community engagement

Appeal: Housing would ‘drive a coach and horses’ through NP process

27.08.2021

Matt Moody

Community Engagement | community engagement | Heritage | Housing | housing land supply | neighbourhood planning | South East

Plans for 35 homes on the edge of a Sussex village that were contrary to a just-adopted neighbourhood plan have been blocked by an inspector, who commented that allowing the appeal would ‘significantly...
Shed is ready? Go!

04.04.2019

Robin Hutchinson

community agriculture | Community Engagement | community engagement | England | SHEDx

Robin Hutchinson reflects on SHEDx' 2019 London Planning Award for Community Engagement
Creating an impression: An interview with John Acres

04.01.2018

Martin Read

Campaigning & Advocacy | community engagement | local planning | Planner-interview | Professional Development | RTPI President | UK

Incoming RTPI president John Acres aims to use his position to emphasise the positive and creative nature of the planning profession. Martin Read reports
Convention 2016: Scottish planning review positive about profession

03.08.2016

Laura Edgar

community engagement | placemaking | Policy & Politics | Scotland | scottish planning system | UK

Session title: Empowering planning in Scotland
Speaker: John McNairney, chief planner, Scottish Government
Mayor to publish planning guidance on music venues

21.10.2015

Laura Edgar

BLP | Boris Johnson | community engagement | London | planning | planning guidance | Social infrastructure

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is going to publish planning guidance on how planning policy could aid in the protection of the capital’s music venues.
How can we make design review work for all?

17.04.2015

David Tittle

community engagement | Design | design review | NPPF | UK

Involving communities in the process of reviewing designs early in the planning stages of bew developments can reduce antgonism and create better places for all, says MADE...
The accidental advocate

08.07.2014

Simon Tyrrell

Community Engagement | community engagement | Development Management & Enforcement | Legal | London | public inquiry | Seething Wells | South East

In the autumn of 2013, plans to build a marina and housing on the historic Thameside filter beds at Seething Wells in Surbiton went to inquiry. Simon Tyrrell (above), of The Friends of Seething Wells, acted...