 2021 Attorney General Suella Braverman said this was "unduly lenient" and referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal. Ms Braverman MP said: "This is a tragic and extremely upsetting case and my thoughts are with all those who loved Star Hobson Star died in 2020 after months of "neglect, cruelty and injury" Update on Star Hobson killer as sentencing reviewed by Court of Appeal (maliceaforethoughtuk.wixsite.com) also:- An inquest into the death of City Council highways officer Richard Woodcock, aged 38 on 26th June 2021 was held earlier this month at Milton Keynes Coroner's Court Coroner Tom Osborne ruled that Mr Woodcock was unlawfully killed, and a post-mortem into his death showed he had suffered traumatic head injuries, consistent with repeated blows to the head. So what circumstances arose which led to the horrific murder of a young professional man described as "a very popular man" within Milton Keynes Council. in a residential area in his home town? Heroic neighbour paid ultimate price for assisting a woman in distress (maliceaforethoughtuk.wixsite.com) VISIT OUR WEBSITE With Malice Aforethought UK |a UK crime forum podcast & blog JOIN OUR FORUM With Malice Aforethought UK |a UK crime forum podcast & blog FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @AFORETHOUGHTUK LISTEN ON APPLE, SPOTIFY OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW

Rising utilities charges have been hitting the headlines for a number of months, and with the energy bills price cap set to rise from £1,277 to over £2,000 in April we look at how landlords – and their tenants – will be affected. Presenters NRLA Chief Executive Ben Beadle (@BeadleBen) and Richard Blanco (@richardblanco_) talk to landlord Elahe Taylor, who offers rentals with and without bundled bills about how she is planning to manage the impact of increased charges. They also welcome Susan Aktemel, of ethical lettings agency Homes for Good, to find out how tenants are coping with rising bills and what support Government could offer to help them. Elsewhere Catherine Behdad of the NRLA advice team talks about the hot topics on the phonelines throughout the month, including issues with gas and electricity bills. We also shine the spotlight on training. The NRLA has recently signed a new deal with Milton Keynes Council, which is paying for private sector landlords in the area to become members of the NRLA, where they can work to become accredited by the association. The move is part of a bid to drive up standards across the area and Ben and Richard are joined by Lucy Tucker, the council's private sector housing manager, who talks about how the new partnership will work, along with local landlord Leah Musana who discusses the benefits of accreditation from a landlord's perspective. If you enjoy the show, please spread the word on your social media channels using the hashtag #listenuplandlords.   For all podcast enquiries email press@nrla.org.uk   ACCREDITATION: You can now pick up a CPD point to be used towards NRLA accreditation by listening to the podcast. To log your point, visit the accreditation dashboard in the ‘Your Account' section of the NRLA website. Select ‘Other' then ‘NRLA Podcast' from the dropdown menu.  More information  If you would like further details on how to become accredited with the NRLA click here. For further details about bespoke training packages – which are available to groups and local authorities click here. Guest Biographies   Elahe Taylor Elahe began her rental business in South Manchester nearly 25 years ago, investing in two-bedroomed terraced houses to be let to families. After moving to the south-east she invested in licenced HMOs for students from the University of Hertfordshire. She is part of an accreditation scheme for landlords, called “PAL” (Partnership Accreditation for Landlords) established by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and the university and holds Gold status. Susan Aktemel Dr Susan Aktemel is Executive Director of Homes for Good Social Business Group. Susan started her career in adult education. In 1991 she committed to using her skills to help people improve their lives. From 1994-2012 she created and grew Impact Arts, now a leading, dynamic Scottish charity.  Susan then combined her property experience with her commitment to improving people's lives to create Scotland's first social enterprise letting agency, with the aim of changing the private rented sector for people who need homes most. Since 2014 she has raised over £17 million in social investment for Homes for Good, a whole of market letting agency, with particular interest in supporting people on low incomes. Lucy Tucker Lucy is private sector housing manager at Milton Keynes Council and has been instrumental in sitting up the training partnership between the local authority and the NRLA. Leah Musana Leah, from Milton Keynes, has been a professional landlord since 2015 and became accredited with the NRLA shortly thereafter. Her portfolio has grown to include standard buy-to-let properties, HMOs and a short-term accommodation business specialising in the corporate sector, which includes insurance companies and relocation agents.  She is passionate about raising the standard of accommodation in the private rental sector and her mission is to provide warm, safe and comfortable homes.

Providing efficient, cost-effective transport that helps reach sustainability goals has always been part of Milton Keynes' long-term plans. But the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a catalyst for making demand-responsive transport part of the city's immediate future, explain Adele Wearing, Strategic Lead for Passenger Transport at Milton Keynes Council and Councillor Lauren Townsend.

In this week's episode Michael H Hallett discusses how porn addiction got a hold of him during his time working for a large software company in the US during the start of the information/technology boom. Michael is passionate about a truly holistic wellbeing -- physical, mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual. He is devoted to exposing society's historical shame about the emotional and sexual aspects of our lives and facilitating freedom from that shame, with all the improved wellbeing it brings. A former member of the ChildLine Schools Service that delivers workshops on recognising all forms of abuse to UK primary schools. In 2012, Micheal co-founded CandleSpark, which delivered peer support sessions and workshops around self-harm to local agencies including Milton Keynes' Police Community Support Officers. Stepping Stones: Building School Capacity to Resist Radicalisation is a primary school workshop co-created with the Milton Keynes Council's Ethnic Minority Achievement team. The core of the workshop is a clearly defined 8-stage emotional process of radicalisation. Stepping Stones has been successfully delivered to local primary schools and is now reaching for a wider audience. Currently creating online courses and workshops to help men to understand the root cause of pornography addiction and transcend it. To find out more about Michael and his amazing work click here, https://www.michaelhhallett.com or find him on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhhallett/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-10kmonth-podcast/message

December 2018 In this second of our two episodes this month we bring you two more interviews from our Oral History Archive. Our Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and his team have collected over 450 interviews in the last 7 years with our Veterans’. Now with the support of Milton Keynes Council the project is being extended to include local people with connections to the wartime Bletchley Park. Judith Wainer couldn’t have been a closer neighbour to Station X as she lived on Wilton Avenue. Her family had senior GC&CS staff billeted on them but she never got to see what was inside the fence that was literally at the end of her road. In this interview she is joined by her childhood friend Jean Cheshire who grew up with her family during WW2 living in Cottage 2 within that very fence, as her father Robert was Chief Groundsman, Quartermaster, driver and Head of the Refreshment Hut. Jimmy Thirsk joined the Intelligence Corps in April 1942, first serving at Beaumanor before coming to the Home of The Codebreakers later that year. Even at the age of 100, when this interview was recorded, his detailed recall of the vitally important Traffic Analysis work he did in the SIXTA Group is astonishing. In memoriam, James “Jimmy” Thirsk (1914-2018) Image of Jimmy Thirsk: ©Jimmy Thirsk #BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #OralHistory

December 2018 In the first of two episodes this month we bring you three interviews of Veterans and local people from our Oral History Archive. Our Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and his team have collected over 450 interviews in the last 7 years. He tells us about a new project, being run with the support of Milton Keynes Council, to extend our archive to include local people with connections to the wartime Bletchley Park. At the outbreak of World War 2 Val Pinker was a teenager living in Wolverton Park House. She recalls her mother’s horror at the thought of having evacuees and instead had 4 members of staff from GC&CS billeted on her for the rest of the war. Gwendoline Herbert was not only a local but after an interview with her headmistress, started work as a civilian in the Transport Section at the home of the code breakers. Betty Lawrie’s memories of her time working for The Foreign Office at Bletchley Park are as clear as day, including her part in getting a grandmother of a future Royal pickled. Image courtesy of Mrs Betty Lawrie. #BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #OralHistory

In August, Milton Keynes Council's taxi licensing department was mired in controversy when it was revealed that taxi driver Nadeem Ahmed Kiani had been working in the city for three years - despite having convictions for rape and serious sexual assault. An internal investigation is still taking place into how such an error was allowed to happen, while two councillors who sat on the committee that granted Mr Kiani his licence, Gladstone McKenzie and Stuart Burke, have resigned from that committee. Subhan Shafiq, who vouched for Mr Kiani's character, also resigned from his role as Mayor of Milton Keynes. This week, I uncovered an audit report from January 2013 which rated the taxi licensing department as 'weak' and revealed 81 CRB checks were overdue. BBC Three Counties's Iain Lee spoke to former leader of the council, Andrew Geary, and former chairman of the audit committee, Rik Brackenbury, about the report...

Last night, Milton Keynes Council's health select committee voted through a motion saying it is 'improper' for former Mayor Subhan Shafiq to serve on the committee. Councillor Shafiq, who was forced to resign as Mayor of Milton Keynes after he was found to have vouched for a taxi driver (Nadeem Kiani) with four convictions for serious sexual assaults, was co-opted onto the committee last month. But committee chairman, Alice Bramall, tabled an urgent motion calling for that decision to be re-considered. It was passed by three votes to one. Councillor Isobel McCall voted against the motion and walked out of the meeting. I asked her why...

Milton Keynes Council has revoked the licence of a taxi driver who has been found to have four convictions for serious sexual assaults, including rape. Conservative Edith Bald spoke to Roberto Perrone...

Transcript -- Angela Abbott runs Bereavement Services for Milton Keynes Council including 10 cemeteries, one crematorium with 2 chapels, 3 cremators

Angela Abbott runs Bereavement Services for Milton Keynes Council including 10 cemeteries, one crematorium with 2 chapels, 3 cremators