News

Covid-19: Planning profession impact - rolling news

24.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Coronavirus | Health | Policy & Politics | RTPI | UK

The Planner is keeping track of the coronavirus (Covid-19) related policy changes and pledges as they arise. Below you can find links to our coverage and sources you might find useful.

Scotland round-up: More than 4 per cent of homes at risk of flooding; Fears that planning process is weighted for developers

08.01.2016

Roger Milne

Edinburgh | flooding | Housing | Infrastructure | Minerals and waste | National Parks | planning | Regeneration | RTPI | Scotland | Scottish Government | wind farm

A round-up of planning news in Scotland: 2 January-8 January, 2016
Wales round-up: Cardiff’s revised LDP makes the grade; Legislation on Welsh language in planning comes into force

08.01.2016

Roger Milne

Cardiff | Circuit of Wales | Cymru | George Osborne | Infrastructure | land use | local development plan | planing | RTPI | solar farm | Swansea | Welsh language | Wrexham

A round-up of planning news in Wales: 2 January-8 January, 2016
Appeals round-up: Clark approves 650 homes plus mixed-use floor space in south Norfolk; Council failure to meet housing need sees 180 homes approved

07.01.2016

Martha Harris

affordable housing | AONB | Business & Enterprise | DCLG | Development Management & Enforcement | Greg Clark | Housing | neighbourhood plan | UK | wind turbine

A round up of appeal decisions: 2-8 January, 2016.
RTPI to streamline routes to chartered membership

07.01.2016

Laura Edgar

Business & Enterprise | Janet Askew | RTPI | UK

The RTPI has announced that it is streamlining the ways that professional planners can achieve chartered membership.
Watchdog criticises housing body over land deals and planning conflicts in Northern Ireland

07.01.2016

Roger Milne

Housing | Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland Executive

A former senior member of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) was involved in ‘fundamental’ conflicts of interest over land deals, the NI Audit Office has highlighted in a report just published.

Pages

FEATURES

Case study: New life for The Newt

Hadspen House in Somerset and its estate have been transformed from a traditional private estate into a high-grade hotel, landscaped garden and sustainable tourist destination. Good planning – with plenty of newt-counting – was integral, as Matt Moody discovers
Twists of freight: Why the future might depend on rail freight

Fifty proposals have been submitted to Network Rail to reopen lines closed by DR Beeching – but if improving transport links is vital for people to access opportunities across the UK, we’re missing a trick by not investing in a strategic rail freight network, says Jack Osgerby
Picking up the pieces: The case for a federal UK

Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic have ruthlessly exposed deep regional inequalities that are pulling the UK apart. A federal system of government could heal the divisions, argues Malcolm Prowle

TOP JOBS