England

Renewable wind energy / Shutterstock 155706680

26.11.2018

Laura Edgar

England | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Transport | midlands engine | Northern powerhouse

The government has published its 2018 National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline, which is projected to be worth £600 billion over the next 10 years.

Affordable housing numbers on the rise - stats

26.11.2018

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | England | Housing | mhclg

New government figures reveal a 12 per cent increase in the number of affordable houses in England from 2016/17 to 2017/18.

TCPA to campaign against permitted development

26.11.2018

Laura Edgar

The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has launched a campaign for better basic national housing standards, labelling permitted development as one of the ‘biggest mistakes’ in postwar history.

England round-up: Malthouse keen to empower planning profession; London boroughs urged to update SCIs

23.11.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 17 November-23 November, 2018

3 point plan: Josephine Ellis

22.11.2018

Josephine Ellis

England | Planning reform | Policy & Politics | Professional Development

Josephine Ellis explains how she would change the English planning system.

Malthouse keen to empower planning profession

22.11.2018

Laura Edgar

The housing and planning minister has told planners he is ‘keen’ to empower the profession.

Catthorpe Interchange / Highways England

NPPF should include guidance on transport interchanges

19.11.2018

Laura Edgar

Campaign for Better Transport | England | Infrastructure - Transport | transport planning

The government has been urged to ensure that better integrated public transport is a defined planning policy objective.

Planning in England lacks accountability

19.11.2018

Laura Edgar

‘Clear accountability is perceived to be missing’ from the English planning system and consultation is often considered ‘tokenistic’. Democratic safeguards for the strategic planning process should be introduced to address this.

Creating place through an effective planning system / Shutterstock

Exclusive: Planning 2020 with Nick Raynsford

19.11.2018

Nick Raynsford

In the summer of 2017, former Labour planning minister Nick Raynsford began a review of the English planning system. Launched in the House of Lords on 20 November, here Raynsford reflects on a period of...

Sustaining rural estates – maintaining aristocracy or planning for the greater good?

16.11.2018

Scott O’Dell

In our zest for maintaining countryside and rural heritage, we may be inadvertently holding back the rural economy, says Scott O'Dell

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