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Are new settlements a nationally significant solution to the housing crisis?

19.07.2018

England | Garden communities | Housing | nationally significant infrastrcture projects | NSIPs

For the June 2018 issue, The Planner spoke to the sector about whether or not garden communities could be delivered through the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) regime. Here, Ben Lewis...

Cabinet approves third runway plan for Heathrow

05.06.2018

Laura Edgar

The government’s economic subcommittee has backed plans for a third runway at London Heathrow Airport. Plans were then approved by Prime Minister Theresa May’s full cabinet.

England round-up: Energy NSIP project submitted in Yorkshire; Government sees new settlements as part of housing crisis solution

01.06.2018

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 26 May – 1 June, 2018

Wales round-up: AMs demand tree cover drive to curb climate change; Energy NSIP submitted for Felindre

01.06.2018

Roger Milne

A round-up of planning news in Wales: 26 May-1 June, 2018

Government sees new settlements as part of housing crisis solution

30.05.2018

Laura Edgar

Although supply isn’t a straight forward question, the government sees an ‘increasing role’ for new settlements to help bridge the gap in solving the nation’s housing shortage, the audience at a recent conference heard.

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Report: Too much detail in NSIP preparation a ‘significant concern’

07.06.2017

Laura Edgar

Too much detail during the preparation, examination and specification stages of a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) was a ‘significant concern’.

3 point plan: Charlotte Brown

24.05.2017

Charlotte Brown

A planner explains how she would change the English planning system

Planning for nationally significant housing projects

08.09.2015

Marcus Bate and Robbie Owen

The housing crisis will continue to grow for as long as exclusively local approaches to planning fail to meet the needs of our growing nation. We need to think bigger, say Marcus Bate and Robbie Owen of...

10 infrastructure challenges for the new government

31.07.2015

David Blackman

The World Economic Forum ranks the UK only 27th worldwide for infrastructure provision. There’s little doubt we have a problem, but what’s to be done about it? David Blackman outlines 10 infrastructure...