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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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01.03.2021England | Garden communities | Housing | new settlements | new towns | Policy & Politics | TCPA | zero carbon
A programme with the ambition of the post-war new towns era is needed if the government is to meet both its bid to address the climate crisis and to deliver the affordable homes the country needs.
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01.03.2021Climate Change | DEFRA | England | Environment Agency | Environmental | flooding | Housing | local authority resources | Policy & Politics | public accounts committee
‘Scarce’ local authority resources coupled with ‘low levels’ of private sector investment are preventing the effective management of flooding, especially given the Covid-19 pandemic.
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01.03.2021
Strategic city regional planning should be set out in the forthcoming planning bill to ensure that the green belt can fulfil its function while at the same time allowing for the delivery of new homes.
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26.02.2021AONB | Business & Enterprise | commencement | community facility | Community Infrastructure | Design | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | Masterplanning | ministerial statement | nitrate neutrality | Plan Making - Master Planning | Planning Law | Regeneration | Rural | UK
A round-up of planning appeals: 20 Februrary-26 February, 2021
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26.02.2021cycle lanes | extension | Green Belt | Ireland | Judicial review | nuclear | Planning Law | UK | wind farm
A round-up of legal news: 20 February-26 February, 2021
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Who are the women working in and around planning who have had an impact over the past year - a year of Covid-19, of planning reform, of growing awareness of the relationship between health, inequality and the built environment, of increaing urgency about the need to deal with the climate crisis? Here's our Women of Influence for 2021
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Black Lives Matter and the Covid-19 pandemic have raised awareness of the damage that inequality does to society. Planning must take note, Helen Fadipe tells Simon Wicks
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At the start of 2020, Tower Hamlets’ infrastructure planning team was shortlisted for an RTPI award, but by the time it was announced as the winner, the Covid-19 pandemic had changed the world. Matt Moody asks manager Matthew Pullen about how the team has adapted
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