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High street regeneration - a puzzle to be solved

05.12.2018

What's gone wrong with high streets? The diagnosis is complex and the cure requires genuine place leadership, says Prof, Cathy Parker

England round-up: Homes England to go where the market won’t; Mineral sales down in Q3

01.11.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 27 October-2 November 2018

England round-up: England falling behind Scotland in improving air quality, says RTPI; Bidding opens for garden community development support

17.08.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 11 August-17 August, 2018

Appeal: Recessed doorway not intrinsic to conservation area

31.07.2018

Matt Moody

active frontage | conservation area | Heritage | high street | London

An inspector has approved plans to replace a traditional shop frontage in Richmond, Surrey, ruling that its recessed doorway is not intrinsic to the visual quality of the surrounding conservation area....

Appeal: Social effects of gambling are ‘a government matter’, rules inspector

11.05.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved an ‘adult gaming centre’ in Willesden Green despite strong local opposition, stating that it is ‘a matter for national government’ to address the generalised...

Appeal: Bingo hall preferred to ongoing vacancy

16.03.2017

Plans to open an electronic bingo centre in a prime shopping location in Walsall town centre have been approved after an inspector judged the development preferable to the building remaining unoccupied....

Report suggests new strategy to boost high streets

18.01.2016

Laura Edgar

The lack of a strategy for bringing together, under single asset management, the “fragmented ownership” of properties in town centres is one of the causes of their “failure and underperformance”, concludes a new report backed by the British Property Federation.

Northern Ireland round-up: Second mega pig farm mooted; Planning appeal over travellers’ site

23.07.2015

Roger Milne

high street | Infrastructure | Northern Ireland | planning

A round-up of planning news in Northern Ireland: 18 July-24 July, 2014

Betting shop planning power given to councils

30.04.2014

Helen Bird

Local authorities are to be given more control over the number of betting shops appearing on the high street under new plans.

High streets show "greater resilience"

04.04.2014

Huw Morris

Only one in five high street sites hit by the biggest retail collapses in the past five years is still empty.