Town and Country Planning articles from November 2005

Town and Country Planning archives from November 2005

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
November 1, 2005... IT IS crushing for the new towns movement to see the debate focus on making a new town 'normal', and this was never the intention. In the same way that extraordinary powers of land acquisition, development and planning were taken to make the...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
November 1, 2005... WE SHOULD study older models of sustainable development, such as the British new towns and the Swedish satellite towns of the 1950s and 1960s, to discover what lessons they can still teach us, both positively and negatively. We should be...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
November 1, 2005... PROTESTS like the fuel tax demonstrations can force issues into the public eye. But the longer-term underlying issue is about how we can find ways to reconnect people, politics, and government in a positive way. In practice it seems that the...

Securing a sustainable future for the East of England.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
November 1, 2005... THE DRAFT EAST OF ENGLAND Plan, which will determine housing growth, jobs and transport strategies for the region to the year 2021, lacks sufficient vision to prevent sprawl that could damage the environment and put unacceptable pressure on...

TCPA MP3s party conference fringe event speeches.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
November 1, 2005... THE TCPA has made available speeches from 23 high-profile speakers at TCPA fringe events at each of the three main party conferences held at the end of September and in early October. The speeches can be heard online or downloaded without...

Planning to combat climate change.
November 1, 2005... THE CLIMATE is changing. There is growing scientific consensus not only that changes are happening but that they will intensify. The consequences of climate change are are likely to include greater flood risk and more extreme weather...

Tomorrow Series becomes the T&CP Tomorrow Series.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
November 1, 2005... THE TCPA has relaunched its Tomorrow Series of discussion papers in a new format. Previously available free on request to TCPA members, Tomorrow Series papers will now be given a wider dissemination by publishing them as additions to Town &...

Fundamental questions for the ESDP.(Planning World)(European Spatial Development Perspective)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2005... LORD PALMERSTON famously said of the Schleswig-Holstein question, a great 19th-century issue in European history, that only three people had ever understood it: one was dead, a second had gone insane, and he was the third--but he'd forgotten...

Money, design and competitions.(Off the Fence)(Port Adelaide, Australia)(City overview)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2005... I'M IN Adelaide as I write, and, aside from paying brief respects at the statue of its planner, Colonel Light, I am drawn again to the city's Port. This is a rough and ready former dockland, with a protected heritage core, shops made derelict...

Stop-go policy.(Trading Places)(curtailing automobile use)
November 1, 2005... ONE OF THE main goals in retail planning has been to reduce the amount of private car travel for shopping and leisure purposes. Policies towards this end include restricting developments which 'encourage' car use; concentrating development in...

Going European with sustainable communities: the Government's enthusiasm for European solutions on urban policy--demonstrated in recent speeches by the Deputy Prime Minister--is welcome, says Liz Mills, but to make the most of the opportunity this presents we need to make more effective use of the EU 'system' and build upon previous work, especially the efforts of local authorities across Europe committed to urban sustainability.(european urban policy)
November 1, 2005... ON 10 SEPTEMBER 2005, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott made a wide-ranging speech to the International Congress of the Council of European Urbanism in Berlin) In it he set out his vision of sustainable communities as places that "balance the...

Healthy, wealthy and wise: putting the environment at the heart of development is the healthy, wealthy and wise choice in creating sustainable communities.(sustainable communities)
November 1, 2005... CURRENT GROWTH and regeneration programmes are presenting us with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build sustainable communities. In our attempts to do so, it is vital that we put the environment at the heart of development. A healthy...

More lessons from the parish plans programme; Felicity Sylvester explains how work carried out in the South West under a Countryside Agency national parish plans pilot scheme has demonstrated that parish planning can have a real impact and add value to local development frameworks.(community participation)
November 1, 2005... THE ARTICLE on parish plans by Catherine Hughes in a recent edition of Town & Country Planning (1) concluded that 'Parish plans can offer an increased chance of local acceptance, or even ownership, of planning decisions and an increased sense...

Why is new housing both so necessary and so unpopular? Drawing on the findings of her independent Review of Housing Supply, Kate Barker revisits the case for increasing the supply of new housing and reflects on some of the controversies surrounding the Review's conclusions.(housing need and demand)
November 1, 2005... 'More and more public money is going into subsidising, housing, yet homelessness is increasing, poor housing conditions remain a major problem, and housing is becoming more expensive...' (1) 'New construction has plummeted and housing...

Iconic art in small-scale waterfront regeneration: Deborah Peel and Greg Lloyd look for lessons in a case study of small-scale waterfront regeneration.(regeneration)
November 1, 2005... THE REDEVELOPMENT and regeneration of derelict or decaying waterfront sites, particularly those located within inner urban boundaries, became established as part of public policy during the property boom of the 1980s. (1) This policy focus...

Back to the future--reviving market halls and covered markets.(planning for retail)
November 1, 2005... Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort and David Hillier explore the reasons for the decline of covered markets and market halls and present a case study of plans for the redevelopment of Chester Market Hall as an illustration of how local authorities are...

Promoting economic development through policy decentralisation in Japan: Ivan Turok looks at Japan's initial attempts to address the country's economic woes and widening regional disparities by decentralising and encouraging localities and regions to develop self-sustaining growth and economic development strategies.(regional development in Japan)
November 1, 2005... JAPAN'S POST-WAR economic miracle ran out of steam in the early 1990s. The Japanese Government has since been struggling to find the key to bring about a resurgence in output and jobs. The emphasis over the last decade has been on top-down,...

Writeback.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2005... JANICE MORPHET'S excellent review of the mushrooming growth of sub-regional partnerships in 'The rise of the sub-region' (Town & Country Planning, Sept. 2005) rightly draws attention to the issues of how sub-regional plans are to be delivered...

Any colour you like, as long as it's white.(Going Local)(local enterprises versus monopolies)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2005... PARTY CONFERENCE fringe meetings are fascinating experiences, and for the speakers they are almost the only taste one ever gets these days--except at election time--of good old public meetings. They are more polite, of course, but you still...

A tale of two cities.(Design Matters)(Shanghai, China)
November 1, 2005... THE URBANISATION of China is regularly discussed in these pages, not least because the challenges and opportunities faced every day by planners there make our own planning preoccupations look very small indeed. But dig deeper, beyond the rows...

Waves of change, torrents of policies.(housing policy)
November 1, 2005... In the early period of the millennium to 2002, mounting evidence pointed to the necessity for a step-change in government policy for the housing market. Urgent actions were required to address existing and predicted shortages of housing, the...

Intervention, asset, profit and investment outcomes.(government role in development)
November 1, 2005... Gains from land-holding often arise from public actions--not just planning, but also infrastructure provision and regeneration strategies. Such outcomes are not unique to the housing and land planning field, and in closely related areas of...

Coherent, strategic exploitation of the market for social purposes.(affordable housing)
November 1, 2005... I recent years English Partnerships (FP) has been given a greater role in providing land, and in facilitating and enabling the necessary infrastructure and development to provide homes affordable to relatively modest- and low-income households....

From policy to delivery.(sustainable community planning)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... UK city and area renewal policy is, by international standards, sophisticated (albeit complex). But there are still significant gaps in thinking and policy. Experience is teaching us that national strategies and policies arising from the...

Appendix--English Partnerships case studies.
November 1, 2005... West Bedford Bedford lies within the Milton Keynes and South Midlands growth area, where the sub-regional strategy sets out an ambitious policy for 19,500 new homes by 2021. Sufficient housing and employment land have been identified in...

Postscript.(importance of infrastructure)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2005... This Tomorrow Series paper addresses the crucial issue of infrastructure delivery, without which large-scale growth and regeneration are doomed to disappoint, or more probably fail to happen at all. The perception cited in the findings of...