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This podcast is for anyone trying to build, fund, design, approve, or understand development in the UK. Your host, Aaron Zimmerman MA MSc MRTPI, is having honest conversations with other leaders from across the built environment sector to Make Planning Make Sense. Follow for new episodes fortnightly on Thursdays! Make Planning Make Sense is presented by Centro Planning Consultancy and recorded in beautiful London, England. https://centroplan.co.uk/
Unknown Host hosts Make Planning Make Sense, a business show with 40 episodes published.
Our guests for this episode are Charlotte Morphet, Programme Leader for Urban Planning at the University of the Built Environment and Marina Milosev, co-founder of Beyond the Red Line and, recently, Urban Planning Expert
Our guest this week is Helen Walker, Head of Heritage and Associate at Bowman Riley. Helen lets us in on a pleasant little heritage hack that can spare folks a bit of time, expense, and grief. Along the way, we touch on
Live from the London Centre: Tarun Cheema MRTPI and Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI present the latest on planning reform...and how the devil is always in the details. We give a TLDR run-through of: The draft NPPF The Mayor’s kick
Our guest this week is Nathan Spencer, Managing Director of UKREiiF. REiiF Week is upon us, and in tingling anticipation of UKREiiF , which runs 19th to the 21st of May, Nathan talks about who’s lined up to anchor the ev
Our guest this week is Joanna Christophides, Director at Cratus Group. We’re just one week out from the local elections, and there’s been a lot of chatter about more seats going to candidates outside the traditional blue
Our guests this week are Founding Director Adam Green and Director of Partnerships Emily Wilson of Ninety Four Group. Adam and Emily share insights about a sector that’s just as much P2P as it is B2B. How do we grow our
Our guest this week is Marko Salopek, Senior Project Manager at Muse. Marko comes at the discussion from his particular perspective as part of a prestigious public-private partnership placemaking powerhouse, Muse. This c
Our guest this week is Uliana Kuzmis, Chief Credit Officer at Pallas Capital UK. Our conversation is a window into the world of development finance. Uliana sets out how development is actually financed – or not – includi
Our guest this week is Melissa Murphy KC of Landmark Chambers. Melissa talks us through the draft NPPF from fresh angles, puts the power of planning committees in perspective, and considers the limitations of the metapho
Our guest this week is James Mickelburgh, co-founder of Jensen Hunt. As town planning agents, part of our role is to make sense of a subjective and often open-ended policy context that’s always changing. The conversation
Our guest this week is Viktor Rohacs, Founder and Director of Rohacs Architects. As town planning agents, we know it’s as important to secure a successful permission as it is to secure a deliverable permission. Our conve
Our guest this week is the one-and-only Phineas Harper. The team at Centro is in the built environment sector because we’re dedicated to the outcomes we achieve. We’re invested in the nature of our work. That’s why it wa
Our guest this week is Reuben Taylor KC of Landmarks Chambers. Reuben is a brilliant planning barrister, and, as you’ll hear, our conversation covers a wide range of topics. From the kickstart measures for housing delive
The Season 2 premiere! Our guest this week is Councillor Anthony Okereke, leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The insightful conversation covers new towns, the emergency relief measures for Greater London, local go
Welcome to the Season 1 Finale! Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI sits down with Centro's Managing Director, Luke Raistrick MRTPI to distil the insights shared by our terrific guests over the course of Season 1. If you've been waiti
This is the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Make Planning Make Sense!!! Our guests this week are Professor Nancy Holman and Professor Alan Mace of the London School of Economics. It’s a terrific conversation that invi
Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI and Alex Roth sit down with Cleo Folkes of Thrive to discuss how we can measure and understand social value. In this episode, we talk through how similar the planning balance exercise is to a social
In our penultimate episode of 2025, Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI and Alex Roth sit down with Maurice Lange, Analyst at the Centre for Cities and co-author of a report we keep referencing on the show! In this episode, we talk th
Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI and Alex Roth sit down with Jamie Holmes, CEO of Vu.City. In this episode, we talk through the power of Vu.City as a communication tool. We also chat about what’s next for Vu.City, a bit of comparat
It's our first episode in front of a live studio audience! Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI and Hannah Irish, Associate at McGuireWoods, discuss the pratfalls and pitfalls of Section 106 legal agreements. We cover: 🔹 What Sec
Adam Green
Hatchet Creator & Director · The Progressive Change Campaign Committee
1 appearance on this show
Emily Wilson
scholar and translator of Homer and Seneca · University of Washington
1 appearance on this show
Phineas Harper
1 appearance on this show
Jamie Holmes
Author of The Free and the Dead · Vu.City
1 appearance on this show
Natalie Taylor
Keeper of the Soil · Acacia Management and Facilities
1 appearance on this show
Dr. James White
Christian apologist and debater · March and White Design - MAWD
1 appearance on this show
Peter Murray OBE
OBE · New London Architecture
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Chapman
Global Chief Sustainability Officer · Skinesis & Sarah Chapman London
1 appearance on this show
Melissa Murphy KC
Landmark Chambers
1 appearance on this show
James Mickelburgh
Jensen Hunt
1 appearance on this show
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