Town and Country Planning articles from June 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from June 2004

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
June 1, 2004... THE Community Land Scheme's days are surely numbered.... But the achievements of the Land Authority for Wales have not gone unnoticed. Setting up similar agencies on a regional basis in England and Scotland would would retain a source of income...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
June 1, 2004... IF TRAVEL COSTS remain low, higher densities and more integrated land uses are unlikely to make people travel less and traffic restraint policies in city centres may lead to pressures for even greater dispersal of land uses and even more...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
June 1, 2004... AN UNDERSTANDING of the modern relationship between homes and jobs is central to the question of the constraints that job locations may place on urban compaction. If it is found that the geography of job change remains determinedly...

Context: news digest, May 2004.
June 1, 2004... * 4.5 Housing: Figures published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister show a 99 per cent reduction in the number of families with children living in a bed and breakfast hotel for more than six weeks compared with two years ago. ...

Funding sustainable communities: supplements, tax and development: funding sustainable communities TCPA Symposium, London, 11 May 2004.
June 1, 2004... THERE IS GROWING PRESSURE for local planning authorities to deliver an increased amount of housing that is both affordable and sustainable. With the current supply of housing restricted, land values, as well as the cost of housing, have risen...

Playground aspirations.(People & Ideas)
June 1, 2004... OVER 40 YEARS AGO, a number of enthusiasts, including Marjorie Allen of Hurtwood and Joe Benjamin of north London, were tirelessly advocating a different approach to places for children's play from the standard provision of swings, see-saws,...

I have seen the future.(Planning World)
June 1, 2004... THE AMERICAN journalist Lincoln Steffens went on a visit to the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, and famously returned with the aphorism: 'I have seen the future, and it works.' Well it didn't, of course. But I've just been back for my second...

One size does not fit all.(Off the Fence)
June 1, 2004... THERE IS GREAT COMFORT for the TCPA in the latest research from the centennial Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). In partnership with the South East Regional Assembly (SEERA), Cambridge Futures was commissioned to find out what people really...

Spatial capacity-building? Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel look at the National Planning Framework recently issued by the Scottish Executive and consider its implications in a modern Scotland.(planning in Scotland)
June 1, 2004... IN APRIL 2004, hot on the heels of the Welsh Assembly Government and the publication of its Wales Spatial Plan, (1) the Scottish Executive published its long-awaited National Planning Framework. The idea of a National Planning Framework (NPF)...

New light on country life: James Shorten reports on recent research for the Countryside Agency which indicates that simplistic policy assumptions about rural settlement hierarchy fall far short of the reality of the behaviour of rural residents, and that consequently a step-change in rural settlement planning is needed.(rural settlement strategy)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2004... I CAN'T BE the only planner who has harboured nagging doubts about how, over recent decades, we have been planning for rural towns and villages. Looking back, although the terms used to describe the policies and principles of settlement...

Key rural services and planning: Mark Cassidy and David Alexander examine the effectiveness of current development plan policies in safeguarding the future of the rural shop, the post office, and the public house.(rural planning)
June 1, 2004... FOLLOWING COVERAGE of this issue in Town & Country Planning last year, (1) recent research carried out with local planning authorities (LPAs) across England has assessed the effectiveness of current development plan policies in safeguarding the...

Putting accessibility policy appraisal into practice: John Farrington, Jon Shaw, Tim Richardson, Margaret Maclean, Gillian Bristow, Derek Halden and Matthew Leedal report on the development of an evidence-based appraisal tool for practitioners and academics concerned with rural accessibility issues.(rural accessibility)
June 1, 2004... ACCESSIBILITY--the degree to which people can engage with services and activities which may be thought of as normal for the society in which they live--has become a central policy issue in the United Kingdom, and is now incorporated as an...

Rural retreats: Ray Green looks at two forms of rural retreat--that of the countryside in the face of continuing metropolitan expansion; and the retreat into the remaining country towns and villages by people apparently escaping the stresses and strains of life in the major cities and in the declining old industrial communities.(counterurbanisation)
June 1, 2004... THE PAST HALF CENTURY has seen many small towns and villages subsumed into the metropolitan regions, while in the rural regions hundreds of towns and villages have become home to newcomers and a whole rural way of life has been changed. ...

Tackling anti-social behaviour: Colin C. Williams questions whether the current 'big stick' approach to addressing anti-social public behaviour needs complementing with rewards for good behaviour.(nuisance behaviour)
June 1, 2004... ACCORDING TO the 2003 British Crime Survey, nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of people reported a high level of disorder in their local area and one in three cited teenagers 'hanging around' on streets as a big problem. The one-day count of...