County Councils Network
-
21.10.2020CCN | Community Engagement | County Councils Network | Duty to Cooperate | England | planning for the future | Policy & Politics | strategic planning
A new approach to strategic planning requires the designation of strategic planning advisory bodies (SPAB), the key roles for which would be prescribed nationally, suggests a report.
-
21.10.2020CCN | County Councils Network | Duty to Cooperate | England | planning for the future | Policy & Politics | strategic planning
Scrapping the duty to cooperate is one proposal in Planning for the Future that seems to have almost unanimous support, writes Catriona Riddell, but what are the options for...
-
28.08.2020
Proposals to reform England’s planning system point to a major reorganisation of local government to introduce more unitary authorities, according to a report.
-
04.08.2020Combined authorities | County Councils Network | Development Management & Enforcement | elected mayors | England | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | Policy & Politics | spatial planning
County councils should be given more powers to lead the recovery from Covid-19. The government’s forthcoming white paper on devolution should use county authorities as the ‘principle vehicle’ for further devolution deals to secure economic growth.
-
13.07.2020ARCO | County Councils Network | England | Health | housing for older people | Policy & Politics | retirement developments | Use classes
David Williams argues for the classification of retirement communities to deliver preventative-focused care in England
-
13.07.2020ARCO | County Councils Network | England | Health | Housing | housing for older people | retirement developments | use class order
A report has suggested that the introduction of a planning classification for retirement communities could incentivise the development of them and make it easier for councils to include them in local plans.
-
30.03.2020Barton WIllmore | Campaigning & Advocacy | civic voice | Climate Change | County Councils Network | England | epr | legal and general | Lichfields | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Planning reform | Planning White Paper | Policy & Politics | rapleys | strategic planning | TCPA
Putting people at the heart of placemaking, the reintroduction of strategic planning, speeding up the planning system, and measures to mitigate the climate crisis have all been cited as priorities for the forthcoming planning white paper. It should also provide maximum clarity as soon as...
-
05.03.2020
To level up the whole country, the government must give county authorities the tools to make a difference, says Peter French.
-
05.03.2020Building Better Building Beautiful Commission | county councils | County Councils Network | England | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | strategic planning
The government should consider how county authorities could take a 'more material role' in the strategic and spatial planning process, according to a report published today (5 March).
-
16.12.2019arcadis | carter jonas | Climate Change | County Councils Network | CPRE | Housing | National Housing Federation | Policy & Politics | RTPI | TCPA | UK
The built environment sector has urged the new government to fund local authorities properly and to be bolder in addressing the climate crisis.
Pages
TOP JOBS
TOP NEWS