Town and Country Planning articles from April 2001

Town and Country Planning archives from April 2001

VIEWPOINT.
April 1, 2001... As a consequence of exceptional rainfall and flooding in Middle England at Easter 1998 and further very serious episodes during the following winter seasons, a consultation draft planning policy guidance note, PPG25: Development and Flood Risk,...

Re-inventing the sociable city.
April 1, 2001... This month I am visiting an international conference in the new town of Almere in the Netherlands on the theme of `Planned communities in a polycentric Europe'. It will present the conclusions of two years of co-operation between interested...

Signs of decay.
April 1, 2001... In Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago to lecture to the University of Pennsylvania's excellent planning school, I was struck by a curious sense of deja vu. Hadn't I been here before? Well yes, actually, but years ago. Then it struck me: during...

Why walking and urban green spaces are good for each other.
April 1, 2001... At the end of January, the DETR announced the creation of an Urban Green Spaces Task Force,(1) and the House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee has recently been taking evidence in its investigation into...

Local government modernisation - the challenge for planners.
April 1, 2001... Neighbourhood renewal, community plans, the duty of well-being... the Government's modernisation agenda raises many major issues for planners, says Ines Newman As the Government's modernisation programme is put in place, a complex new...

A new commitment to neighbourhood renewal.
April 1, 2001... The neighbourhood renewal Action Plan is an immense step forward, but its success is dependent upon resolution of a number of outstanding issues, says Marilyn Taylor After lengthy and intensive consultation, the National Strategy for...

Can Bob fix it?
April 1, 2001... As the Government considers the responses to its Future of Aviation consultation paper, Simon Bishop examines the issues posed by increasing demand for air transport Aviation Minister Bob Ainsworth drew the shutters down on the airports...

Ken gets tough on affordable housing.
April 1, 2001... Andrew Lainton looks at the London Housing Commission's Housing for a World City report - and Mayor Ken Livingstone's next moves on affordable housing Last year, Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, appointed a Housing Commission,...

Flooding and planning conflict and confusion.
April 1, 2001... Edmund Penning-Rowsell discusses the causes of and policy responses to the recent round of severe flooding Many parts of Britain have seen extraordinary flooding in the last six months, focusing particularly on south east England, the...

Managing flood risk in the UK.
April 1, 2001... The autumn 2000 floods highlight the need for innovative long-term risk management strategies, focusing on prevention and adaptation, says Frank Thomalla During the two months between 15 October and 14 December 2000, the UK experienced one...

Flooding and the use of land.
April 1, 2001... John Boardman looks at the role of agricultural land use in the recent history of flooding In the past few months, with widespread and persistent flooding in England and Wales, Government ministers, the Environment Agency, and a hysterical...

Towns in flood.
April 1, 2001... Bob Wilkins of East Sussex County Council sifts through the aftermath of the autumn floods in Lewes and Uckfield for some pointers for the future On the morning of 12 October, Uckfield in East Sussex woke to a raging torrent of water, as...

Sealed over; squeezed dry.
April 1, 2001... We need to review the role of both urban and rural semi-natural green space, says Chris Baines By about the age of three I had learned (the painful way) that water flows down a hill; that if it meets a bottleneck it overflows; and that...

Delivering sustainable development -- a framework for setting targets and monitoring outcomes.
April 1, 2001... Peter Roberts, Andrew Llanwarne, and Tony Jackson report on research into sustainable development performance measures that look beyond a`one-size-fits-all' approach and take account of the real and varied characteristics and problems of...

How structure planning can help regeneration.
April 1, 2001... The regeneration of urban areas is one of the main concerns facing government in Scotland. Planners often see their role in regeneration as being limited to physical issues, in particular land reclamation and environmental improvements. As...

Event fixation -- thinking out of the room.
April 1, 2001... Workshops, visioning conferences, Future Search, focus groups... they're everywhere you look. Such events seem to be synonymous with the participative process, but do our experiences of them square with their reputation? I've been involved in...

Should people `pay back' for welfare?
April 1, 2001... There's a very modern dilemma, and it's suddenly very common, especially now that `social inclusion' is high up the political agenda. Many agencies face it in inner cities, and most of them either fudge it or carry on arguing about it instead...

What's Out.
April 1, 2001... Planning, local government, and society * Thames Gateway Review: Final Report. Roger Tym & Partners/Three Dragons for the DETR. Available from DETR Publications Sales Centre. Tel. 01709 891 318. Jan. 2001, 25[pounds sterling] *...

Race and Planning: The UK Experience.
April 1, 2001... Race and Planning: The UK Experience By Huw Thomas UCL Press, London, 2000, ISBN 1-857-28357-0, PB, 155pp. + x, index, 16.95[pounds sterling] (HB, ISBN 1-857-28356-2) `Race' is one of the basic variables which affects how we understand the...

Cities for a Small Country.
April 1, 2001... Cities for a Small Country By Richard Rogers and Anne Power Faber and Faber, London, 2000, ISBN 0-571-20652-2, PB, 31 Opp. + viii, index, 14.99[pounds sterling] First there was the little pink book with vivid green lettering in its...

Connections.
April 1, 2001... Fact or fiction? At a recent meeting to discuss problems with the planning system, one participant suggested that it would be reasonable for public fear of a technology to be taken into account in dealing with a planning application even...

Back Log.
April 1, 2001... Fifty years ago You live with your wife's parents in one room of their basement and ground-floor part of a small house. When you married on leaving the army five years ago you had sentimental ideas of a cottage with roses round the door...