Town and Country Planning articles from October 2006

Town and Country Planning archives from October 2006

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
October 1, 2006... IN THE dramas of the inner cities this summer, it was only the young who, with unfocused energy, burnt, looted and rioted. The people of the inner city went on with their lives as best they could, knowing the only result will be further decay...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
October 1, 2006... IT appears that pressures on water resources will increase over the next few decades, over and above the increased pressures already anticipated by the water industry. A lack of available additional water may pose a constraint on developments...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
October 1, 2006... IN AN age of hyper-mobility, where no-one thinks twice about travelling 30 miles to shop or enjoy leisure, the places with the biggest and richest range win out. And planning policy is not going to alter that fundamental fact: the urban...

Context: news digest, September 2006.
October 1, 2006... * 7.9 Town centres: The DCLG publishes Review of the Role of Property Owners in Business Improvement Districts: First Interim Report, presenting interim findings from the first part of research into the role of property owners in business...

TCPA.(Inside Stories)(Town and Country Planning Association)
October 1, 2006... The charitable purpose of the Town and Country Planning Association is to improve the art and science of town and country planning. It puts social justice and the environment at the heart of policy debate and inspires government, industry and...

What to do with England's fastest-growing region? David Waterhouse outlines some key points from the TCPA response to the draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West.(Regional Round-Up)(Town and Country Planning Association)
October 1, 2006... Producing a regional strategy for ah area that stretches from Tewkesbury and the flood plain of the River Severn to the Isles of Scilly is a Herculean task. The polycentric nature of the South West region makes it doubly difficult to produce a...

TCPA and FOE call for 'climate-proofed' plans.(Regional Round-Up)(Friends of the Earth)
October 1, 2006... The TCPA and Friends of the Earth (FOE) have published a 'mock' planning policy statement (PPS) on climate change, ahead of the first Government draft due later this year. The discussion document, entitled Tackling Climate Change Through...

Lesson for London from the Capital of Nostalgia.(Planning World)(Vienna)
October 1, 2006... Other cities strut and fret their hour upon the stage as European Capital of Culture; Vienna forever keeps its place as European Capital of Nostalgia. Image after image conjures up a lost past: the lonely Empress Sisi, endlessly exercising and...

Brownfield squeeze.(Off the Fence)
October 1, 2006... The 'brownfield target' is intended to encourage everyone to use damaged land for house-building, rather than fresh green fields. This allows the green fields to be left alone, perhaps soaking up grant aid for doing not much (for example the...

Out of order.(Trading Places)
October 1, 2006... ONE OF THE proudest boasts of Government ministers in the former ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) was that the 'town centres first' policy was 'working'. For example, John Prescott has spoken (in ah address to a TCPA event) about...

Planning in a global context.(planning and global urbanisation)
October 1, 2006... The Vancouver Declaration and the ten key principles of the New Urban Planning' paradigm, both launched at the recent World Planners Congress, together mark an important and much-needed stepping stone towards effective planning that is fit for...

The Energy Review--more of everything may not be the best bet: with a White Paper on Energy expected 'around the turn of the year', Dave Elliott looks at what the Energy Review offered in terms of energy supply options.(energy policy)
October 1, 2006... 'IF THE REVIEW was open, transparent and fair, looking at the options on economic grounds across a whole life cost assessment of nuclear stations, the solution may well point to renewables,' said Elliot Morley ex-Environment Minister, just...

Towards appropriate assessment of plans: Riki Therivel discusses 'appropriate assessment' of land use plans--what it involves, who has done what so far, and some key issues that those carrying it out are likely to face.(habitat and biodiversity protection)
October 1, 2006... IF YOUR emerging plan could have any kind of impact on a special protection area (SPA) for birds of special area of conservation (SAC) for habitats, then read on... because you will need to carry out an appropriate assessment of your plan....

Regenerating Bristol's Harbourside: Andrew Tallon examines the regeneration of Bristol's docklands and the wider lessons it offers for planners, policy-makers and academics about contemporary processes of urban change.(regeneration)
October 1, 2006... THE LANDSCAPE of Bristol's Harbourside is a rich source of evidence on the transformation of a key part of a major city centre, providing an interesting microcosm of the processes taking place in many city centres. It exemplifies an area which...

Sustainable development--do the numbers add up? Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort and David Hillier look at what the Defra publication Sustainable Development Indicators in Your Pocket 2006 reveals about the UK's progress towards sustainable development, and at some of the issues raised by the use of sustainable development indicators.(sustainable development indicators)(Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
October 1, 2006... THE SEEMINGLY all-pervasive political consensus on the importance of sustainable development is not matched by agreement about how to define the concept. This 'persistent definitional ambiguity' (1) generates major challenges for the...

Old dog, new tricks--recent guidance on the use of planning obligations.(Legal Eye)
October 1, 2006... LORD NOLAN in his Report on Standards in Public Life (1997) described planning gain as "the most intractable aspect' of a planning system which he characterised as 'clearly a subject that exudes strong passions...'. Nearly a decade has elapsed...

Poundbury: The Town That Charles Built.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built By Dennis Hardy Photographs by Jane Woolfenden Published by the TCPA, London, 2006 ISBN 0 902797 40 9 PB, 176 pages, 165 x 220 mm, 14.99 [pounds sterling] Index and colour photographs Publication is...

More households to be housed--where is the increase in households coming from?(TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING Tomorrow Series Paper 5)(Statistical data)
October 1, 2006... In our article 'Housing the next generation', published in Town & Country Planning last year, (1) we looked at the prospect for growth in the number of households and the implications for need and demand for housing. We based our assessment on...