Infrastructure - Green

Johnson outlines plans to change the use classes order

30.06.2020

Laura Edgar

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out new regulations that will see buildings and land changing use without planning permission, with a policy paper due in July outlining how ‘England’s seven-decade-old planning system will be reformed for modern society’.

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Planner Live Online: Local control over transport spending will accelerate a green recovery

30.06.2020

Simon Wicks

Local authorities should not have to be competing for small pots of ring-fenced money within a fragmented transport funding landscape.

The Planner – read our July 2020 edition

30.06.2020

The Planner

Housing | Infrastructure - Green | Infrastructure - Transport | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | UK

The July 2020 copy of The Planner is now available as a digital edition to all RTPI members and magazine subscribers. Features this month include two winning RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence projects and the latest in our series on how Covid-19 could change the...

How will coronavirus change transport planning?

26.06.2020

Simon Wicks

The Covid-19 crisis is prompting councils to ‘reallocate’ road space to encourage active travel and enable pedestrians to get around safely. Measures are temporary but, asks Simon Wicks, does this herald a...

Why ‘lockdown’ needs to change the way we view and value green space

23.06.2020

John Haxworth

Coronavirus and the resulting lockdown has exposed some weaknesses in the way our communities and neighbourhoods have been planned. One of them is access to green space. John Haxworth says...

Liquid air battery project to be developed in Trafford

19.06.2020

Laura Edgar

The government has announced that the ‘world’s largest and first’ commercial liquid air battery facility is planned for Trafford, Greater Manchester.

UK’s largest solar park granted consent despite major opposition

29.05.2020

Huw Morris

Controversial plans for the UK’s biggest solar park have been approved after the government rejected protests about its effect on the Kent countryside.

Two in three back renewable energy and infrastructure investment

29.05.2020

Huw Morris

Climate Change | Environmental | Infrastructure - Energy | Infrastructure - Green | UK

Almost two thirds of the public support government-backed investment in renewable energy and infrastructure, according to a survey.

Covid-19: New railways and roads needed to help Northern Powerhouse recover

19.05.2020

Laura Edgar

Funding major transport and connectivity infrastructure improvements across the north of England can help the region – and the UK – to recover from coronavirus (Covid-19) and level up the country.

Changes to Welsh green regulator’s remit announced

15.05.2020

Roger Milne

The Welsh Government has set Natural Resources Wales (NRW) a number of new and repurposed priorities to target renewable energy, flood alleviation, tree planting and biodiversity.

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