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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.
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06.08.2020flats | Housing | Ireland | niall cussen | Office of the Planning Regulator | Policy & Politics | urban sprawlIreland’s planning system is failing to contain the sprawl of major urban areas, warns the Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR).
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06.08.2020air quality | clean air | Climate Change | Cymru | Environmental | lesley griffiths | Policy & Politics | Welsh GovernmentThe Welsh Government published its first clean air plan this week. The 93-page document Clean Air Plan for Wales: Healthy Air, Healthy Wales emphasises the role of place-making and the planning system.
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06.08.2020Community Engagement | England | Environmental | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning for the future | planning reforms | Policy & PoliticsMany of the proposals to reform the planning system have been welcomed by built environment professions, but they have highlighted concerns about scrapping section 106 agreements and the environmental impact assessment, and also local democracy.
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06.08.2020England | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning for the future | planning reforms | Policy & Politics | RTPIThe RTPI has welcomed the ‘sensible’ proposal to make the role of chief planner a statutory role in local authorities, but has warned that plans for a zonal system are ‘rather simplistic’.
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06.08.2020affordable housing | England | Housing | housing need calculation | planning for the future | planning reformsA ‘revised’ standard method for calculating housing need is at the heart of interim reforms to the planning system in England proposed by the government ahead of major changes outlined in the ...
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Laurieston is one of eight ‘transformational regeneration areas’ in Glasgow, receiving support from the city’s Transforming Communities Partnership. We take a closer look at an award-winning programme
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Glasgow’s first ‘City Urbanist’, Brian Evans FRTPI is charged with knitting together policy and practice to help create a city that works. He tells Matt Moody about the ‘existential challenges’ of one of the UK’s great cities
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High streets are taking a battering under Covid-19. Simon Wicks asked five experts how we can restore the heartbeat to the UK’s town centres and local economies
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