wellbeing
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01.03.2021
The Quality of Life Foundation has launched a framework that seeks to address the changes that the development industry can make to make sure that homes are ‘acquired, planned, constructed and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone’.
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10.02.2021
Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed health inequalities relating to place. Planners have the tools to address these, argues Michael Chang
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02.02.2021
Planners are aware of the potential of planning to deliver better public health outcomes, Simon Wicks reports – but sceptical about whether the political will exists to enable this
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02.02.2021
It's been a stressful year for everyone - including planners, as our annual Careers Survey revealed
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15.12.2020England | planning manifesto | Policy & Politics | Professional Development | Steve Quartermain | TCPA | wellbeing
Soon after becoming England’s chief planner, Steve Quartermain attended the launch of a land use report produced by the Government Office for Science. One thing that people want from the planning system, it was agreed, was to be happy.
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25.11.2020
Record Breakers was a fabulous TV programme when I was growing up, writes Louise Brooke-Smith. The sheer infectious energy that Roy Castle brought to millions of viewers from the early 1970s...
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16.11.202020-minute neighbourhoods | Health | placemaking | Policy & Politics | RTPI Scotland | Scotland | scottish planner live | wellbeing
Laura Edgar and Matt Moody report from the Scottish Planner Live, which considered how to embed place and health in development plan policy.
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10.11.2020Community Infrastructure | North East | office to residential | permitted development | Policy & Politics | wellbeing
Can the permitted development right to convert offices into housing create functioning communities? Here’s what RTPI student research award-winner Jacob George found when he surveyed the...
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26.10.2020
The coronavirus epidemic gives us pause for thought, says Elad Eisenstien - and an opportunity to completely rethink how we design our living environments
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26.10.2020
Many of us are sometimes asked to support or mentor someone. It could be a student deciding on a particular direction or sector to follow, or a graduate hoping to land their first real job.
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