Town and Country Planning articles from June 2001

Town and Country Planning archives from June 2001

Skeletal framework begs agency question.
June 1, 2001... Peter Hall looks at Towards the London Plan: Initial Proposals for the Mayor's Spatial Development Strategy and its framework of four sub-regional growth corridors and finds that the key question raised is one of agency First, a...

Wanted -- a radical lead for country planning.
June 1, 2001... We need a fundamentally new basis on which to plan the use of the countryside, recognising the potential of nature as a whole to give meaning to peoples' lives and so create a new landscape To plan at all there must be something to plan....

You never saw a farmer on a bike ...
June 1, 2001... Colin Ward on the shifting terms of the rural debate, and on a nettle that few are willing to grasp One of George Orwell's memorable comments was that Stalin's Russia was like the family that all slept in one bed: `When Father turns, we...

Shanqri-La of the North?
June 1, 2001... Peter Hall finds that even in one of Europe's most affluent capitals there is work for planners to do Iceland certainly isn't like any other place you ever saw -- certainly any place in Europe. (The brilliant new black comedy film 101...

The car-sharing business.
June 1, 2001... Martin Stott on the economic obstacles facing anyone wanting to set up a car-sharing club The car-sharing club is still a new phenomenon in Britain, and the collapse in March of the country's largest -- the scheme operated by Budget in...

Dear Secretary of State ...
June 1, 2001... David Lock on measures that the new Government should take to reinvigorate the planning system Now that we know the Identity of the new Secretary of State (or, rather, the identities of the new Secretaries of State) what does the planning...

Rail subsidy -- an environmental good?
June 1, 2001... Much of the Government's transport policy effort is focused on rail travel, with rail being trumpeted as a more environmentally friendly alternative to the car. But can rail subsidy be justified as a `green' measure? The pros and cons are...

Back to the all-powerful centralised state? Or a blow for democracy?
June 1, 2001... Stephen Crow looks at the Law Lords' landmark judgement on the test cases concerning the Human Rights Act and the Secretary of State's powers to make planning decisions The Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted with the intention of giving (to...

Planning for sustainability -- new orthodoxy or radical challenge?
June 1, 2001... Planning has been in the vanguard of attempts to embrace sustainable development and translate the concept into real outcomes `on the ground', but has its radical challenge been tamed and absorbed into the status quo? Susan Owens and Richard...

The realities revealed by foot and mouth.
June 1, 2001... The way that the outbreak of foot and mouth disease rapidly developed from a livestock problem into a wider crisis in the rural economy has major implications for agricultural and rural development policy. Philip Lowe, Sandra Edwards, and Neil...

Diversification against the grain.
June 1, 2001... Joan Thirsk, author of the classic text Alternative Agriculture: A History, offers a historian's view on ways out of the current agricultural crisis, and looks for a future in which a wide variety of bottom-up and pioneering enterprises receive...

Sustainable brownfield re-use -- who should be involved, and what should they be doing?
June 1, 2001... Carol Dair and Katie Williams explain how a research project now under way aims to cut through the rhetoric on land re-use and get to the heart of what it really means to develop brownfield sites in a sustainable way Achieving the...

Flood news from the insurance front line.
June 1, 2001... The April 2001 issue of Town & Country Planning carried a number of articles on planning for flood hazard areas, several of which speculated on the insurance implications on the apparently increasing incidence of catastrophic flooding. David...

Urban communes learn to co-operate.
June 1, 2001... Ian Scargill explains how the planning of French towns and cities may benefit from recently introduced legislation that appears to be bringing about inter-communal co-operation One of the greatest barriers to the coherent planning of French...

A Scottish lead in managing flood risk.
June 1, 2001... David Crichton offers an insurance view of planning and flood hazard issues in Scotland The UK flood risk is increasing owing to sea level rise, lack of sufficient investment in sea defences,(1) changes in farming practices, and continued...

Linking it up in the West Country.
June 1, 2001... David Boyle on a regional link-up of local currencies in and around Somerset Local currencies sometimes seem like a neat idea that came from nowhere during the recession in the early 1990s -- filling the pages of magazines like Country...

Unused policy seeks occupier.
June 1, 2001... Simon Fairlie on the unrealised potential of an unloved policy instrument Hands up who knows what PPG5 is. If you answered, correctly, that it is the planning policy guidance on simplified planning zones (SPZs), very impressive; but when...

From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World.
June 1, 2001... From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World Written and edited by Ian Christie and Diane Warburton for The Real World Coalition Earthscan Publications, London, 2001, ISBN 1 85383 735 0, PB, 223pp. + xvi, index 8.95 [pounds sterling]...

Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945.
June 1, 2001... The tables or the children? Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945 By Dennis Hardy E & FN Spon, London, ISBN 0-419-24670-3, PB, 305pp. + ix, index, 22.99 [pounds sterling] (ISBN 0-419-246660-6, HB) When A.S. Neill, the...

CONNECTIONS.
June 1, 2001... Land grab With agriculture once again under the spotlight as a result of the foot and mouth outbreak, there is a growing consensus that the concentration on intensive production will have to change and that the whole role of farming needs...

BACK LOG.
June 1, 2001... Fifty years ago We dislike `nattering' at city housing authorities for doing what they almost must under almost hopeless conditions. We wish they would shout a bit louder for the sort of regional planning that alone can make decent housing...