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Use Classes Order and change of use
Posted on: 5 June 2013
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On 9 May 2013 the government published the proposed changes to the General Permitted Development Order 1995. It will significantly change the rules on change of use including allowing the direct change of use of office buildings B1(a) to residential use C3 without the need for planning permission. Other changes will affect high-street properties, town centre offices and agricultural buildings.
Planning Act 2008: Application form guidance
Posted on: 5 June 2013
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This guidance is to help those who intend to make an application for development consent under the Planning Act.
Streamlining the planning application process: consultation. Government response
Posted on: 5 June 2013
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The government’s response to the public consultation on measures to streamline the planning application process, including proposed changes to design and access statements, the validation stage and decision notices.
Governing metropolitan regions within a localist agenda: London, Paris and Berlin. Paris, 22 February 2013
Posted on: 5 June 2013
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This is the second seminar of the Regional Studies Association Research Network with the theme Institutional and policy issues: Articulating scales. With a focus on the Paris region, the seminar focused on institutional issue and governance at regional scale, and policies at metropolitan scales, including planning, transport, housing, urban renewal, and neighbourhood policies. A report of the event and presentations are available online.
The future of London’s town centres
Posted on: 4 June 2013
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This report from the London Assembly’s Planning Committee explores the future role of town centres in London and considers and comments on the Mayor’s draft supplementary planning guidance (SPG) on town centres, published in January 2013. It also makes additional recommendations to the Mayor on how he could further support and improve London’s town centres. The report says that town centres must change from being primarily shopping destinations to dynamic and mixed centres for communities offering a range of retail, leisure, public services and housing. A report of evidence received by the Committee is also available.
The relevance of street patterns and public space in urban areas
Posted on: 30 May 2013
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Well planned street systems in cities hold the key to better mobility, provision of urban basic services as well as economic productivity, according to UN-Habitat Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos. In this working paper he argues that urban planners must address well thought out streets when coming with urban plans.
Building urban rural partnerships in future European development programmes. Warsaw, 24-25 April 2013
Posted on: 29 May 2013
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This event provided an important opportunity for policymakers and stakeholders at European, national, regional and local level to better understand the practical aspects of urban rural partnerships and influence their implementation in future EU Cohesion Policy and Rural Development policy. Video and audio presentations are available online.
PlanningCon13. Belfast, 25-26 April 2013
Posted on: 29 May 2013
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The 35th Annual Conference of the Irish Planning Institute aims to facilitate discussion around the changing role of planning, particularly having regard to local government reform in the Republic of Ireland and planning reform in Northern Ireland. Presentations are available online.
REAL CORP 2013. Rome, Italy, 20-23 May 2013
Posted on: 29 May 2013
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REAL CORP conferences have been held annually since 1996. About 500 experts from around the world from the fields of urban planning, transport planning, information and communication technologies, architecture, social and environmental sciences, real estate, GIS, surveying, remote sensing and more meet to discuss current tasks and topics on urban planning, regional development and information society in an international and extremely interdisciplinary conference. The 2013 conference explored the relationship between time and space, and how the planning practise and theory relates itself to this complex synergy. Time and space work on different scales, dimensions and topics, and confront us with questions such as: How to plan taking into account time, both past history and future development? How to integrate monitoring within the planning decision processes, such as in the case of natural disasters? How to handle time that cannot be planned, such as long decision processes or real time decisions? A large number of papers are available online under the following themes: adapting cities for future challenges; fragile cities; smart cities; memory and imagination; monitoring to plan; governing green networks across borders; improving energy in urban areas; public participation; abandoned churches; cities for all; improving daily resilience of our cities; density and public space; data and planning; social housing; the role of real estate towards a sustainable future of cities; and climate change assessment.
Government response to the external review of government planning practice guidance consultation and report
Posted on: 23 May 2013
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On 21 December 2012 the Government welcomed the report of the External Review of Government Planning Practice Guidance led by Lord Taylor of Goss Moor, and announced a short consultation on the Review Group’s recommendations. The consultation closed on 15 February 2013. This document sets out the Government’s response and next steps towards implementation.
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