Town and Country Planning articles

Recent articles from Town and Country Planning

Going European with sustainable communities: the Government's enthusiasm for European solutions on urban policy--demonstrated in recent speeches by the Deputy Prime Minister--is welcome, says Liz Mills, but to make the most of the opportunity this presents we need to make more effective use of the EU 'system' and build upon previous work, especially the efforts of local authorities across Europe committed to urban sustainability.(european urban policy)
November 1, 2005... ON 10 SEPTEMBER 2005, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott made a wide-ranging speech to the International Congress of the Council of European Urbanism in Berlin) In it he set out his vision of sustainable communities as places that "balance the social, economic and environmental concerns of...

The PGS--questions and options: many of the promises made for PGS are a major step forward and are a tempting prospect; but the loose ends and unknowns left unaddressed by the consultation paper make it difficult to give the PGS proposal wholehearted support, and there ought to be more examination of alternative ways of achieving the same objectives.(planning gain supplement)
January 1, 2006... ROUGHLY 18 MONTHS after the report of Kate Barker's Review of Housing Supply, the Government has published its draft proposals for a 'Planning Gain Supplement' (PGS) as part of Gordon Brown's pre-budget package. (1) There are two basic propositions that came out of Kate Barker's own...

A decisive shift in supply policy.(Talking Houses)
January 1, 2006... 'THE GOVERNMENT has accepted the case set out in the Barker Review for a step-change in housing supply.' This is the key sentence in the Government's response to the report of Kate Barker's Review of Housing Supply, (1) and it marks a decisive shift in Government policy. Significantly, the...