Town and Country Planning articles from February 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from February 2004

25 years ago.(back bites)
February 1, 2004... OVERALL the expanded towns' contribution to our national policies on jobs and housing is an undoubted success. So the Government terminates the programme. Surely urban policy is not so ill-conceived that its guardians in SW1 really believe they...

10 years ago.(back bites)
February 1, 2004... WHILE the strategic debate over how windfarms should be developed is obviously useful, in practice, despite sometimes rather lurid media reports, the objectors remain a small minority. Perhaps the final issue is what to do about minority...

5 years ago.(back bites)
February 1, 2004... THERE IS the by now traditional reluctance to embrace solar technology. What is to prevent a nationwide experiment, linked to the new household projections and revised building regulations, requiring each new housing unit to generate a 1 kWhr...

Context: news digest, January 2004.
February 1, 2004... * 5.1 Planning: The ODPM issues a consultation document setting out proposed arrangements for the 'special delivery vehicle' for the growth of Milton Keynes under the 'Communities Plan'. Sustainable Communities: An Urban Development Area for...

Conflict and compromise.(Inside Stories)
February 1, 2004... * 'People, Power And Participation--Delivering sustainable communities through Involvement' TCPA Conference, 21 January 2004, London SPEAKERS AND DELEGATES at the TCPA's 'People, Power and Participation' conference considered their...

Positive planning needed for renewable energy.(Inside Stories)
February 1, 2004... * Consultation Paper on Draft New Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS22)--Renewable Energy. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, Nov. 2003 The TCPA Response THE TCPA HAS WELCOMED the review of PPG22: Renewable Energy as timely...

Framework for complexity?(Inside Stories)
February 1, 2004... * Draft Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Development Frameworks. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, Oct. 2003 The TCPA Response to the consultation paper RESPONDING TO the consultation draft of Planning Policy Statement...

Delivery the key.(Inside Stories)
February 1, 2004... * Consultation Paper on Draft Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional Planning. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London, Oct. 2003 The TCPA Response HAVING CAMPAIGNED for statutory regional plans since 1918, the TCPA has given a broad...

The new managerialism.(People & Ideas)
February 1, 2004... HALF A CENTURY AGO, a now forgotten American book, James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution, was much discussed. Its argument was that power in industrial enterprises had shifted from the shareholders to the managers. I have seen much...

The sorriest possible outcome.(Planning World)
February 1, 2004... DE L'AUDACE, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!!. Reading Alistair Darling's White Paper on airports policy, (1) I was sadly reminded of Georges-Jacques Danton's haunting phrase. Admittedly, the context was somewhat unusual: it was...

Lower-carbon food.(Getting Somewhere)
February 1, 2004... REDUCING carbon dioxide emissions often gets a mention in transport policy debates, but is rarely the main focus. The recent Wise Moves report from Transport 2000, focusing on food transportation, represents an admirable start in engaging with...

Town centres first? Cliff Guy examines the consultation draft of the new Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres and finds that while the overall emphasis of policy remains unchanged, there are changes in emphasis, some new ideas, and even some reversals of recent policy directions.(planning and retailing)
February 1, 2004... BACK IN 1998, the then Planning Minister Richard Caborn stated that 'Our policy of putting town centres first is here to stay. Let me be quite clear, we are not trying to strike a balance between town centres and out-of-town shopping. 'This was...

Putting which town centres first? Peter Jones, David Hillier, and Daphne Comfort examine some of the problems currently faced by many of the retail centres within small and medium-sized towns and cities in the light of draft PPS6.(retailing and planning)
February 1, 2004... DURING THE PAST DECADE, major modernisation, improvement, and regeneration schemes have been undertaken in the centres of many large towns and cities within the UK. Capital investment in new and enhanced retail development such as the Bull Ring...

Walking the walk: faced once again with an urgent need for large-scale development, there is a danger of falling into the trap of allowing burst of high-level strategic initiatives to be followed by long periods of failure to implement them. But we need to turn paper plans into action on the ground, and we need to do it now.(planning and development)
February 1, 2004... RICHARD INGRAMS, who admittedly is biased because he founded The Oldie, recently told an anecdote: a contestant on a TV show was asked what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963. He replied: 'I don't know. I wasn't watching then.' That,...

Putting wind turbines in their place.(renewable energy planning)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... Objections over possible detrimental visual impact have led to the rejection of many planning applications for wind turbines, threatening to undermine attempts to meet the Government's targets for renewable energy; yet few planning authorities...

Energy conservation--a non-planning matter? Is the planning system 'fit for purpose' in the pursuit of high-quality, sustainable urban growth? Julie King looks at the performance of the present system in delivering healthy, energy-efficient housing.(energy-efficient housing)
February 1, 2004... THE PLANNING SYSTEM places great emphasis on the aspiration for high-quality, sustainable residential design. But with notable exceptions, the system generally falls to deliver development that integrates good standards of energy efficiency,...

Understanding the links between production and consumption.
February 1, 2004... A Better Choice of Choice: Quality of Life, Consumption and Economic Growth By Roger Levett with Ian Christie, Michael Jacobs, and Riki Therivel Fabian Society Report 58 Fabian Society, London, 2003, ISBN 0 7163 3058 X, PB, 9.95 [pounds...

Real life and fakery.
February 1, 2004... Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life By David Boyle Flamingo/HarperCollins, London, ISBN 0-00-714016-9, PB 12.99 [pounds sterling], 315 pp. AUTHENTICITY has a comforting solidity in size, and a charming sincerity in...

Time for action.(Connections)
February 1, 2004... A HINT OF PANIC is beginning to creep into scientific assessments of the risks of climate change. David King, the UK Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, has attacked the Bush administration in unusually outspoken terms, using an article in...

Nowhere to play.(Connections)
February 1, 2004... SPOILSPORT ADULTS and local authorities are robbing children of old-fashioned play opportunities, according to two charities, the Children's Play Council and the Children's Society. In a survey covering 2,600 children and young people, the...

White boat man.(Connection)
February 1, 2004... EROSION from the wash of motorboats is damaging the historic buildings lining many of Venice's canals, so any scheme that can cut the number of delivery boats--Venice's equivalent to the white van--would be welcome. Venice already has a...

What's on.(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... March 8 Neighbourhood Effects and Urban Crime. Lecture by Steve Gibbons. LSE, London. Free. Details: Gill Wedlake, LSE. T: 020-7955 6889. W: www.lse.ac.uk/depts/london 8-9 Urban Rivers Workshop. Birmingham. Details: Mark Scott, SMURF...