Town and Country Planning articles from May 2005

Town and Country Planning archives from May 2005

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2005... REGIONAL planning makes sense whatever the ideological viewpoint, but it still has to overcome massive political hurdles. For what government will wish to see its position weakened by entrenched opposition in certain regions? The immediate...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2005... REGIONAL planning is fighting its way back, but we will never get anywhere near the elegance and the surety of the French model until we can achieve a programmation of our public expenditure and simultaneously use this as a basis to indicate to...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2005... DEVOLVED administrations can potentially make a difference to local social and economic renewal, but these 'little victories' cannot be secured and sustained in the face of a debilitating micro-climate. To suggest otherwise is a dangerous...

Context: news digest, April 2004.
May 1, 2005... * 1.4 Planning: The ODPM publishes an interim advice note on Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Spatial Strategies and Local Development Frameworks. www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/ odpm_planning/documents/page/ odpm_plan_037013.pdf ...

Inadequate numbers and a lack of links.(HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
May 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...

Cross-boundary failings dog RSS.(Inside Stories)
May 1, 2005... * East of England Plan. Draft Revision to the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for the East of England. East of England Regional Assembly, Bury St Edmunds, Dec. 2004 The TCPA Response THE DRAFT East of England Plan, published by the...

Towards a national strategy.(A VISION FOR ENGLAND'S FUTURE)
May 1, 2005... The TCPA is conducting a national inquiry, led by an independent Commission, into the disparities of growth across England's regions and the measures needed to tackle national development priorities IF YOU TAKE a map of the British Isles...

Getting around town.(People & Ideas)
May 1, 2005... APART FROM that splendid tribe of dedicated cyclists, those Londoners who are too sensible to be motorists tend to be divided between those who have mastered the complexities of bus routes, and those who have absorbed every detail of the...

Shaking off past horrors in Russia's Hero City.(Planning World)
May 1, 2005... GOING FOR a city break in St Petersburg, and finding you were there on 9 May 2005, might be regarded as a catastrophic piece of bad planning or as an inspired accident. Or, maybe, some of both. For this of course was the 60th anniversary of...

Sustainable travel towns show traffic reduction potential.(Getting Somewhere)
May 1, 2005... BACK IN APRIL 2004, Darlington, Peterborough, and Worcester were announced as winners of the Department for Transport's 'Sustainable Travel Towns' competition. Jointly, they were allocated 10 million [pounds sterling] over five years to become...

Nuclear power--a planning matter.(Off the Fence)
May 1, 2005... I'VE HEARD IT SAID that there is a big pile of slate in North Wales which was put in place to make the redundant core of a demolished nuclear power station look like a mountain. Also that the core will need to be supervised and protected for a...

Evolving advice on sustainability appraisal: Joan Bennett, David Counsell, and David Feeney look at the evolving advice on sustainability appraisal and some of the practical issues that it raises.(sustainability appraisal)
May 1, 2005... IN THE LAST couple of years planning authorities have been presented with a plethora of government advice on sustainability appraisal. The drivers behind the new advice have been the planning reforms in England and Wales and the European...

Narrow thinking on mixed communities: the Government's thinking on household size and any correlation with dwelling size and type--demonstrated in the recent Planning for Mixed Communities consultation document--is misguided and too narrow in its focus.(planning and housing)
May 1, 2005... IS IT JUST ME, or is anyone else confused by the distinctions made in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's consultation paper Planning for Mixed Communities, (1) issued in January? We are told that the proposed revisions to PPG3: Housing...

Community involvement in housing market renewal--the first two years: the housing market renewal initiative--which aims to radically alter local housing markets in the North and West Midlands through intensive local level interventions, including programmes of mass clearance--will not succeed unless it is accompanied by an equally intensive programme of resident engagement.(community participation)
May 1, 2005... IT HAS NOW BEEN over two years since the Deputy Prime Minister launched the 'Sustainable Communities Plan', (1) presenting a broad-brush strategy for the nature and extent of future development within the residential housing markets of England...

Sustainable development on display: Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort, and David Hillier look at the efforts of large retailers within the UK to address the impacts they have on the environment, the economy, and society, and to communicate a commitment to sustainability.(consumption and sustainability)
May 1, 2005... 'There is a tension at the heart of modern consumer societies. We want all the things the modern economy offers in terms of variety of products and services available to improve our quality of life, but we do not want the downsides such as...

Putting heart back into the campus in the city: Deborah Peel looks at the changing thinking on the form, use, development, and identity of the real estates of higher education institutions.(higher education and land use)
May 1, 2005... AS MIGHT BE expected, each of the three main political parties declared education to be a key issue in May's general election, with the Labour Government reprising its earlier manifesto mantra of 'education, education, education'. Since 1997,...

Branding places--lessons from the Oresund Region: in the Scandinavian Oresund Region, the cities of Copenhagen and Malmo have joined forces to brand themselves in the New Europe--a model demonstrating the opportunities and weaknesses of place branding.(regional development)
May 1, 2005... ONE OF TODAY'S most often cited examples of 'best practice' in regional development in Europe is the Scandinavian Oresund Region. 'Bridge to the Baltics', 'Medicon Valley', 'Creative Hub'--the Nordic success story has been praised under many...

How to pay for Jamie Oliver.(Going Local)
May 1, 2005... THERE IS something compelling about locally-made honey. I'm not quite sure what it is--except that it is the precise opposite of the polyglot indeterminate sweet mush passed off as honey in most supermarkets. I suppose it is also exciting that...

Who are the NIMBYs?(Planning Participation)
May 1, 2005... PLANNERS HAVE led much of the innovation in public participation for decades, with rights to consultation having been enshrined in mainstream decision-making processes for far longer than in almost any other field. As expected, the latest...

The start of a planning renaissance.(writeback)
May 1, 2005... DAVID LOCK is a great friend of planning. I was therefore disheartened to see his 'wish list' for a post-5 May Government ('After the poll is over') in the April edition of Town & Country Planning. Planning is about getting the right...

Planning--the old-new and the new-new.(Inside America)
May 1, 2005... I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT that one of the nicest things about planners is their optimism that it is possible to make the world a better place for people to live in. No matter how dark the times, planners remain convinced that their historic function...