Town and Country Planning articles from February 2003

Town and Country Planning archives from February 2003

Planning, competitiveness, and productivity: TCPA submission to the ODPM: housing, planning, local government and the regions committee on inquiry into planning, competitiveness and productivity.
February 1, 2003... The 1947 Act nationalised land development rights, and the state's power to confer permission to develop land is to be exercised in the public interest. This point is important because the planning system is deliberately designed to regulate...

Evelyn Denington--a personal appreciation.
February 1, 2003... Evelyn Denington was recruited to the TCPA's cause by Frederic Osborn, as were so many others eager to help 'Build a Better Britain' after the Second World War. His missionary zeal and philosophy inspired Evelyn, as a St Pancras and London City...

Rediscovering forgotten glories. (Planning World).
February 1, 2003... The endless British property boom, rolling on into its eighth or ninth year, defies the basic law of economic gravity: that what goes up must go down. Doubtless a Nobel Prize winning thesis is being composed as you read this, called The Law of...

Unwinding the South east's dominance. (People & Ideas).
February 1, 2003... There are countries, like Italy and the Netherlands, where the characteristics of major cities are shared between half a dozen places, of which the capital is not the dominant settlement. And there are countries like Britain and France, with a...

In the bleak midwinter. (Off the Fence).
February 1, 2003... It is January, and very cold. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. Several hundred plastic bags have been caught by the hedge next to Sainsbury's car park and are thrashing frantically in the icy wind which is blowing straight off the...

The Scottish Cities Review--a missed opportunity? While the recently published Scottish Cities Review package of proposals offers much less than many had hoped for, it nevertheless offers a reasonable starting point for tackling urban and regional problems in Scotland, and might ultimately act as a catalyst for fresh thinking about the future of its cities.
February 1, 2003... After a lengthy wait the report of Scottish Executive's two-year long Cities Review was finally launched on 9 January. While we would not go as far as some of the negative reactions in the national and professional press, it is clear that the...

Great future for the RTPI: there are important things to be said and written about the RTPI during its current programme of radical change and re-assessment, but they were not to be found in an article recently published in T&CP.
February 1, 2003... Now, I'm an open-minded sort of chap. So when I read Huw Thomas' article in the October 2002 issue of Town & Country Planning, entitled 'What future for the RTPI?', I sought to take it seriously. I know Mr Thomas. He has always struck me as a...

RTPI reforms.
February 1, 2003... There may be readers who will confuse the controversial opinions of Huw Thomas ('What future for the RTPI?'. T&CP, Oct. 2002) as being an expression of the policy of the TCPA with regard to the Royal Town Planning Institute. It is not. The...

All charged up--early lessons from the Durham congestion-charging scheme: several towns and cities in the UK are currently considering introducing road user charging schemes, but, four and a half months ahead of the introduction of the London scheme, Durham was the first to bite the bullet and actually go ahead and implement one.
February 1, 2003... All charged up--early lessons from the Durham congestion-charging scheme: several towns and cities in the UK are currently considering introducing road user charging schemes, but, four and a half months ahead of the introduction of the London...

Strategic waste planning and the role of regional technical advisory bodies: Simin Davoudi and Neil Evans look at the profound changes in the context for strategic waste planning that have taken place over the last decade, and in particular the emerging role of the regional technical advisory bodies in strategic waste planning.
February 1, 2003... Over the last decade profound changes have taken place in the context for strategic waste planning, including growing political and public interest in (and tensions over) sub-national waste management and the reconfiguration of institutional...

Will regional spatial strategies need regional transport powers? Regional transport strategies are unaffected by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, but they should be processed as an integral part of--and thus be subservient to--the new regional spatial strategies.
February 1, 2003... Land use and transport planning at the regional scale was brought to an end with the abolition of the regional economic planning councils (REPCs) in the 1970s. It had been the REPCs that had produced long-term visionary regional plans...

The rise of the farmstead-hamlet--a new rural settlement pattern? Mark Cassidy, John Darlington, David Hodcroft, Helen Lowe, David Marno, and David Alexander report on research into changes of use from working farmsteads to permanent residential complexes.
February 1, 2003... At a time when the rural economy is undergoing a further period of vigorous change and when not only single farm buildings but whole farmsteads are seeking change of use, research by a team of planning practitioners in the North West has...

Counting the counterurbanisers: John Allinson looks at the evidence of continuing metropolitan out-migration in the UK over the 1990s revealed by new data sets.
February 1, 2003... In the mid-1970s, the American geographer Calvin Beale identified a new trend in the geography of population change in the USA. Between 1970 and 1973, he observed that population had grown faster in the non-metropolitan than in metropolitan...

Paying for enforcement: those who knowingly flout the planning system by carrying out development without applying for permission should be made to pay the costs of enforcement.
February 1, 2003... If apply for planning permission, I pay a fee to the local council which broadly reflects the cost to that council of processing the planning application. One can argue whether planning fees are a good thing--planning control operates in the...

How the plan-making system operates.
February 1, 2003... Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing By Jonathan Murdoch and Simone Abram Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, ISBN: 1 84014 929 9, 2002, HB, 1 74 pp., index, 37.50 [pounds sterling] This is an...

What's on.
February 1, 2003... March 20 Delivering an Effective Sustainable and Secure Energy Policy: Taking forward Proposals in the White Paper. Seminar, London. 295 [pounds sterling] + VAT. Details: Louise Rushworth, QMW Public Policy Seminars, Hebden Bridge. Tel....

Planning to rebuild the World Trade Centre. (Inside America).
February 1, 2003... Amid the tumult of the 'War on Terrorism', with its combination of genuine outrage and sorrow, hysteria, and cynical manipulation of public fear, the process of planning for rebuilding the World Trade Centre (WTC) has been fascinating. There is...