new town

Garden city principles provide a better vision for housing

24.01.2020

Patrick Clarke

England | garden city | garden community | Housing | Masterplanning | new town | Plan Making - Master Planning | Plan Making - Spatial Planning

Garden city principles provide a blueprint for the large scale housebuilding required to solve the UK's housing shortage, argues Patrick Clarke.
Ireland round-up: Cork new town approved for take-off; Size matters – Dublin plan to allow taller apartment blocks

03.06.2016

Roger Milne

Cork | Dublin | Housing | Infrastructure | Ireland | new town

A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 28 May-3 June, 2016
Cork new town approved for take-off

03.06.2016

Roger Milne

Cork | Housing | Ireland | new town

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a new town of up to 5,300 homes on the outskirts of Cork city near Blarney.
News Analysis: What can we learn from new towns?

05.10.2015

Laura Edgar

England | garden city | Housing | Infrastructure | new town | Runcorn | stevenage | UK | Warrington | welwyn

Creating new towns is going to be a complex task and much will need to be considered during their planning. What can be learned from the 20th century new towns and what does their future hold?
Northstowe phase two plans submitted

22.08.2014

Marino Donati

Development Management & Enforcement | East of England | Housing | Infrastructure | new town | Northstowe | Regeneration | Social infrastructure

Outline plans for 3,500 homes at Northstowe in Cambridgeshire have been submitted.
What happened to the New Towns?

08.04.2014

Nathan Renison

Development Management & Enforcement | Halton | Housing | new town | North West | Runcorn | Social infrastructure

In 1974 the Canadian Film Board came to Runcorn to see the concrete and asphalt shoots of a New Town emerging from the green fields of North Cheshire.