Opinion

Communities are the key to planning without conflict

11.07.2019

Collaboration, not confrontation, is the key to raising the quality of housing and earning the support of communities, says Sarah James.

Garden cities - wake up and smell the roses

29.04.2014

Ian Green

England | garden city | Green Belt | Housing | Infrastructure | Legal | local planning

After the “will they, won’t they” of recent months, the government has finally pledged support for the garden city idea - or rather, it has committed to pump-priming the infrastructure needed to get the...
Protecting locally valued assets

29.04.2014

Saskia Molecamp

ACV | assets of community value | Community Engagement | Heritage | Legal | local assets | Social infrastructure | UK

As a measure to give local communities greater control over the protection of valued local facilities and other sites, the Localism Act 2011 provides community groups with the opportunity to nominate a local...
The floods call for a planning revolution

15.04.2014

Trudi Elliott

Climate Change | floods | Housing | Infrastructure | planning | UK | Water & Marine

The recent floods have provoked a torrent of analysis and blame and, as ever, planning is in the frame – including calls for a “planning revolution”.
What happened to the New Towns?

08.04.2014

Nathan Renison

Development Management & Enforcement | Halton | Housing | new town | North West | Runcorn | Social infrastructure

In 1974 the Canadian Film Board came to Runcorn to see the concrete and asphalt shoots of a New Town emerging from the green fields of North Cheshire.
Blog: CPD won't be as challenging now Summer School is lost

01.04.2014

Leonora Rozee

Community Engagement | continuing professional development | CPD | Development Management & Enforcement | Education | Infrastructure | Local plans | Summer School | Training | UK

After 80 years the Town and Country Planning Summer School charity (TCPSS) has been forced to close as it is no longer possible to deliver the charitable objective of running an annual school following a...

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