Town and Country Planning articles from May 2006

Town and Country Planning archives from May 2006

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2006... UNLESS this pessimism can be dispelled, London's citizens and institutions will remain unwilling to commit either themselves or their money to the metropolis. We may not be able to predict the future, but we can and must plan ahead. London has...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2006... PASSING responsibility for developing sustainable transport policy to local authorities may--despite any suspect Government motivation--be no bad thing. It is at the local level that transport measures can be most effective, with local...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
May 1, 2006... THERE is a pressing need to link the prosperity of city centres to the surrounding areas of impoverished households. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Northern conurbations. Despite the welcome recent city-centre developments, go half a mile...

Context: news digest, April 2006.(United Kingdom. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's urban planning)
May 1, 2006... * 3.4 Planning: ODPM Minister Baroness Andrews urges local authorities to appoint a councillor or officer to act as a community planning champion, to help individuals and groups engage with the planning process. ...

TCPA issues Housing Market Renewal policy statement.(HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)(Town and Country Planning Association)
May 1, 2006... THE TCPA has called on the Government to spread best practice to help communities overcome the blight of abandoned housing. While the TCPA supports the Government's investment programme aimed at reviving collapsed housing markets in the...

China's new science city.(Planning World)(Mianyang's regional development)
May 1, 2006... YOU'VE almost certainly never heard of Mianyang. Hardly anyone has; you can barely find it even on a good atlas. But that's very much your problem and mine. There's a good reason to find out about it, because it could prove to be one of the...

Positive announcements--but still falling short.(United Kingdom. Housing Corporation's National Affordable Housing Programme )
May 1, 2006... THE ANNOUNCEMENT towards the end of March of the Housing Corporation's National Affordable Housing Programme for 2006-08 contains some important messages about the Government's housing policies and priorities. A total of 3.9 billion [pounds...

Sustainable travel towns and health promotion--encouraging active travel.(United Kingdom. Department for Transport funds Darlington, Peterborough and Worcester )
May 1, 2006... IN 2004, the Department for Transport gave 10 million [pounds sterling] to Darlington, Peterborough and Worcester to become 'sustainable travel demonstration towns' over five years. Their objective is to implement an extensive package of...

Planning and fear of crime.(Off the Fence)(town planning)
May 1, 2006... THERE ARE a handful of aspects of town planning and urban design which make local authority elected committees especially jumpy. One is contaminated land, because it gives rise to the fear that future residents might be deformed or harmed in...

Getting England back on track: the Connecting England report recently published by the TCPA puts forward key recommendations to help the country as a whole reach its full potential, and to help meet development needs and priorities across the regions.(regional development)(Town and Country Planning Association)
May 1, 2006... EARLY IN MAY the TCPA touched a sympathetic nerve that put the Association in the spotlight and produced notable press coverage. Between the publication of the State of the Cities report from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM--now...

Mobile phone masts--and a 'third way' for UK planning? Phil Allmendinger outlines key conclusions from the recently completed review of the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Mast Development, and considers its implications for alternative approaches to the control of sensitive development.(telecommunications and planning)
May 1, 2006... IN AN ERA when virtually all development proposals cause controversy, mobile phone masts seem to generate particular ire. Three Private Members Bills were laid before Parliament in 2004 calling for tighter controls over mobile phone mast...

Everything today is thoroughly modern--or is it? David Boyle returns from the 'Modernism' exhibition currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum fervently hoping it marks the last gasp of a philosophy that 'helped render the previous century inhuman'.(modernism)
May 1, 2006... IT IS NOW over a century since Frederick Winslow Taylor rose from his chair at the United States Hotel in Saratoga in 1903 and read his paper on time and motion that came to dominate so much of the 20th century. His message was the lessons of...

Planners and planning obligations--a consistency in approach? Steven Davey and David Alexander report the findings of a recent survey on the use of planning obligations in the North West and South East of England.(planning oblogations)
May 1, 2006... PLANNING OBLIGATIONS allow local planning authorities (LPAs) to enter into an agreement with a developer to make acceptable a planning application that would otherwise be refused. Such obligations may restrict development and require specific...

Looking over the horizon: a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from UK transport by 2030 possible argue Robin Hickman and David Banister, but only if we can we move beyond our complacent car addiction and take radical and concerted action to bring about behavioural, cultural and consumer change.(transport and global warming)
May 1, 2006... THE GRAVITY of the situation is well understood: global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) are currently (on 2005 measurements) at 381 parts per million (ppm), and rising at 2-3 ppm each year. If we exceed 400-450 ppm...

From farm gate to consumer's plate? Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort and David Hillier examine the principal elements within the Food Industry Sustainability Strategy recently published by Defra, and consider how effective it is likely to be in steering us towards sustainable food production and consumption.(sustainability and food)
May 1, 2006... 'Taking action now will save on what is demanded of us tomorrow, over which we may have less control and for which our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible.' 'The challenge for the captains of the food and drink industry... ...

Standards, codes--and the quest for quality.(Design Matters)
May 1, 2006... HUGE INTEREST currently focuses on the use and utility of design codes, both in the UK and around the world. But codes of one sort or another are nothing new. In the UK, they were arguably first seen following the Great Fire of London in the...

Space--the final frontier?(The Euro-Files)(European Centre for Space Law)
May 1, 2006... A FEW WEEKS AGO, there was an item on the European satellite news channel Euronews about the work of Rene Oosterlinck, Professor of Space Law at the University of Ghent in Belgium. (1) This awakened an interest which, a short internet search...

The magic in giving things a name.(markets)
May 1, 2006... I REMEMBER when we first came up with the phrase 'clone town'. It was in the rather stuffy meeting room we then occupied at the New Economics Foundation, and we were discussing the report Ghost Town Britain we were planning to publish later...