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A manifesto for a more prosperous urban Britain
Posted on: 23 September 2014
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The Centre for Cities think tank has launched its 2015 General Election ‘Urban Nation’ Manifesto, aimed at providing a practical vision for building a stronger UK national economy based on more powerful, better-resourced cities. At its heart, the Manifesto calls for the establishment of a Cities and Prosperity Act in the first year of the new Parliament, if not before, which will seek to overcome the barriers currently holding back UK cities from realising their potential. The Act would introduce a presumption in favour of devolution, and legislate to enable governance, finance, skills, housing and transport reforms, as the five most critical levers to drive growth and renewal in UK cities.
Removing obstacles to brownfield developments
Posted on: 23 September 2014
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The latest Housing Foresight paper from the Campaign to Protect Rural England argues that the Government can do more to protect green spaces by facilitating house building on brownfield land.
Living places: An urban stewardship and design guide for Northern Ireland
Posted on: 23 September 2014
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This Urban Stewardship and Design Guide aims to clearly establish the key principles behind good place making. It seeks to inform and inspire all those involved in the process of managing (stewardship) and making (design) urban places, with a view to raising standards across Northern Ireland.
The era of radical concrete
Posted on: 19 September 2014
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This article describes how a massive collection of images from British urban developments of the 1960s and 1970s now provides a treasure trove for those who want to reassess a vilified era of town planning. The article prompted a significant response from readers, who wrote in with their own memories and experiences of living in these areas. These can be found here.
Tribute to Sir Peter Hall in Regional Studies
Posted on: 19 September 2014
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This link provides free access to a collection of articles highlighting the contribution of Sir Peter Hall to the journal Regional Studies.
Targeting the countryside
Posted on: 17 September 2014
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A new research paper from the Campaign to Protect Rural England shows that steep targets for the amount of land councils must allocate for housing are opening the door to major housing developments in the countryside. The paper studies the appeal decisions on applications for major housing developments on greenfield land between March 2012 and May 2014. It finds that planning inspectors overturned the decisions of local councils in 72 per cent of cases where there was no defined land supply.
Planning and travellers: proposed changes to planning policy and guidance
Posted on: 16 September 2014
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The government is consulting on proposed changes to national planning policy and planning policy for traveller sites to ensure that the planning system applies fairly and equally to both the settled community and travellers; strengthen protection of our sensitive areas and the green belt; and deal with the negative effects of unauthorised occupation of land. It also seeks comments on new streamlined planning guidance for travellers which supports local authorities to objectively and robustly assess their traveller accommodation needs and further clarifies where Temporary Stop Notices can be used. Comments are requested by 23 November 2014.
Uxcester Garden City
Posted on: 5 September 2014
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This submission on how best to deliver a new garden city won the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014. This document describes a plan to create a garden city of almost 400,000 people by doubling the size of an existing city. It is based on a real city, but not one that is identified. It is called Uxcester and is created from an amalgam of at least six other cities, all places with populations nearing 200,000, with long histories, established institutions and settled communities.
Expanding the neighbourhood plan evidence base
Posted on: 3 September 2014
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This is a report by Locus Consulting funded by English Heritage which explores the evidence available to neighbourhood planning groups about the historic environment, and how local groups can be better connected to this information to protect local heritage. Over 93% of Neighbourhood Plans are engaging with the heritage of their areas, yet the uptake and use of heritage information varies from one plan to the next. The availability of information, alongside awareness of resources and understanding of its applications, is strongly influencing how communities are able to consider the historic environment in planning for their local places. Better use of the evidence base for heritage in Neighbourhood Plans will help to ensure that development proposals take account of the local historic environment and will enhance rather than harm it wherever possible.
A forward looking planning manifesto
Posted on: 22 August 2014
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City law firm Addleshaw Goddard has published a manifesto which sets out nine ways it says would streamline and improve the planning system.
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