Town and Country Planning articles from May 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from May 2004

25 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
May 1, 2004... THE POPULATION within the inner areas is not more than a tenth of the whole and still falling. People's tastes are changing--many more seem to like life in small towns or big villages. There will be more growth, the only question being whether...

10 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
May 1, 2004... SINCE SUBURBIA is where most people live, it is surprising that virtually all planning policy is concerned with either urban or rural issues--suburbia receives hardly a mention. Yet it is in terms of the impact upon suburban forms of...

5 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
May 1, 2004... THE planning system has spawned new markets which involve public and private interests, a large degree of uncertainty and high level of profits for the winners. It is unlikely that any government will take the political risk of reintroducing...

Context: news digest, April 2004.
May 1, 2004... * 1.4 Transport: Changes to reduce bureaucracy and red tape for Network Rail's front-line delivery staff are proposed in a joint Department for Transport/Cabinet Office report Making a Difference: Reducing Burdens on Network Rail. ...

Design codes--architectural fundamentalism or efficient planning? 'Masterplans: creating sustainable communities' TCPA conference, London, 30 April 2004.
May 1, 2004... GIVEN THE element of contradiction in the terms 'design', with its associations with innovation, and 'code', with its connotations of rigidity, it was unlikely that everyone at the TCPA's conference on design codes would agree on their role and...

Global villages.(People & Ideas)
May 1, 2004... IN THE VILLAGE where I live there's a famous firm of agricultural engineers, once our biggest employer, which, in the boom decades, would supply, maintain, and repair harvesters, reapers and binders, ploughs, and tractors of every description....

Only in California.(Planning World)
May 1, 2004... RETURNING to any long-time home is always liable to release a flood of nostalgia. But it's more likely, and more powerful a sensation, if that home possesses an almost surreal beauty. Perhaps fortunately for human equilibrium, few places on...

Faster, fairer, and more efficient?(Off the Fence)
May 1, 2004... I READ the press release announcing Royal Assent to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 with a heavy heart. I am told that the Act 'will enable communities to play a more active role in creating better places to live and work, as well...

An end to 'folly and neglect'? Can the Rail Review bring to an end the cycle of folly and neglect that has brought the UK's railway's to crisis point? Stephen Potter suggests that the Thatcherite rail structure and direction up to 1992 could prove fertile ground for improvements.(rail transport)
May 1, 2004... IN 1667, following the disaster of the Dutch raid on Chatham Docks, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary the remarks of Lord Clarendon. When asked if treachery was involved, he replied: 'I could wish we could prove there was anything of that in...

The airline business--and why all the airlines want to be at Heathrow: it is important that field understand the forces and dynamics under which airline businesses are operating.(airports policy)
May 1, 2004... SO FAR, most of the planning-related comments on the Government's White Paper on the future of airports and runways in Britain (1) has concentrated on environmental issues such as land loss, noise, pollution, transport-related issues, and the...

Another step towards a culture change: while the Egan Review has some warts, it is a valuable additional push for changes in the training and development of built environment professionals.(education and skills)
May 1, 2004... 'AN AMBITIOUS VISION to identify and develop the skills needed for prosperous sustainable communities' was how the Office of the Deputy Prme Minister (ODPM) press release introduced the outcome of Sir John Egan's Review of Skills. (1)...

Preparing for the revolution in education and skills.(education and skills)
May 1, 2004... The planning profession is having to adapt--to the Government's drive to 'modernise' planning and to the new agendas of critical thinking about place and space. With a reconfigured profession requiring new knowledge and new skills, Mark...

Integrating environment into education: there is no more important goal for education than that is should help to bring about sustainable environmental change, and an approach to environmental education that integrates hitherto separate disciplinary perspectives is essentials.(education and skills)
May 1, 2004... SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is the greatest challenge faced by society today. The depletion of resources, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution and degradation of environments are widely recognised as threats to future survival of ecosystems....

Saving the planet--an urgent call to arms: we cannot continue to bury our heads in the sand in the face of the reality of climate change and its consequences and implications for policy and individual actions, says Mayer Hillman: everyone will have to face up to their responsibility for climate change and take steps to reduce their burden on the planet.(climate change)
May 1, 2004... OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS, I have drawn Attention--not least in the columns of Town & Country Planning--to the urgent need to substantially reduce our greenhouse gas emissions if the welfare of a significant proportion of the world's present and...

The role of the community strategy: in the second of a short series of articles on new directions in local government, Janice Morphet looks at the growing importance of the community strategy, not least in processes measuring local authority performance and service delivery.(new directions in local government)
May 1, 2004... THE DUTY TO PREPARE a community strategy, placed on each local authority in England and set out in section la of the Local Government Act 2000, attracted little attention before it came into effect, and has not been the subject of much debate...

Sound futures? Peter Jones, David Hillier, Daphne Comfort, and Ben Calvert look at the aims and workings of youth music action zones, as a case study of the role the 'culture industries' within urban economies and in the processes of urban regeneration.(culture and regeneration)
May 1, 2004... THE DEFINITION of the term cultural industries lends itself to 'a variety of approaches' (1) and it is often used interchangeably with the term 'creative industries'. That said, the cultural industries are generally, although certainly not...

More than a make-over? Deborah Peel looks at Scottish Executive policy proposals to combat anti-social behaviour and consider the implications for land use planning.(planning and nuisance behaviour)
May 1, 2004... PUTTING SCOTLAND'S communities first, and improving the quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods, are key priorities of the Scottish Executive. In this context, the recent Partnership Agreement included the commitment to legislate to tackle...

The search for publically acceptable road pricing.
May 1, 2004... Urban Road Pricing: Public and Political Acceptability By Martin J. Whittles Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, ISBN 0 7546 3449 3, HB, 263 pp., 50 [pounds sterling] THE BROAD THEORETICAL BASIS for road pricing is relatively straightforward: road...

What's on.(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... June 15 Light Rail: Getting Back on Track. Conference, London. Details: Waterfront Conference Company, London. T: 020-7787 1212. W: www.thewaterfront.co.uk 16-18 Beginning in Waste Planning. Short Course, Bristol. 525 [pounds...

Planners in conclave.(Inside America)
May 1, 2004... THIS IS the time of year when planners meet to discuss the state of their field and to find out what's new--in short, it's time for the national conference of the American Planning Association. The APA is a large, umbrella organisation that...