Town and Country Planning articles from November 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from November 2004

25 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
November 1, 2004... I STILL believe that we need an elected regional body that might in time gradually absord some of the functions of appointed ad hoc bodies, and indeed have devolved to them powers at present exercised by the regional offices of government...

10 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
November 1, 2004... THE global environmental threat contained in the aggregated aspirations of the transport policies of al the world's nations is catastropic. The politicianss know this. They have been told it often. It is their constituents, they say, who are...

5 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
November 1, 2004... A NEW emphasis on sustainable development and participation will require planners to learn many new skills. However, it will also place planners at the centre of a new movement which reflects all our aspirations for our communities and our...

Context: news digest, October 2004.
November 1, 2004... * 4.10 Energy policy: The Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King tells the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers that ministers will have to take a decision within five years on whether to...

0ne-to-one learning: 'Sustainable Communities--The Skills to Deliver' TCPA short course, London, 13-14 October 2004.(Inside Stories)
November 1, 2004... EVER FANCIED a one-to-one with the man whose passion made Birmingham the place it is today? Does it puzzle you that 'delivering sustainable communities' takes up so many column-inches in the press? Are you frustrated with the current fashion...

Ralph Rookwood-an appreciation.
November 1, 2004... RALPH ROOKWOOD was laid to rest in a quiet corner of Oxfordshire on a sunny autumn afternoon. The parish church of All Saints, Middleton Stoney was packed with family and friends to celebrate the life of a well-loved man. Grandchildren had...

Avoiding litigation.(People & Ideas)
November 1, 2004... ANYONE who watches out for new small local initiatives in any social field learns that the standard objection to doing anything revolves around the fear that some mishap will result in a ruinous compensation claim that the instigators cannot...

China's superheated regional economy.(Planning World)
November 1, 2004... A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I was on a motorway connecting two of the major cities in one of the world's great mega-city-regions. They were widening it to cope with an explosion in traffic caused by rising car ownership. For widening, of course,...

Smarter choices--why soft options may be the best alternative.(Getting Somewhere)
November 1, 2004... ON 20 JULY 2004, the Government published a new White Paper on The Future of Transport. (1) On the same day, three supporting documents were issued. The first was the road pricing feasibility study. (2) The second was the review of Crossrail....

Guardian of the east.(Off the Fence)
November 1, 2004... IT WAS NOT a pretty sight, to see a trusty friend showing signs of dizziness, confusion, and acute amnesia. In fact it was a real shock, and caused initial distress followed by a sense of frustration. The Guardian had made a mess of a planning...

Making sense of sustainable communities.(sustainable places)
November 1, 2004... Although its commitment to the development of 'sustainable communities' is commendable, the Government's ideas about what constitutes a sustainable community' remain rather fuzzy, say Phil Allmendinger and Steve Tiesdell, who argue that the...

New numbers, changing assumptions: Alan Holmans looks at the upward revision in the projected increase in households found in the interim household projections recently issued by the ODPM.(household projections)
November 1, 2004... THE OFFICE of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has issued new projections of households for England in total and for the regions from 2001 to 2021. They are summarised in the table below, in which figures from the 1996-based household...

Managing future flood risk: Mark Southgate looks at the background to the current review of flood-risk management policy.(planning and flooding)
November 1, 2004... FLOODING is in the news! Few of those people who saw the dramatic television pictures of the floods in Boscastle, Cornwall in August could fail to be awed by the force of nature that they saw on their screens. In the immediate days after the...

Mainstreaming equality into planning.(equality and planning)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... Dory Reeves looks at how the sustainability appraisal process is being used by the Greater London Authority to begin to embed equality issues into the planning policy-making process--and at how future plans could be made more sensitive to...

Sustainable shelter: sustainable communities go hand-in-hand with sustainable shelter, says John Zetter, who looks for a framework in which to discuss the provision of housing from a sustainable development perspective.(sustainable housing)
November 1, 2004... ESTABLISHING the co-ordinates for a discussion on the provision of shelter from a sustainable development perspective is no mean task: the concept of sustainable development is so all-embracing. It is not an add-on to existing policy aims, but...

Thinking globally, eating locally: a recent study has demonstrated that localised food supply chains can make a significant--and self-sustaining--contribution to the search for sustainable means of production and consumption, as Gill Seyfang and Beth Brockett explain.(sustainable consumption)
November 1, 2004... THE NEED FOR sustainable consumption and production is sparking a renewed interest in (re)-localised food supply chains among academics, policy-makers, and community activists, but there is little empirical evidence to support policy...

Smoking in public places: Peter Jones, Andrew Geens, David Hillier, and Daphne Comfort examine some of the arguments for and against a ban on smoking in public places and outline some policy alternatives.(public health)
November 1, 2004... IN JULY 2004 the South East England Regional Assembly became the first regional planning body to call on local authorities to hasten preparations to ban smoking in public places. The Public Health White Paper published in November 2004 proposed...

Residential havens? Bill Smith-Bowers questions the widely held view that gated communities are symptoms of and contributors to social division and exclusion and suggests that, extended across social classes, they may have a role to play in promoting sustainability.(gated communities)
November 1, 2004... IN RECENT YEARS there has been a considerable growth of interest in the emergence of 'residential havens', 'gated communities', 'fortified enclaves', and other forms of privatised public space. Urban sociologists and anthropologists have...

Climate change climbs the political agenda.(Future Work)
November 1, 2004... TWO SPEECHES on consecutive days in September by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on climate change is more than coincidence--it's a sign that the subject is finally being taken seriously by politicians. For years what...

Can LVT be made to work?
November 1, 2004... Land Value Taxation in Britain: Experience and Opportunities Edited by Owen Connellan Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2004, ISBN 1-55844-157-3, PB, 216pp., $20.00 LAND VALUE TAXATION (LVT) is back on the agenda again,...

An ideal Christmas present.
November 1, 2004... Country Diary Drawings: 36 Drawings by Clifford Harper Agraphia Press, 78a Crofton Road, Camberwell, London SE5 8NA. W:http://www.agraphia.uk.com ISBN 1 904596 00 2, PB, 44pp. + ix, 235 x 168 mm, 10 [pounds sterling] READERS of this...