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26.06.2020active travel | Cycling infrastrcuture | England | Infrastructure - Transport | Policy & Politics | UKDifficulties with accessing funding and lack of local political expertise are holding us back from delivering more and better cycling infrastructure, says Andrew Brown
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26.06.2020Coronavirus | covid-19 | England | Housing | Housing delivery | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | stadnard methodIf the house building industry is to recover relatively quickly from a Covid-19 related slump in demand, then it will need to acknowledge how people’s priorities may have changed during the pandemic, says...
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25.06.2020Community Infrastructure Levy | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Isle of Dogs | London | Policy & Politics | robert jenrick | steve reedDocuments released by housing secretary Robert Jenrick regarding his decision to approve a 1,524-home scheme on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets show he ‘insisted’ a decision was made before it was ‘impacted by a change in the London CIL regime’.
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23.06.2020The government has published guidance outlining how local leaders of the 100 selected towns for the £3.6 billion Towns Fund should prepare a Town Deal.
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22.06.2020Community Engagement | Design | design guidance | design guide | Development Management & Enforcement | England | housing design | place designLocal design guides can add distinctive regional elements to national design guidance and ensure well-designed buildings and places – that reflect community aspirations – become the norm, says Jane Dann...
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22.06.2020Economic Growth | England | Housing | Planning Inspectorate | planning permission | Policy & Politics | robert jenrickHousing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that planning permission deadlines will be extended as the government puts in place measures to support the construction industry and ‘boost building’.
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22.06.2020Business & Enterprise | Climate Change | Coronavirus | Economic Growth | England | high streets | retail | UK | Use classesThe use class system should be deregulated and local authorities given the opportunity to develop an 'appropriate proposition' to attract people to live, work and play in towns, suggests a report.
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22.06.2020Coronavirus | council housing | England | Housing | lga | Local Government Association | social housingThe Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to be given the powers to build thousands of ‘desperately needed’ council homes to ‘spearhead’ the recovery from Covid-19.
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22.06.2020Climate Change | climate crisis | DEFRA | England | england tree strategy | Environmental | forests | trees | WoodlandThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting interested parties on how to ‘accelerate’ tree planting and improve the management of existing trees and woodlands – the results of which will inform an England Tree Strategy.
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19.06.2020battery storage | England | Greater Manchester | Infrastructure - Green | Kwasi Kwarteng | trafford | UKThe government has announced that the ‘world’s largest and first’ commercial liquid air battery facility is planned for Trafford, Greater Manchester.
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