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Help us celebrate 60 years of the RTPI’s Royal Charter

13.08.2019

Martin Read

International | Professional Development | RTPI | UK

This year is a particularly special one for the RTPI, which next month will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the granting of its Royal Charter. And you can help The Planner to mark the occasion.

Housing Delivery Test action plan approved in Welwyn Hatfield

12.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | housing delivery test | Policy & Politics | Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has approved the action plan required after failing to deliver at least 95 per cent of the housing it needs under the Housing Delivery Test.
Better land management can lessen climate change effects

12.08.2019

Laura Edgar

Climate Change | deforestation | International | IPCC | land use | Policy & Politics | RTPI | soil | UK

Improving how land is managed can contribute to tackling climate change alongside work to cut greenhouse gas emissions, shows the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
New guide offers tips to improve sports provision

12.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Health | healthy places | Policy & Politics | sport | sport england

Planning guidance that aims to make it simpler and easier for local authorities to provide facilities that enable people to get active has been published.
Appeals round-up: Time limit extended for 1,850-home Edinburgh Marina project; Green roof justifies glazed AONB home

09.08.2019

Matt Moody

AONB | care home | conservation area | Design | Development Management & Enforcement | enforcement | Green Belt | Housing | Leisure & Tourism | listed building | mayor of London | Plan Making - Master Planning | Planning Law | Regeneration | Rural | UK

A round-up of planning appeals: 3 August-9 August, 2019
Legal briefs: Police investigate Scarborough regeneration ’leak’; Edinburgh concert hall faces the music

09.08.2019

Roger Milne

Finance & Viability | high court | Housing | Judicial review | Leisure & Tourism | Planning Law | Regeneration | rogue landlord | UK

A round-up of legal news: 3 August-9 August, 2019

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Planning Convention 2019: What does the future hold?

Titled 'The future of planning: What's next?', this year's Planning Convention asked big questions about the direction in which the profession is headed and the role it can play in shaping our collective futures. The Planner's editorial team took note
Convention 2019: Homing instinct

Discussion of the housing crisis – and what planners can do to fix it – again permeated the annual convention. The Planner sat in on panels focusing on specialist housing and the role of local authorities, as well as an address from the housing minister, writes Matt Moody
Convention 2019: Time to take back the streets

”What we do with our cities will either make or break our species,” suggested New York architect Vishaan Chakrabarti in considering how to create future successful cities. Martin Read reports

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