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Posted on: 12 March 2013
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This website has been set up by a group of professional bodies, trade associations and charities with an interest in planning for housing. The Group came together in 2011 in response to a call from practitioners for practical support in assessing how many homes were needed in their areas in the context of the new housing and planning landscape. A Companion Guide has been written which provides some context to assessing the housing needed in local areas. This should help when looking at the toolkits. The Companion Guide also provides information on the process for looking at ‘housing need’.
Urban planning for city leaders
Posted on: 12 March 2013
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Urban {Planning for City Leaders is a UN-Habitat initiative to provide local leaders and decision makers with the tools to support urban planning good practice. It aims to inform leaders about the value that urban planning could bring to their cities and to facilitate a collaborative dialogue between leaders, policy makers and planners about urban development. This guide offers practical advice in this respect.
Planning reform proposals
Posted on: 11 March 2013
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This paper from the House of Commons Library highlights the key proposals for planning reform.
Health and Garden Cities
Posted on: 11 March 2013
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The Town and Country Planning Association has re-published Norman Macfayden’s Health and Garden Cities, the first of a ‘New Series’ of pamphlets published by the TCPA (at the time, operating under the name Garden Cities and Town Planning Association), issued in 1940. Over 70 years on, the pamphlet is still of critical relevance today as the Government embarks on both a reform of public health and a new generation of Garden Cities and Suburbs. It highlights how Garden City planning made a significant contribution to improving the quality of life of ordinary people, providing an unparalleled improvement on what had come before.
Ageing better by design
Posted on: 28 February 2013
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The Design Council has held two Design Forums on how design can respond to the needs of an ageing population. A series of talks on the built environment and products and services is available to view online.
Preparing Borough Tree and Woodland Strategies
Posted on: 28 February 2013
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This Supplementary Planning Guidance is a joint publication between the Greater London Authority and the Forestry Commission. It sets out an approach to trees and woodland that: covers the audit, protection and management of trees and woodland in line with Policy 7.21 of the London Plan; highlights the asset value of trees and woodland, both in financial terms and the broad range of economic and environmental benefits they provide; considers all the trees in a borough as a single unified resource, an ‘urban forest’; extends the concept of an ‘urban forest’ across boundaries so that the cumulative benefits of trees to Londoners can be enhanced; and takes a step by step approach to the management of trees and woodland. Two case studies, showing the approach taken by one inner and one outer London Borough, are attached as these may be helpful to other boroughs.
Shaping neighbourhoods: Character and context
Posted on: 21 February 2013
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The Mayor has published for public consultation draft Supplementary Planning Guidance to help with the implementation of policies in Chapter 7 of the 2011 London Plan, particularly Policies 7.4 on Local Character and 7.1 on Building London’s Neighbourhoods and Communities. The draft document sets out an approach and process to help understand the character and context of a place so that its results can inform the planning and design process, and guide change in way which is responsive to individual places and locations. A non-technical summary sets out the main messages of the main SPG. Comments on the draft SPG are requested by 12 May 2013.
Town Centres: Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance
Posted on: 21 February 2013
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The Mayor of London has issued for public consultation draft supplementary planning guidance on Town Centres. This provides guidance on the implementation of London Plan Policy 2.15 Town centres and its associated Annex, and of other policies in the Plan with specific reference to town centre development and management. It also provides guidance on Policy 2.16 Strategic Outer London Development Centres and their potential to be developed as business locations with distinct strengths of greater than sub regional importance. Comments are requested by 31 May 2013.
Rights to light: A consultation paper
Posted on: 19 February 2013
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The Law Commission has laid out a number of proposals in its consultation in to rights to light, in a bid to bring greater clarity. The consultation paper considers the law relating to the entire life-cycle of a right to light, from creation to extinguishment. It makes several provisional proposals and requests consultees’ views on a number of other areas. Comments are requested by 18 May 2013.
The reshaping of retail
Posted on: 18 February 2013
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The total number of shops in the UK will fall by more than 10% by the end of the decade, according to a report commissioned by Hammerson from retail consultant Conlumino. The report finds that pressures on spending, and the continuing rise of multi-channel retail will cause floorspace to shrink by 5.7% to 527m sq ft by 2020. Retail spending, however, is likely to increase in the period to 2022, as the twin influences of smartphones and an ageing population exert themselves over the direction of sales growth.
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