Make Planning Make Sense
Make Planning Make Sense
Podcast Description
Join Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI and Alex Roth as they Make Planning Make Sense.
Explore how town planning works in the UK, why it doesn’t work well, why that matters, and what needs to change for planning to actually make sense. We’ll be having honest conversations with leaders from across the planning and development ecosystem.
This podcast is for anyone trying to build, fund, design, approve, or understand development in the UK. Follow us wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.
Make Planning Make Sense is presented by Centro Planning Consultancy. https://centroplan.co.uk/
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Content Themes
The podcast explores key themes in urban planning, including the effectiveness of current planning systems, the challenges faced in development processes, and recommendations for improvement. Episode examples include discussions about specific towns that have undergone planning and the systemic issues affecting urban development.

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/
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 conversation was a lot of fun, but it also makes a compelling a compelling argument for imperfection and grace.
It’s been remarkable that so many conversations within the built environment sector carry themes of anxiety, perfectionism, overwhelm, and the fear of guilt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the negative themes live in those gaps between how the system was designed and how it’s come to operate.
And what I’ve really appreciated is how our conversation with Marko and other guests on the podcast identify practical opportunities to fix and fill those gaps.
Be sure to follow for new episodes every other week. Make Planning Make Sense is hosted by Aaron Zimmerman MRTPI, presented by Centro Planning Consultancy and recorded in beautiful London, England.

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