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Neighbourhood planning: A simple guide for ward councilors
Posted on: 29 June 2012
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This guide from the Planning Advisory Service which aims to help ward councillors: understand the basics of neighbourhood planning think about what this means for their community, and think about their role as a ward councillor.
Community Right to Bid – Impact Assessment: Localism Act 2011
Posted on: 27 June 2012
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This document is the final impact assessment of the Community Right to Bid measures contained in the Localism Act 2011 and the proposed associated regulations. The Impact Assessment has been revised to reflect results of a public consultation and debate within the Houses of Parliament.
Viability testing local plans: Advice for planning practitioners
Posted on: 25 June 2012
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The Local Housing Delivery Group, set up by housing minister Grant Shapps, has published an assessment of Local Plans’ ability to deliver new homes. This report is a resource for local authorities to help ensure their local plans are viable and deliverable. It provides practical, step-by-step advice for planning practitioners on how their local plans can effectively address the viability of residential land in their area. The Group has produced an interim report, A Review of Local Standards for the Delivery of New Homes. It concludes that there is significant scope for simplification of the standards regime and recommends an urgent Government-backed review and consolidation of existing local housing standards to ensure they meet the aspirations of local communities without undermining viability.
The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendum) Regulations 2012
Posted on: 25 June 2012
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The Government has laid before Parliament draft regulations for how neighbourhood planning referendums should work, including the wording of questions. Referendums must be held on a neighbourhood development plan, a neighbourhood development order or a community right to build order.
Privately owned public space: where are they and who owns them?
Posted on: 21 June 2012
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The Guardian newspaper is embarking on an ambitious project to create a map of privatised public spaces in Britain, and would welcome assistance and contributions from the public. Information is requested on open spaces, from streets and city squares to village greens, beaches and riverbanks, where there’s a reasonable expectation that the space might be public.
Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places. Delft, The Netherlands, 13-16 May 2012
Posted on: 21 June 2012
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Regions and cities are increasingly interdependent; economically, socially and environmentally. Patterns of interactions between regions are experiencing rapid changes as a result of dramatic shifts in production and consumption patterns, advances in communication technologies and the development of transport infrastructure. These changes pose many challenges for the analysis and management of regions. At the same time, regions are becoming increasingly fragmented in many ways. Classic forms of government based on clear-cut arrangements between administrative levels, policy sectors and the public and private domain are no longer sufficient. The result is a complex pattern of overlapping governance and fuzzy boundaries, not just in a territorial sense but also in terms of the role of both public and private actors. The 2012 RSA conference provided a timely opportunity for participants to come together and reflect on the various strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities of networked cities and regions within these different contexts of fragmentation. Papers presented at the conference are available online.
Re-mixing the city: Towards sustainability and resilience. Vienna, 14-16 May 2012
Posted on: 21 June 2012
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REAL CORP conferences are 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 and 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. It is possible to research the archive of all papers presented since 1996 here.
Cities worldwide are facing rapid social, economic, environmental, technological and cultural changes such as: rapid urbanisation, aging of society, security issues, housing emergency, new solutions on mobility, integration of immigrants, food and water shortage, etc. Especially in times of economic crisis and demographic changes in cities, it is necessary to think about how to best handle what we have, and therefore “RE-MIXING THE CITY” is a challenge to manage and re-combine the elements which make our modern cities in order to better respond to change. This event offered the possibility to collectively discuss a wide range of topics in different panel groups and workshops. Questions considered included:
Can “mixed cities” be more sustainable and resilient?
Time-space patterns of the 24/7 city?
Is it the purpose of spatial planning to “sort land uses in space”?
Do the urban patterns and structure of our cities still meet the needs of the people in their everyday life?
How do urban, transport and environmental technologies and solutions shape our cities?
Does and can migration re-mix the city?
What is the role of urban planning in these processes?
A large number of presentations and papers are available online.
Metropolisation of river basins, between threats and opportunities. Vienna, 15 May 2012
Posted on: 15 June 2012
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The International Urban Development Association (INTA), together with Central European Institute of Technology (CEIT), organised a one-day round-table hosted at the 17th Real Corp International Conference in Austria. This international event represents the occasion to explore the new dimensions of urban development along river basins. Several fascinating cases have been identified that provide solutions to the questions raised by the metropolisation process. Policy makers, urban stakeholders and practitioners were there to inspire an imaginative and critic approach to future policy development. Thematic issue that were explored included: How such corridor can foster regional interactions; How sharing a river basin can be leverage for a coherent and cohesive development; How to maintain a balanced urban growth together with the protection of natural corridors; Which integrated governance mechanism allows sharing large infrastructural equipments along a river basin; How to develop different scales of connection fostering urban and regional interactions along the river and within the territories around. Presentations, a final report, and background documentation are available online.
Redefining “Urban”: A new way to measure metropolitan areas
Posted on: 14 June 2012
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This report compares urbanisation trends in OECD countries on the basis of a newly defined OECD methodology which enables cross-country comparison of the socio-economic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in OECD countries. The methodology is presented and results from its application to 27 OECD countries are discussed together with policy implication both on national growth and governance of cities. The report also includes three original papers that present the urbanisation dynamics and prospects in China and South Africa and the governance challenges resulting from the new policy agenda on cities in the United Kingdom. [ISBN 9789264174054 £24]
Compact city policies : A comparative assessment
Posted on: 14 June 2012
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This book, published by the OECD, examines the concept of the compact city and the implication of the current urban context for compact city policies. It explores their potential outcomes, particularly in terms of how it can contribute to Green Growth and looks at developing indicators to monitor compact city and track policy performance. It reviews compact city policies currently being implemented across the OECD in relation to the pursuit of Green Growth objectives and provides ideas to achieve better outcomes. [ISBN 9789264167841 £81 (£56 for pdf)]
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