Town and Country Planning articles from April 2005

Town and Country Planning archives from April 2005

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
April 1, 2005... PLANNERS can help to shape a sensible policy for the supply and use of energy. Through development control in its broadest sense they can influence the design, construction and layout of energy-efficient buildings, and, in work that has...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
April 1, 2005... WE happily devise 'average wage' indices and 'standard of living' indices; we mark off a threshold below which poverty is deemed to exist. Why not reverse all this and mark off a level above which unnecessary wealth is represented? It is a sad...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
April 1, 2005... WE all use schools and hospitals constructed from aggregates, but who wants a gravel pit, or the road haul, passing their door? People can agree the generality, but find difficulty with the particular. Even 'broad areas of search' are difficult...

Under-provision of homes will have dire consequences for South East, says TCPA.
April 1, 2005... The charitable purpose of the Town and Country Planning Association is to improve the art and science of town and country planning. It is the only independent organisation concerned with planning and housing covering the UK and is the longest...

Lost opportunities?
April 1, 2005... * Planning for Mixed Communities. Consultation paper on Proposed Changes to PPG3. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, Jan. 2005 The TCPA Response THE TCPA is strongly supportive of the Government's stated intentions to create...

A city gardener.(People & Ideas)
April 1, 2005... I FIRST HEARD about Karl Linn from a one-time boss of mine, the planner and landscape architect Peter Shepheard, who had been a visiting professor at Pennsylvania University, whence Linn would send his students to help with local community...

La Ville Radieuse meets MK.(Planning World)
April 1, 2005... HERE'S A winning idea for the TCPA: combine business and pleasure in a unique package, and generate some useful income to boot, by reinventing the old tradition of foreign study tours which the Association did so successfully in the 1950s. And...

Crisis? What crisis?(Trading Places)
April 1, 2005... THE PROBLEMS faced by major 'high street' retailers in Britain have become headline news, to an extent that I cannot recall in previous years. Marks & Spencer in particular has earned several slots on primetime television news, because of the...

After the poll is over.(Off the Fence)
April 1, 2005... THE WAY I vote on 5 May will remain a private matter, but I expect it will hurt--to pretend that I am happy with charging students for being at university when my generation had been relatively free; with the collapse of the 10 Year Transport...

Effective regional planning for the wider South East? Martin Simmons looks at how the spatial strategies for the East of England and South East regions are shaping up and how they relate to the London Plan.(regional planning)
April 1, 2005... THE DRAFT East of England Plan, submitted to the Government in December 2004 (1) and the pre-submission draft of the South East Plan, published in January 2005, (2) provide an opportunity to review: * the operation of the regional spatial...

Towards joined-up planning--making a start in West London: Nicholas Falk and Pater Hall set out proposals for joining up regeneration and transport planning in West London in ways that could provide a model for regional planning in other conurbations.(transport and regeneration)
April 1, 2005... ONE REASON WHY the UK's cities continue to lag behind their Continental counterparts is our failure to join up transport and land use planning. As a result we live in a strange kind of virtual reality, where schemes like London's Crossrail are...

Affordable housing through the planning system--does it make housing more or less affordable: Barry Pearce looks at the economic impacts of attempts to implement a policy of producing new affordable housing through the planning system, and at the market's response.(planning and affordable housing)
April 1, 2005... PERMITTED AND indeed positively encouraged by government guidance, local authorities are increasingly imposing an affordable housing requirement on new private housing developments. A recent study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has...

Homes for the future--a sustainable way to accommodate one-person households: as we seek to accommodate increasing number of single-person households, one novel, but potentially environmentally and socially sustainable approach has so far been over looked.(single-person housing)
April 1, 2005... EVER SINCE the release of the 1996-based household projections, the question of how best to accommodate the growth in small households and one-person households in particular has been a key planning issue. The issue is not simply one of...

Tensions in the digital city: given the continuing rapid development of the information society, city planners and managers need to reconsider their level of awareness--and their degree of control--of the impact of information technology on today's cities.(ICT and the city)
April 1, 2005... THE CONCEPT OF the 'digital city'--an urban environment whose functions, management, and regeneration processes were enhanced through the deployment of information and communication technologies--emerged in the second half of the 1990s. Digital...

A right to roam? Planning law, gypsies, and travellers.(Legal Eye)
April 1, 2005... FEW ISSUES facing local planning authorities give rise to the level of controversy associated with the provision of sites for gypsies and travellers (collectively referred to in this article as "the travelling population'), or the difficulties...

Doing what it says on the tin--PPS1 and sustainable design.(Design Matters)
April 1, 2005... DESIGN AND its treatment in government guidance over the last 25 years can be seen as a microcosm of planning more widely. A generation ago, local authorities dared not speak the 'd' word for fear of being branded stiflers of innovation and...

The perils and pitfalls of cleaning your own teeth.(Going Local)
April 1, 2005... THERE IS no doubt about it. If cleaning your teeth was something we could contract out, we would soon be forbidden to do it altogether--regulations would insist that we employ a fully trained professional with liability insurance. I exaggerate,...

J Barry Cullingworth--an appreciation.
April 1, 2005... PROFESSOR J BARRY CULLINGWORTH, best known for his official reports on housing and planning, and textbooks on planning in Britain and North America, died on 6 February, aged 75. Cullingworth was drawn into research on housing while studying...