In this episode recorded live at UKREiiF, Simon Gartshore, Deputy Managing Director at Kanda Consulting, sits down with Tom Sleigh, recently reelected as Chair of the City of London Corporation's Planning and Transportation Committee.

Tom reflects on his first year — including a record breaking number of applications — and shares his views on the pace of national planning reform, the near-final stages of the City Plan, and the challenge of balancing growth with heritage in the Square Mile.

The conversation also covers stalled development sites, the role of culture in Destination City, the arrival of AI in planning practice, and what a reduced planning committee will mean for decision-making in one of the world's most important business districts.

• Labour losing overall control of Cambridge City Council
• The Green Party’s breakthrough gains in Cambridge
• The Liberal Democrats’ near-clean sweep in South Cambridgeshire
• Huntingdonshire’s next rainbow coalition
• The future structure of local government across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Whether the levy can operate as a genuine growth tool
• The importance of governance, transparency and ringfencing
• The impact on competitiveness and the visitor economy
• Lessons from international examples
• The role of BIDs in shaping and delivering place-based funding