England

Report recommends ‘yellowfield registers’ to release land for housing

16.10.2017

Laura Edgar

England | Green Belt | Housing | housing land supply | national infrastructure commission

Allowing local authorities to redesignate green belt land by creating ‘yellowfield registers’ would enable the release of land for housing, a think tank has said.

Brexit will blight government infrastructure projects, claims study

16.10.2017

Laura Edgar

The results of a survey suggest that more than 80 per cent of construction workers think Brexit will prevent government infrastructure projects from being delivered.

England round-up: Government publishes strategy to combat climate change; Network Rail releases sites for housing

13.10.2017

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 7 October-13 October, 2017

Land use for the common good

12.10.2017

Kate Swade

We have a rich and often painful heritage of discussion and conflict on land ownership and use in the UK, from enclosures to clearances, and from Diggers to squatters. Kate Swade considers what the future...

Why we need to preserve Britain's great estates

12.10.2017

Christopher Price

The family estate accounts for the greater part of private land ownership in the UK – and some have been in the same families for close to a millennium. Christopher Price argues for the preservation of...

A brief history of land

12.10.2017

Francesca Perry

How have we arrived at our current patterns of land ownership and tenure in England and Wales? Francesca Perry offers a potted history’

Network Rail releases sites for housing

12.10.2017

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | London | Network Rail

Network Rail has launched the first of its planned series of new ‘multi-site land packages’ as well as a range of new measures to improve its work with developers.

Q&A: Two minutes with... Sir Terry Farrell

12.10.2017

Martin Read

Sir Terry Farrell was recently awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Gold Medal in recognition of his outstanding achievements as one of the world’s most influential architects, planners...

Government publishes strategy to combat climate change

12.10.2017

Laura Edgar

Energy secretary Greg Clark has published the government’s plans to cut carbon emissions to address climate change and drive economic growth.

Conservation areas – the good, the bad and the ugly

11.10.2017

Iain Rhind

conservation areas | England | Heritage | heritage | historic england

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of England's first conservation area. Many more have been designated since - but are conservation areas all they're cracked up to be? Iain Rhind argues for a nuanced view of...

Pages