Town and Country Planning articles from July 2001

Town and Country Planning archives from July 2001

A programme for sustainable communities -- a social, environmental, and economic agenda for the new Parliament.
July 1, 2001... In the wake of the general election, the TCPA puts forward an agenda for action for the Labour Government's second term The state of the nation demands delivery of sustainable forms of development. The commitments have been made...

Trailing cities.
July 1, 2001... Colin Ward on town trails and urban walks We abandoned Sunday papers years ago, repelled by the sheer weight of unread material we had to trundle to the recycling bin. All the same, I had to get the Observer on 20 May for the sake of its...

Going further with cycling.
July 1, 2001... Sally Cairns on some successful attempts to promote cycling June is a good month for cycling -- this year it saw `Green Transport Week' (9-17), a national festival of cycling (16-24) and `Bike2Work Day' (20),(1) with support from campaigns...

Finance and the philosopher's stone.
July 1, 2001... Peter Hall on public services and private finance So Tony Blair is going to lead a campaign to give us great public services. Who could fail to lift a glass to that toast? But there is a deep mystery about how exactly he is going to achieve...

Blinkered vision for the future of London.
July 1, 2001... The London Mayor's initial proposals paper on his Spatial Development Strategy displays a deplorable error of judgement in its failure to address the crucial issue of climate change and its implications Mayor Ken Livingstone's foreword to...

Joining up is hard to do.
July 1, 2001... Wherever government responsibility for the environment may lie after the departmental re-organisation, the local leadership role remains crucial Among the speculation on Tony Blair's motivations in the post-general election government...

Planning after Macpherson.
July 1, 2001... Huw Thomas looks at the new general duty on public authorities to promote racial equality, and at some implications for planning When the Macpherson Report into the Metropolitan Police inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence(1) was...

Fireworks, chemicals, and risks.
July 1, 2001... With new and `in-built' risks of modern life increasingly coming under scrutiny and being challenged, Gordon Walker examines land use planning's role in securing public safety Questions of public safety are proving to be some of the most...

Positive planning for nature.
July 1, 2001... Britain's fragmented wildlife landscape is best served by treating habitats as a congregation of sites with a functional relationship to each other, says John Boothby, who looks at Cheshire County Council's novel approach to using the planning...

Sustainability, biodiversity, and land use planning.
July 1, 2001... John Box, Veronica Cossons, and Jan McKelvey explain how Telford's extensive, multi-functional `Green Network' of inter-linked open spaces within the urban area can aid the search for sustainable patterns of development Telford lies some...

Urban biosphere reserves -- re-integrating people with the natural environment.
July 1, 2001... The concept of the `biosphere reserve', promoted under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, deserves to be more widely implemented, says Pete Frost, and in the UK its potential would best be realised if reserves included urban or urban...

Greening the economy, one trade at a time.
July 1, 2001... Gill Seyfang presents findings from case study research to evaluate the specifically `green' impacts of a typical local exchange and trading scheme In New Zealand they're called `green dollars', but in the UK we know them best as LETS...

CCTV and town centre regeneration.
July 1, 2001... Harry Ballantyne, Dominic Medway and Peter Jones report the findings of a study into the perceived effectiveness of CCTV and its significance for urban regeneration among key town centre stakeholders Regenerating town and city centres means...

Setting the direction for EU environmental policy.
July 1, 2001... Adrian Colwell on the EU Sixth Environmental Action Programme measures adopted by the Environment Council of Ministers Meeting in Stockholm on 12 June, the EU Environment Council unanimously adopted a common position on the Sixth...

Scottish land reform -- action under way.
July 1, 2001... Greg Lloyd and Mike Danson examine the progress towards land reform in Scotland embodied in the proposals in the draft Land reform Bill The present land tenurial position in Scotland is, essentially, an anachronism in the modern world,...

Learning from the supermarkets of Buenos Aires.
July 1, 2001... David Boyle on the Global Barter Network, centred on Buenos Aires One of the most controversial debates about the euro is those unpredictable consequences of tying every city in Europe to the same interest rate. We don't quite know...

Environmental justice and planning.
July 1, 2001... Mike Teitz on the emergence and development of the idea of `environmental justice' within the USA During my recent visit to the UK, I was struck by a headline suggesting that the newly re-elected Labour Government was planning to introduce...