Town and Country Planning articles from March 2005

Town and Country Planning archives from March 2005

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
March 1, 2005... WHEN dwellers control the major decisions and are free to make their own contribution to the design, construction or management of their housing, both the process and the environment produced stimulate individual and social well-being. When...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
March 1, 2005... IF work is to be redistributed to rural areas, skills have to be updated, ways have to be found to identify customers and the products they require, marketing techniques have to be devised, and mechanisms have to be develop to ensure that work,...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
March 1, 2005... TODAY the green belt is beginning to be an embarrassment. There are loads of ways of protecting the green belt--for its agricultural value, for its landscape character, for its biodiversity, and even to stop the horror of one little town...

Context: news digest, February 2005.
March 1, 2005... * 1.2 Planning:The ODPM publishes PPS1: Delivering Sustainable Communities, replacing PPG1: General Policies and Principles. PPS1 sets out the overarching policies on the delivery of sustainable development through the planning system. The ODPM...

Long-term action on climate change.(Inside Stories)
March 1, 2005... The charitable purpose of the Town and Country Planning Association is to improve the art and science of town and country planning. It is the only independent organisation concerned with planning and housing covering the UK and is the longest...

Gypsies and travellers--a move in the right direction.(Inside Stories)
March 1, 2005... GYPSY AND TRAVELLER communities should have the same access to decent and appropriate housing as every other citizen. Responding to the draft Circular on planning for gypsies and traveller sites, the TCPA expressed support for its emphasis on:...

Sir Peter Hall given Special Award by the Deputy Prime Minister.
March 1, 2005... PROFESSOR SIR PETER HALL, President of the TCPA, was presented with a Special Award by the Deputy Prime Minister at the 'Delivering Sustainable Communities' Summit in Manchester on 1 February, for outstanding service to delivering sustainable...

Changing development control.(Inside Stories)
March 1, 2005... SETTING THE CONTEXT for its response to the consultation paper on proposed changes to the development control system, the TCPA argued that changes to the planning system should aim to: * simplify the system for all applicants; *...

'Testing' times ahead.
March 1, 2005... Development Plans--the New Test TCPA Local Planning Breakfast Meeting, 12 January 2005, Leeds THE FIRST CPD EVENT of 2005 for me and, at 8.00 am on a January morning in central Leeds, a very early (and cold) start. So was it worth it? The...

Land levy for affordable rural housing.
March 1, 2005... THE TCPA has published the latest in its Tomorrow Series of discussion papers. Putting Land to Work, by Alan Whitehead, MP for Southampton Test, calls for a 'land swap levy' to fund rural affordable housing. A 'land swap levy' would take...

The heart of Norwich.(People & Ideas)
March 1, 2005... HARDLY HAD I sung the praises of the street market in the life of any town in the last issue of T&CP than a lavishly illustrated book turned up that illuminated the theme handsomely, in a much wider context than mine. This is Joyce Dunbar's...

Devil in the local detail.(Planning World)
March 1, 2005... A STRANGE MISSIVE came through the letterbox from our local Conservative Party. It was very glossy and professionally produced, which wasn't unusual. What was odd was that it came from a Conservative member of the local council and it was all...

Local Development Schemes slimmed down.(Off the Fence)
March 1, 2005... I CAN'T TELL YOU the name of the local authority, because I am scared of upsetting them. Although the ODPM refers to us all as 'customers' of the planning system, we can't 'shop around' as the local council holds the monopoly for development...

The European agenda and spatial planning in the UK: guest editors Stefanie Duhr and Vincent Nadin intorduce the special issue on the impact of European spatial development initiatives on the UK with an overview of European and transnational planning initiatives and a look at the more important developments in wider EU policy-making.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... THIS IS A GOOD TIME to review the UK's involvement in European spatial planning. A new Commission under Manuel Barroso has taken up office with an emphasis on stimulating economic growth and employment, while also retaining the commitments to...

The future for Cohesion Policy: Vincent Nadin and Stefanie Duhr look at the proposed changes in the arrangements for the Structural Funds for the programming period beginning in 2007.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... EU CO-FINANCING, particularly through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), has played an important role in stimulating transnational co-operation on spatial planning. On 14 July 2004 the European Commission adopted its proposals on...

INTERREG IIIB--progress with transnational co-operation programmes in the UK: Jon Jordan examines the impact of INTERREG IIIB programmes in the UK.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... INTERREG IIIB PROGRAMMES promote the balanced development of the European territory through transnational co-operation projects on spatial planning. While each programme sets its own specific priorities, they all work in the same broad areas,...

Working on INTERREG IIIB--experiences from British waterways: Glenn Millar explains how the shared experience gained through transnational project work has helped British Waterways in developing improved approaches to the issues it needs to address.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... BRITISH WATERWAYS is a public corporation responsible for the management and development of much of the navigable inland waterway network in Great Britain. Europe's navigable waterway system of canals, rivers, and lakes was originally created...

INTERREG IIIA cross-border co-operation--achievements in the UK and preparations for the next round: Jack O'Connor outlines some of the benefits that the INTERREG IIIA Ireland/Northern Ireland Programme has delivered.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... INTERREG IIIA is one of three strands of the Community's 4.875 billion [euro] INTERREG III initiative. It takes 67 per cent of that budget. Its objective is to counter the barriers to balanced development and integration that borders present,...

Co-operation across the Channel: Steve Samson explains how an INTERREG IIIA programme is addressing the varied needs of the diverse Franco-British cross-border region.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... THE FRANCO-BRITISH cross-border region is now in the third phase of a co-operative INTERREG initiative which began when Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais (NPdC) shared an initial INTERREG I programme from 1990 to 1993. Two parallel INTERREG II...

INTERREG IIIC--an inter-regional co-operation opportunity for UK planners: Liz Mills looks at the experience of UK partners in INTERREG IIIC projects.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... IT IS TEMPTING to start this article with a postscript to Lee Shostak's letter from Ebenezer Howard to the Deputy Prime Minister in the January 2005 issue of T&CP: (1) 'Thanks for the kind words in your December article. (2) You mentioned...

Taking forward the spatial visions: Stefanie Duhr, Vincent Nadin, and Stuart Farthing examine the emergence, development, and possible future roles of the transnational spatial visions prepared under the INTERREG Community Initiative.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... THE TRANSNATIONAL spatial vision is a new form of planning instrument arising largely from increased transnational co-operation on spatial planning in Europe. It follows on from numerous co-operation agreements among European countries that...

ESPON--past, present, and future: Simin Davoudi examines the aims, impact, and potential of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network, the EU-sponsored network of institutions researching aspects of European spatial planning.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... OFFICIALLY SPEAKING, the European Union (EU) has no competency in spatial planning, yet its influence on the planning policies of member states has been increasing, particularly after publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective...

Polycentic development--the key to regional competitiveness and cohesion? Ivan Turok looks at how the idea of polycentricity--one of the cornerstones of the European Spatial Development Perspective--has influenced the Scottish planning community, and at its relevance to the National Planning Framework for Scotland.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... POLYCENTRIC urban development is one of the cornerstones of the ESDP. The concept is portrayed as a way of simultaneously enhancing regional competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and balanced development ('cohesion' in EU parlance). In...

Transport, economic development, and spatial planning from an EU perspective: Dominic Stead looks at recent EU developments concerning both the decoupling of transport growth and economic growth and the introduction of sustainable urban transport plans, and considers their implications for spatial planning.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... TWO RELATIVELY new concepts from recent European policy documents are examined in this article: the decoupling of transport growth and economic growth, and sustainable urban transport plans. Both have potentially important implications for land...

The thematic strategy on the urban environment--will it make a difference? Rob Atkinson and Liz Mills outline the latest steps in the development of a strategy for the urban environment at EU level.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... UK PRACTITIONERS need to be aware of current work to produce an EU-level strategy for the urban environment, not least because it may result in EU Directives placing new obligations for plan-making and environmental management on local...

Tracing the influence of the ESDP on planning in the UK: Olivier Sykes and David Shaw look at the influence that the ESDP has had on spatial planning in the various parts of the UK.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... In all parts of the British Isles there are signs of a shift in planning culture away from the narrowly defined approach of land use planning and management, towards a more spatial planning approach IN A RECENT STUDY of the role of...

Putting it all together: Adrian Healy looks at how the various initiatives developing European spatial planning in pratice fit together with planning activities in the UK.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... IF THE PUBLICATION of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) marked its birth, albeit after a very long gestation, then European spatial planning is coming up for its sixth birthday. It has moved out of its infancy, taken its first...

Territorial cohesion and the UK presidency: Vincent Nadin and Stefanie Duhr consider the implications of the territorial cohesion as the UK prepares to take on the Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2005.(special issue: european spatial planning)
March 1, 2005... A CONTINUING stumbling block to getting spatial planning onto the EU agendas has been the question of competence; the extent to which the Community and the Commission can lead spatial planning has always been ambiguous. Whether and to what...