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Turning houses into gold: the failure of British planning
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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Britain’s crisis of housing affordability is nothing to do with foreign speculators, according to Professor Paul Cheshire. The author, from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, suggests that it is a result of decades of misguided planning policies that constrain the supply of land. He adds that houses have been converted from places in which to live into people’s most important financial asset. Professor Cheshire also considers the social and environmental benefits of greenbelts.
Architects regulation and the Architects Registration Board: call for evidence
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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This document provides background information to support the online call for evidence questionnaire on architects regulation and the Architects Registration Board.
Tackling poverty through public procurement
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A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation claims that placing a requirement on contractors to undertake targeted recruitment and training would generate many additional job-with-training opportunities for people entering the labour market. It argues that by linking this to existing apprenticeship, training and job-search provisions, it could be done at little extra cost.
Neighbourhood Planning Hub
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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The Neighbourhood Planning Hub is an online space where people developing a Neighbourhood Plan and engaging in neighbourhood planning can network together, share ideas and gain peer to peer support.
Shedding light: a survey of local authority approaches to lighting in England
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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The Campaign to Protect Rural England has published a report which is described as the first research to survey councils specifically on how they control light pollution. As a result of the research CPRE is calling for councils to do more to control lighting in their areas. The report makes nine recommendations including: preserving dark skies by having a presumption against new lighting in existing dark areas; allocating lighting zones to help determine where streetlights should and should not go; and preventing inappropriate and badly designed lighting of development that masks views of the night sky.
Urban renewal after the Berlin Wall
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Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban decline and induce renewal. The authors of this report use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effects of 22 renewal areas implemented in Berlin, Germany, to increase housing and living quality in the aftermath of the city’s division during the Cold War period.
Gone with the wind: Valuing the visual impacts of wind turbines through house prices
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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This report, from the LSE’s Spatial Economics Research Centre, provides quantitative evidence on the local benefits and costs of wind farm developments in England and Wales, focusing on their visual environmental impacts. In the tradition of studies in environmental, public and urban economics, housing costs are used to reveal local preferences for views of wind farm developments.
Failure to transform: High-speed rail and the regeneration myth
Posted on: 28 April 2014
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New research, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, outlines the flaws in the government’s latest favoured justification for HS2, namely its regenerative effects on the economy and employment in the north. The author of the report studied the relationship between high speed rail and economic performance, using the UK’s only example of a high-speed domestic rail service from London to Kent.
Urban China: Toward efficient, inclusive and sustainable urbanization
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This joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council argues that China needs to build cities that are more dense to cut down on infrastructure costs. The report includes six priority areas for a new model of urbanization.
The State of the Union Road Transport Market
Posted on: 25 April 2014
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This report from the European Commission to the European Parliament and the Council brings together evidence from several studies, and it uses road freight transport statistics collected by Eurostat, as well as information on the enforcement of the social rules in road freight transport collected from Member States. It also draws on the Report of the High Level Group on the Development of the EU Road Haulage Market of 19 June 2012. It also takes into account the results of the extensive stakeholder consultation which took place before and after the drafting of the High Level Group report. Finally, it follows the identification by the Commission of the need for a revision of Regulations (EC) No 1071/2009 and (EC) No 1072/2009 under the REFIT exercise.
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