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How the government is using AI to speed up the planning system

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How the government is using AI to speed up the planning system
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Here's how the government is using AI to speed up the planning systemThese two new systems could be genuinely revolutionaryJames O'MalleyJun 17, 20262661SharePOD! On YIMBY Pod this week, Martin and I look at Zack Polanski’s claims about the price of food, and I make myself popular by defending, er, the Big Supermarket. Then we speak to the excellent Thomas Ableman about how the Swiss would have built HS2 completely differently.

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Here's how the government is using AI to speed up the planning systemThese two new systems could be genuinely revolutionaryJames O'MalleyJun 17, 20262661SharePOD! On YIMBY Pod this week, Martin and I look at Zack Polanski’s claims about the price of food, and I make myself popular by defending, er, the Big Supermarket. Then we speak to the excellent Thomas Ableman about how the Swiss would have built HS2 completely differently. Listen here, or wherever you get your pods!Building stuff in Britain is a nightmare.The arguments are well rehearsed by now.

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