Town and Country Planning articles from December 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from December 2004

25 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
December 1, 2004... PLANNING--historically as now--is about making space for things to happen. Tragically, as a creative factor in our lives, planning has been attenuated to the point of disappearance--and Administration Rules, OK! For planning has values that the...

10 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
December 1, 2004... AS AN attempt to deflect development away from the west to the east of London, the Thames Gateway strategy is well-founded. But the planning and development of the area should be seen as a golden opportunity to test and apply the principles of...

5 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
December 1, 2004... PLANNERS have been very unwise to neglect the changing geography of jobs. A massive debate on houses and households has taken place as if jobs do not matter. But, of course, they do. The housing pressures so resented in the shires of southern...

Context: news digest, November 2004.(Content)
December 1, 2004... * 1.11 Planning: The ODPM releases Circular 06/2004, Compulsory Purchase and the Crichel Down Rules, on how local authorities should use compulsory purchase powers under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act. ...

Merge RHBs and RPBs--but mind the democracy gap.(Inside Stories)
December 1, 2004... * Housing and Planning in the Regions: Consultation Paper. ODPM, London, Sept 2004 The TCPA Response RESPONDING to the ODPM consultation paper Housing and Planning in the Regions, the TCPA expressed support for the proposal to merge...

Participation and democracy.(Inside Stories)
December 1, 2004... THE TCPA has published the 14th in its Tomorrow Series of discussion papers. People, Planning and Power--Beyond New Localisation, by Hugh Ellis, argues that although the Government recognises the importance of public participation in better...

Pursuing the homes for Britain agenda.(Inside Stories)
December 1, 2004... 'Homes for Britain: A Planning and Sustainable Communities Conference' TCPA Conference, Maidstone, Kent, 26-27 October 2004 STRAP-LINED 'A Planning and Sustainable Communities Conference', the TCPA's 'Homes for Britain' event held on 26-27...

The wisdom of the street.(People & Ideas)
December 1, 2004... SOME OF US remember the days when professional planners welcomed the fact that, in some cities, the wartime bombing gave them something like a tabula rasa on which to demonstrate their skills. Within a decade, the public was cherishing the odd...

Cultural tourism and the intellectual Olympics.(Planning World)
December 1, 2004... A RATHER amazing thing happened in Barcelona this summer, and it hasn't got the attention it deserved. The Mayor, Joan Clos, was looking around for an event to rival the Olympic Games, which his celebrated predecessor Pascal Maragal had carried...

Rural dilemmas remain: the Government's Rural Strategy is ambitious in its aim to reform institutions and delivery structures, but there remain unresolved dilemmas and some major gaps that need to be addressed if its ambitions are to be realised.(rural policy)
December 1, 2004... IN JULY, during the final week of the parliamentary session, the Government published its long-awaited Rural Strategy 2004. (1) The Strategy is the result of a prolonged process of evidence-gathering, analysis and deliberation which began with...

And now for a period of regional drift? John Deegan reflects on the loose ends left by the North East's referendum vote against an elected regional assembly.(regional governance)
December 1, 2004... ABRAHAM LINCOLN may once have said that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, but today's version of his bon mots seems to be that if you can fool enough of the people enough of the time then you can probably get more or less what...

The inequity in bricks and mortar: new research has revealed an unprecedented scale of disparities in housing wealth in the UK, and the trend for housing wealth to rise much faster for better-off families than for poorer households is set to continue.(housing market)
December 1, 2004... HOUSING IS the single greatest repository for wealth held by individuals in the United Kingdom. According to 2002 official figures, this wealth is almost twice as high as the financial worth of all life assurance and pension funds. More than...

Half a step forward for geoconservation: Murray Gray welcomes the increased recognition for geoconservation in the consultation draft of PPS9, but argues that the opportunity for an integrated approach to nature conservation and land management has been missed.(nature conservation)
December 1, 2004... THE CONSULTATION DRAFT of the intended replacement for PPG9: Nature Conservation (1) proposes to retitle PPS9 (Planning Policy Statement 9) as Biodiversity and Geological Conservation. This should be hugely welcomed since nature conservation is...

Creating communities of the future: marking the TCPA journal's centenary year, the Deputy Prime Minister The Rt Hon. John Prescott MP outlines of sustainable communities.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... I SPENT some time in Chicago this summer, speaking at a conference on the future of cities. The Congress for the New Urbanism had been in town a week or so before--and it was easy to see why Chicago has become a magnet for people with an...

Spreading the word--100 years in the life of a campaigning journal: Dennis Hardy looks back over the highs and lows of a century of publication of the TCPA journal.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... THE VERY ORIGINS of the Garden City movement were rooted in words. The words, written and spoken, of the movement's founder, Ebenezer Howard; the words of his fellow pioneers, who carried the message often well beyond national boundaries; and...

Events, events: Peter Hall looks ahead to the issues likely to fill the pages of T&CP in the near future.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... WILL THE second century of Town & Country Planning really presage "a second golden era of planning... just beginning to dawn in this country; as I rashly wrote in these pages not long ago? Or will it usher in one of decade-long periods of...

The conundrum of the Third Magnet: Michael Hebbert casts an eye to the future for signs of further experiments in realising Howard's 'Third Magnet'.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DIAGRAM NO. 1 of To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is famously epigrammatic. (1) In Routledge's 2003 full-colour facsimile, Ebenezer Howard's three magnets look as red and solid as if he had just picked them...

100 years of common sense: Colin Ward on the 'remarkable achievement' of the TCPA journal.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... IT WAS inevitable that with the formation of a Garden City Association in 1899, a journal was bound to follow. Volume 1, number 1 of The Garden City appeared in October 1904, and the name soon changed to Garden Cities and Town Planning with the...

Celebration of 100 years in print.(100 Years of the TCPA Journal)
December 1, 2004... TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING magazine celebrated its centenary this summer with a splendid fund-raising commemorative dinner at the Glaziers' Hall by London Bridge on 14 July. Some 13,000 [pounds sterling] was raised through the event. Prominent...

Turning NIMBYs into IMBYs: Tim Leunig proposes a system of housing land allocation and acquisition that would enable local communities to gain when they permit more houses to be built, and so may help win wider public support for much-needed new housebuilding.(housing land)
December 1, 2004... ALTHOUGH ASPECTS of the Barker Review of Housing Supply have been criticised, the reaction to the review report makes it clear that there is--at last--a consensus that we need more houses, especially in the South East. Without an increase in...

A sense of wabi-sabi and the return of authentic places: we need to rediscover the skills necessary to create places that are human in scale and that people innately recognise as 'authentic'--places that can retain people, history, and tradition.(place-making)(Cover Story)
December 1, 2004... I WAS INVOLVED over the summer with the launch of a campaign by the New Economics Foundation called 'Clone Town Britain'. Unlike some of the campaigns I have been involved in over the last couple of decades--when the result has often been less...

Intellectual activism and modern land use planning: in the first of a series of three articles marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Patrick Geddes in 1854, Neil Grieve, Deborah Peel, and Greg Lloyd examine Geddes' legacy and reputation as a thinker and a doer and his resonance with contemporary planning issues.(planning history and current practice)
December 1, 2004... PATRICK GEDDES is often cited as one of the founders of modern town and regional planning. Helen Meller, a biographer of Geddes, suggested that be was someone who "pioneered a sociological approach to the study of urbanisation; discovered that...

The new dawn breaks--development plans and the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.(Legal Eye)
December 1, 2004... While the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (the 2004 Act) has been with us since the spring of this year, 28 September 2004 marked the introduction of the first significant tranche of reforms associated with the Act, namely those...

Legislating for good design--the next step or a step too far?(Design Matters)
December 1, 2004... THE Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 is now in force. During its extended passage through Parliament, pressure from CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), the Royal Institute of British Architects, Richard...

Useful pointer, thin on solutions.
December 1, 2004... Clone Town Britain: The Loss of Local Identity on the Nation's High Streets By Molly Conisbee et al. New Economics Foundation, London, Sept. 2004, ISBN 1 899407 90 1, PB, 7.50 [pounds sterling] http://www.neweconomics.org CLONE TOWN...

Compelling case.
December 1, 2004... Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets By Clara Greed Architectural Press, Oxford, 2003, ISBN 07506 5385 X, PB, 189 X 246 mm, 384pp., 34.99 [pounds sterling] THOSE FAMILIAR with the work of Clara Greed will know her long-standing passion...

Welcome return.
December 1, 2004... Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape By Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward Five Leaves Publications, Nottingham, 2004, ISBN 0907123 910, PB, 320pp., 12.99 [pounds sterling] T: 0115-969 3397 W: http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk IT COMES...

Born to binge--a rejoinder.(writeback)
December 1, 2004... MY ORIGINAL ARTICLE 'Born to binge' (T&CP, March 2004) was not really intended to be especially controversial. It seems to me self-evident that the English have a problem with alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour in urban centres at night....

'Euro-proofing' the Northern Way?(The Euro-Files)
December 1, 2004... SINCE THE publication of the second 'Sustainable Communities Plan' progress report, Making it Happen: The Northern Way, in February 2004, there has been much debate over the implications of the growth strategy proposed for the three northern...