young people

Survey: Young people not asked for views on their neighbourhood

20.10.2020

Laura Edgar

Community Engagement | consultation | Technology | UK | young people

Research published today (20 October) shows that 89 per cent of young adults aged 16-18 have not been asked for their opinions about their neighbourhood.

Appeal: Community building 'different but no less valuable' than skate park

21.08.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved alterations to a major regeneration scheme in Welwyn Garden City that will see a mixed-use community building provided instead of a skate park, despite council objections that...

News report: Is UK planning leaving children behind?

28.11.2019

Jack Osgerby and Simon Wicks

A newly published RTPI report finds that the UK’s planning systems make little accommodation for children and young people. Jack Osgerby and Simon Wicks report

Case study: Designing a new community with young people in Kingston

14.10.2019

Matt Bell

Young people have plenty to offer planners and developers when considering new regeneration and development plans, says Kingston Council

London's private rented sector makes up a quarter of the capital's households – but it's in desperate need of reform, says Jo Wilson

Younger generations now more unlikely to climb the property ladder

01.07.2019

Lydia Till

Young people today are ‘half as likely’ to own a home as they were 20 years ago, while existing homeowners are finding it harder to move, according to a report by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Planning polices are required to meet housing needs of old and young, say Lords

29.04.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Housing | housing for older people | RTPI | young people

The House of Lords Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provisions maintains that local authorities need to adopt specific planning policies to meet the housing needs of younger and older people.

Widening participation in the regeneration game

07.02.2019

Judi Greenwood

How do we interest young people in careers in planning and property? One Manchester-based initiative is breaking new ground, says Judi Greenwood

Our cities are failing children – let’s change the way we plan

17.08.2018

Olafiyin Taiwo

If we're to create towns and cities that are attuned to children's needs, then we will have to change our approach to urban planning, argues Olafiyin Taiwo

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Millennials face a lifetime of renting, claims report

18.04.2018

Laura Edgar

The private rented sector needs to be ‘radically reformed’ to ensure that it can accommodate families raising children and people who are retired because young people face never owning their own home, according to the Resolution Foundation.

Appeal: Takeaway refused in Manchester school zone

11.10.2017

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for a takeaway near a Manchester primary school, because it fell foul of a public health policy in the council's supplementary planning document on...

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