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Case study: How Carmarthenshire protected rare butterflies while supporting economic growth

05.10.2018

Mark Smulian

AWARD: RTPI Award For Excellence in Planning for the Natural Environment

PROJECT NAME: Caeau Mynydd Mawr SPG and Marsh Fritillary Project

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Lifting of housing borrowing cap is warmly welcomed

03.10.2018

Martin Read

A very welcome decision and a victory for both bold thinking and common sense are some of the responses to the government’s decision to scrap the cap...

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Greater Manchester leaders order ministers to clarify housing need standard

03.10.2018

Huw Morris

Greater Manchester’s spatial framework faces fresh delays and further rewrites after latest government household projections disrupted the standard method for calculating housing need.

In a big county: An interview with Rosemarie Harris

02.10.2018

Simon Wicks

A pragmatic approach to local politics and service delivery are vital to meeting the challenges of...

Is spatial planning bad for our health?

11.09.2018

Hugh Barton

Research suggests that health outcomes are strongly linked to income inequality, and reinforced by quality of place. So, Hugh Barton asks, are the spatial planning decisions we make bad for our health?...

Appeal: Green belt infill home allowed following Court of Appeal ruling

10.09.2018

Matt Moody

court of appeal | Green Belt | infill development | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | West Midlands

An inspector has approved plans for a new home in the green belt near Solihull, following a 2015 court ruling that a ‘commonsense’ approach should be taken regarding the physical extent of...

Can we put a value on landscape – and the planning that enhances it?

10.09.2018

John Acres

We all know that the quality of the landscape around us – built or natural – contributes to our wellbeing, but it's hard to quantify in material terms. Planning must seize the...