Town and Country Planning articles from February 2006

Town and Country Planning archives from February 2006

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
February 1, 2006... WE ARE currently suffering from a vicious circle. The present organisation of government makes it impossible to progress regional planning, and the planners have not explained how regional planning would bring benefit if the organisation were...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
February 1, 2006... THE CHALLENGE that now faces us is fully comparable with the one that faced us 50 years ago, when the issue was homes for heroes; and with the one that faced us 35 years ago, when the issue was explosive population growth ('a Bristol a year',...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
February 1, 2006... ENGLISH regions are too big and too diverse for the sub-regional grain to be picked out solely on a top-down basis. We would be deluding ourselves if we did not recognise the need to find new mechanisms--in addition to regional planning...

Context: new digest, January 2006.(urban planning)(Recommended readings)
February 1, 2006... * 4.1 'Sustainable Communities': Gateway People, research published by the IPPR, based on a series of focus groups and interviews, finds that shops and local facilities are among the key priorities for East Londoners when considering moving to...

David Hall: 1933-2006.(Obituary)
February 1, 2006... DAVID HALL, expert town planner and campaigner for sustainable development and former Director of the TCPA, died in Devon on 12 January 2006, aged 72. David was educated at Malvern College, and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where...

Roller coaster years.(David Hall--an appreciation)(Town and Contry Planning Association)
February 1, 2006... FOR MORE THAN a quarter of a century, David Hall served as Director of the TCPA, continuing in a long line of leaders of the organisation that has since the Victorian era campaigned for effective planning and humane settlements. Appointed in...

The Crossrail scheme that needs saving from itself.(Planning World)(Column)
February 1, 2006... AT THE RISK of loud teeth gnashing and mass TCPA membership cancellations north of the Watford Gap, it's time to talk Crossrail again. A promise to those possibly apoplectic readers: this concerns you too, because it involves money--your money....

From links to places--the growing importance of streetscape.(Getting Somewhere)(United Kingdom. Road Traffic Reduction Act of 1998, United Kingdom. Department for Transport)
February 1, 2006... FOLLOWING the 1998 Road Traffic Reduction Act, the Department for Transport decided not to set national targets for traffic reduction, partly on the basis that 'tackling congestion and pollution' would be sufficient, and that traffic reduction...

PPS3: housing needs help from its friends.
February 1, 2006... THE DRAFT of the new PPS3--Consultation Paper on a New Planning Policy Statement 3 (PPS3): Housing (1)--made many of its readers anxious, deeply depressed, or both. The new PPS is intended to replace PPG3: Housing and the embellishments...

Housing market assessments and density policies: Pat Willoughby looks at some of the changes proposed in the new draft PPS3 and considers what they might mean for the delivery of sustainable communities.
February 1, 2006... THE CONSULTATION DRAFT of PPS3: Housing, (1) issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in December 2005, sets out 'what is required at regional and local levels to deliver housing within sustainable communities'. As is the norm...

Fine words about flood hazards: although the draft of the new PPS25: Development and Flood Risk appears to have taken on board some key concerns about flood risk, there is still a long way to go before there is a meeting of minds between planners, developers, landowners, ecologists, insurers and the Environment Agency.
February 1, 2006... THE DRAFT OF PPS25: Development and Flood Risk is, along with the draft of PPS3: Housing, the latest of the new-style planning policy statements designed to reflect the expectations of the Government's Planning Green Paper on future planning...

Assessing the emerging SCIs: Kate Brewer and David Alexander look at current practice in the preparation of statements of community involvement in North West England and find that the Government s laudable commitment to community involvement in plan formulation is failing to deliver the mechanisms needed for effective implementation.(community involvement)
February 1, 2006... THE 1947 Town and Country Planning Act was not primarily concerned with the need to involve communities in plan formulation. (1) The law required that local planning authorities publish their plans for public inspection after proposals had been...

Planning authorities enter new waters: charting the recent steps to extend Scottish planning controls over marine fish-farming, Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel find that the regulatory and strategic policy context is now very much more layered and complex than has previously been the case.(planning and the marine environment)
February 1, 2006... THE Planning etc. (Scotland) Bill was published in December 2005. Celebrating a particular facet of Scottishness, the Bill encompasses a number of provisions relating to marine fish-farming. Specifically, the definition of development is...

Seachanges, consolidation and the rise of the McMansion: in Australia, 'urban consolidation'--promoting more dense, compact forms of development--might be the planning vogue, but there is considerable resistance to the way in which it is being implemented.(urban development)
February 1, 2006... Don't want to live in the city My friends tell me I'm changing The smell of salty air is what I'm chasing... I don't know why I'm going through a seachange I'm reaching out to the sky for a seachange. (1) IN THE LATE...

A windmill on my windowsill.(Going Local)(nuclear power generation)
February 1, 2006... I USED MY last column to shake my fists at the sky--or at the BBC anyway--about just how widespread the assumptions are in UK debate that central solutions are more effective than local ones. The same is infuriatingly true in what passes for...

Cities and urban areas in the new European cohesion policy.(The Euro-Files)
February 1, 2006... OVER THE past year, a number of documents have emerged at the European level that have reflected upon the issues facing urban areas in Europe and the role that cities can play in contributing to driving forward the EU's renewed commitment to...