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Appeals round-up: Private osteopath clinic is a community facility; 'Dual use' cabin with zip wire platform harmful to AONB

29.11.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 23 November-29 November, 2019

Legal briefs: Question mark over Greenwich noise nuisance restriction; Royal council withdraws injunction over cycle café in Hurley

29.11.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 23 November-29 November, 2019

RTPI: Planners ‘crucial’ to building council homes

28.11.2019

Laura Edgar

Planners’ skills such as plan-making and facilitating public engagement have a key role to play as local authorities look to build more housing.

News report: Is UK planning leaving children behind?

28.11.2019

Jack Osgerby and Simon Wicks

A newly published RTPI report finds that the UK’s planning systems make little accommodation for children and young people. Jack Osgerby and Simon Wicks report

General election 2019: SNP puts the case for renewable energy and green transport in election manifesto

28.11.2019

Laura Edgar

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is committed to bringing to the market a £3 billion portfolio of projects, including renewables, waste and construction; planting 60 million trees; and reducing emissions from Scotland’s railways to zero by 2035.

October sees rise in values of construction contracts awarded

27.11.2019

Laura Edgar

Barbour ABI | construction | Infrastructure - Transport | UK

Construction contract values awarded totalled £4.9 billion in October 2019, based on a three-month rolling average – an increase of 4.1 per cent on September 2019.

News in brief: Court fines Colden man for planning breach; Land with planning sold in Lincolnshire

26.11.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 26 November, 2019

CIHT panel chair puts case for wider appreciation of transport planning

26.11.2019

Laura Edgar

The audience at a recent RTPI and Transport Planning Society (TPS) event has heard how transport planning should be seen as the solution to issues as varied as air pollution, the climate crisis and obesity.

General election 2019: Plaid Cymru promises a Welsh green jobs revolution and a planning framework that prioritises sustainable development

25.11.2019

Laura Edgar

Plaid Cymru’s manifesto for the forthcoming general election (12 December) commits the party to creating an overarching strategic framework for planning that prioritises sustainable development and establishing a Welsh green jobs revolution by investing in renewable energy, transport...

General election 2019: Tories outline support for home ownership and billions of pounds in funding for infrastructure

25.11.2019

Laura Edgar

The Conservative Party has announced that it would make the planning system ‘simpler for the public and small builders’, support modern methods of construction, and reach net-zero emissions by 2050 if it wins the forthcoming general election (12 December).

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