Planning reform
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13.01.2021Design | design codes | England | Housing | local planning | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning for the future | Planning reform
The government's white paper proposal to introduce design codes presents a challenge to England's planning system. But they can work if they meet a number of criteria, argues Jane Dann
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17.12.2020
Is there truly a case for blockchain technology within the planning process or could it be more hype than help? Unboxed’s Kassie Paschke and Rhian Lewis consider the pros...
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30.11.2020Campaigning & Advocacy | Demographics & Population Growth | England | Housing | Planning reform | Planning White Paper | Policy & Politics | Retirement community | senior housing
As England prepares to reform its planning system, policymakers and planners must finally find long-term answers to the challenge of providing age-friendly housing for older people, says Phil Bayliss ...
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17.11.2020Community Engagement | digital | England | Planing for the Future | Planning reform | Technology | white paper
The planning white paper makes much of the potential of digital engagement. But we mustn't abandon face-to-face consultation, says Silvia Lazzerini
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05.11.2020England | Housing | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning for the future | Planning reform | Policy & Politics | white paper
The planning white paper is laudable in its ambition to fix planning, says Ben Arrowsmith, but may need a little refinement in parts
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09.10.2020Community Engagement | England | Planing for the Future | Planning reform | Policy & Politics | public engagement
Public engagement underpins effective planning, say Dr Tessa Lynn, Dr Mark Dobson and Prof Gavin Parker FRTPI. Planning for the Future offers few clues as to how this will happen in a reformed...
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05.10.2020Campaigning & Advocacy | Community Infrastructure | England | Night-time economy | Planing for the Future | Planning reform | Policy & Politics | Sound diplomacy
The government's proposed planning reforms have a huge blind spot when it comes to cultural activities and the night-time economy, argue Shain Shapiro and Tara Tank
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05.10.2020active travel | England | Infrastructure - Transport | planning for the future | Planning reform | white paper
Transport is integral to the paradigm shift towards cleaner healthier places - but it's barely mentioned in the government's blueprint for planning reform, say Stephen Bennett and...
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28.09.2020England | housebuilding | planning for the future | Planning reform | planning system | Policy & Politics
Efforts to simplify the planning system to speed up housebuilding are almost certainly doomed to failure, says Griff Rhys Jones. Planning is complicated, whether you like it or not - and it'...
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13.08.2020
The use of design codes to shape development will require a change in approach – and mindset – from planners if they are to succeed, argues Ben Bolgar. Even then, reform could fail without the right...
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