Town and Country Planning articles from October 2004

Town and Country Planning archives from October 2004

25 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
October 1, 2004... THE demise of the regional economic planning councils will bottle up much of the frustration with Whitehall that could have been vented through them. The backlash will come in the form of renewed demand for the devolution of powers to the...

10 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
October 1, 2004... SUSTAINABILITY does not mean countryside protection. If anything, it means using the potential of the countryside more effectively. Our landscape is beautiful, but our society is sick. They do not fit. Whether society can improve remains to be...

5 years ago.(T&CP back bites)
October 1, 2004... THE simplistic greenfield-brownfield polarisation only serves to create confusion. There are brownfield sites in the countryside and greenfield sites in the towns, and many brownfield sites have wildlife, recreation and amenity value. The...

Context: news digest, September 2004.
October 1, 2004... * 2.9 'Sustainable communities': The ODPM publishes Home Ownership Solutions for Low Demand Areas, a report on home ownership finance in the nine Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder areas. www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/...

Biodiversity and intelligent local finance from the TCPA.
October 1, 2004... TWO NEW PUBLICATIONS have been launched by the TCPA during September: Funding Sustainable Communities and Biodiversity by Design. Funding Sustainable Communities: Smart Growth and Intelligent Local Finance is the latest in the TCPA's...

Venerable past, sustainable future.
October 1, 2004... 'Garden Cities and New Towns: the Heritage, Conservation and Redevelopment Challenges' TCPA Conference, Milton Keynes, 17 September 2004 IN SEPTEMBER delegates from all over the country descended on Milton Keynes for a TCPA conference...

Farnham fondly recalled.(People & Ideas)
October 1, 2004... MY CHILDREN never believed the true stories I told them of my military life, not even when I recalled my days on the staff at the Army School of Hygiene, where I made beautiful drawings of the anopheles mosquito and of latrine construction. My...

A new Hanseatic era?(Planning World)
October 1, 2004... YOU CAN GO a long way in this augmented European Union of ours: from the Aran Isles to the Pripet marshes, from Lapland to Sicily. Some of these places, although seldom inhospitable (there are B&Bs everywhere nowadays), are true border...

Choice cuts.(Trading Places)
October 1, 2004... THE LARGEST food retailers in the UK are under constant attack by writers and pressure groups. Three recent books (1) have raised concerns such as the nutritional value of prepared and convenience foods, relationships with suppliers, and...

PPG3 in La-La Land.(Off the Fence)
October 1, 2004... Officials in the ODPM were very prickly about criticism of aspects of PPG3: Housing when the current edition was published in March 2000. At a small informal gathering of invited practitioners officials said 'our job was to make PPG3 work'....

Biodiversity by design: increasing development pressures have focused attention on the need to protect and enhance biodiversity--highlighting, as Nick Dodd explains, the need for 'biodiversity by design', a concept promoted in a new TCPA design guide.(biodiversity and planning)
October 1, 2004... THE TCPA HAS LAUNCHED the first in a series of 'by design' guides for sustainable communities. Biodiversity by Design aims to provide practical guidance on how to maximise the opportunities for biodiversity in the planning and design process....

A boost for ecological networks? Draft PPS9 offers positive opportunities for planners to advance the cause of biodiversity through the planning system--if their level of ecological knowledge and understanding is up to the task.(biodiversity and planning)
October 1, 2004... THE LONG AWAITED draft planning policy statement (PPS) to replace PPGg: Nature Conservation, issued almost ten years ago, (1) has now been published for consultation until early December. (2) Draft PPS9: Biodiversity and Geological...

Ecological frameworks in North West England: David Hodcroft and David Alexander report on research into how development plans across North West England address habitat fragmentation and species isolation.(biodiversity and planning)
October 1, 2004... THE UK HAS THE longest established land use planning system in the world, and yet much of the country's environmental character has been seriously damaged and fragmented. (1) In particular, habitat loss and species isolation are regarded as the...

Planning process 'taxed to the limit': David Lock looks at the Panel Report on the Public Examination of the Draft Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy--and finds that planning at the strategic level still feels like swimming in porridge.(growth areas)
October 1, 2004... READERS MAY RECALL the so called 'Crow Report', the Report of the Panel (chaired by Professor Stephen Crow) which conducted the Public Examination of Draft Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (RPG) in 1999. It was candid advice to the...

Tilting at windmills?(wind energy)
October 1, 2004... The gap between general public support for renewable energy and local protest against new wind turbine installations can be marked, and opposition is often simply dismissed as mere 'NIMBYism'; but local opposition to wind energy developments...

The new localism: in the third of a short series of articles on new directions in local government, Janice Morphet looks at the emergence and increasing acceptance of the principles of 'the new localism'.(new directions in local government)
October 1, 2004... THE NOTION OF 'NEW LOCALISM' has been at the heart of a growing debate within both central and local government in the UK since it first appeared as a concept in a New Local Government Network pamphlet published in 2002. (1) 'New localism' has...

Will the rural buildings conversion boom continue? The new PPS7 continues to promote the conversion of rural buildings for business use. John Bentley investigates whether the policy is really in line with the Government's commitment to sustainable development.(rural policy)
October 1, 2004... THE NEW PPS 7; Sustainable Development in Rural Areas continues to favour the re-use of rural buildings for business use. The process is seen by the Government as aiding sustainable development, as it re-uses existing buildings, helps farmers,...

What's on.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... October 13-14 Sustainable Communities: The Skills to Deliver. Short Course, London. 350 [pounds sterling]-450 [pounds sterling] + VAT. Details: Nancy Easter Garcia, TCPA, London. T: 020-7930 8903. E: nancy@tcpa.org.uk 14 Regional...

Creative industries and regeneration: Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort, and David Hillier look at the contribution of the 'creative industries' to the economy and their role in stimulating urban and economic regeneration.(culture and regeneration)
October 1, 2004... MANY OF THE ACTIVITIES that constitute the 'creative industries' are not new, but the term itself was first coined in the UK only in 1997, by the then incoming Labour Government. It has since been widely adopted throughout Europe, and in North...