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The government must put sustainability first in its plans for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and encourage local authorities and their development partners to bring communities along as part of the planning...
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13.01.2021Design | design codes | England | Housing | local planning | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning for the future | Planning reformThe government's white paper proposal to introduce design codes presents a challenge to England's planning system. But they can work if they meet a number of criteria, argues Jane Dann
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13.01.2021Are changes to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 truly an opportunity for developers, retailers and professional service providers in a post-Covid world? Philippa Plumtree-Varley...
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06.01.2021active travel | Business & Enterprise | Courier | England | Food delivery | Infrastructure - Transport | UKThe on-demand food delivery industry has put thousands of new vehicles onto the roads, adding to pollution and congestion. Planners need to factor he industry into their plans, argues Georgia Corr
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03.01.2021adaptation | carbon-friendly | Climate Change | Heritage | historic buildings | Regeneration | Reuse | Scotland | UK | VATAdapting and resusing existing buildings is a far more carbon-friendly than knocking them down and demolishing them, observes Adele Shaw. So why don't we reward developers for doing that, instead of...
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22.12.2020Brexit | England | Environment Bill | Environmental | Legal | Office of Environmental Protection | Planning Law | UKDelays to the government’s environment bill means the UK will be without its promised environmental legislation when the Brexit transition period ends, says Claire Petricca-Riding. This is...
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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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In the wake of the RTPI’s call for mandatory health impact assessments in development applications, Mark Cope asks whether it’s enough to assess health impacts of the project or is a strategic planning health focus also needed?
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