In this episode, RTPI London's Lubaina Mirza is joined by Levent Kerimol (Project Director, Community Led Housing London) and Oliver Bullied (Executive Director, London Community Land Trust) to discuss the value of community led-housing development and the challenges and opportunities facing community groups who are trying to secure and build fairly priced, sustainable homes in the capital.
Further information about Community Led Housing London and London Community Land Trust can be found on their websites:
https://www.communityledhousing.london/
https://www.londonclt.org/
Produced by Lubaina Mirza and Nicole Norman, and edited by David Maguire.
Title Music: 'All The Hurts We Made'. Moby. Courtesy of mobygratis.com.
The RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) London podcast ‘London Calling’ is back for 2022. It’s a podcast focused on planning and built environment issues in the capital.
To kick start our new series, host Charlotte Morphet is joined by the policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, Chris Hayward, and by planning barrister and City councillor, Martha Grekos. They candidly discuss how the pandemic has changed the City of London over the last couple of years and talk through new strategies which the Corporation hope will ‘reinvent’ and re-energise the Square Mile in the near future as part of the 'Destination City' initiative.
Produced and edited by David Maguire.
Title Music: 'All The Hurts We Made'. Moby. Courtesy of mobygratis.com.
Toyin Omodara, Kreena Patel and Hong Chen of the BAME Planners Network discuss their careers and their hopes for the future of planning in conversation with RTPI London's Tom Venables.
Toyin Omodara is a Principal Planning Officer at the GLA. Kreena Patel is a Senior Planning Officer with Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. Hong Chen is an Associate Planner at LUC.
The BAME Planners Network aim to provide a friendly platform for engagement, support and capacity building for BAME Planning Professionals.
Title Music: All The Hurts We Made. Moby. Courtesy of mobygratis.com.
RTPI London's Katie Lidington chats to Angus Walker, Infrastructure Planning Partner at law firm BDB Pitmans, about his experience of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted planning for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. This conversation was recorded on 10 September 2020.
This podcast explores the challenges facing planners working in the capital, what skill sets professionals need, the role of planners in public, private and third sectors, and how we can recruit a new generation of planners that reflect London’s diversity to a profession that remains relevant, creative and open to change.
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