resilience

Appeal: Controversial green belt golf scheme can be enlarged

28.08.2020

Matt Moody

Community Engagement | fallback | golf | Green Belt | London | nature reserve | resilience | Sports & Recreation

A £15 million redevelopment of a green belt golf course in Hounslow that was controversially allowed at appeal in 2017 can be enlarged further, after an inspector ruled that the community benefits of the...
Councils must climate-proof plans

02.10.2019

Sam Hunter Jones

ClientEarth | Climate Change | climate change adaptation | Committee on Climate Change | England | Environmental | Legal | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | resilience

Environmental law charity ClientEarth has written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to set robust local carbon targets. Sam Hunter Jones outlines the rationale behind this move
New approach needed to make homes flood-resilient

08.05.2018

Laura Edgar

flood prevention | flooding | Housing | resilience | RIBA | UK

The UK’s approach to managing flood risk can no longer be based on ‘keeping the water out’, but should ensure that new homes and buildings are flood resilient.
RTPI blog round-up: Increasing collective knowhow for planning will transform cities

15.12.2017

Laura Edgar

Community Engagement | Infrastructure - Transport | resilience | RTPI | Transport | UK

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 11 November-15 December, 2017
Young planners look to the future

30.11.2014

South West Young Planners

Climate Change | Housing | Housing | Infrastructure | Infrastructure | planning systems | resilience | South West | South West Young Planners | UK

2014's RTPI Young Planners' Conference featured discussions of some of the biggest issues in contemporary planning. Four of the South West Young Planners...