Town and Country Planning articles from September 2005

Town and Country Planning archives from September 2005

25 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
September 1, 2005... IF RESPONSIBLE social and physical planning is to survive the skin-deep classical liberalism of the present conservative government, it needs to find its allies, not in a complacent assumption that the banner of 'Fight the Cut's blankets out...

10 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
September 1, 2005... PLANNERS MUST be wary of the danger that 'virtual cities' made possible by the internet may actually promote further withdrawal of urban social interaction from urban places onto specialised electronic networks. Careful policy innovation needs...

5 years ago.(t&cp back bites)
September 1, 2005... THE PUBLIC needs to become more aware of the consequences of climate change, not on the basis of abstract indicators like global temperature change in the 2080s, but through information about real changes here and now, such as increased flood...

Context: news digest, July & August 2005.
September 1, 2005... * 5.7 Climate Change: New Lessons for Technology Policy and Climate Change: Investment for Innovation, a briefing paper for policy-makers prepared by economists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Cambridge University, Imperial...

Highs and lows.(Director's Diary)
September 1, 2005... THE LAST few weeks at the TCPA's London offices have witnessed the excitement of an excellent TCPA conference on 'Accessible Town Centres', addressed by the Deputy Prime Minister, no less, and deep concern about the incidents on many of our...

New agencies must 'mind the gap'.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
September 1, 2005... THE TCPA has expressed concern that the abolition of the Countryside Agency will leave no single body charged with taking a holistic view of the economic, social, and environmental aspects of planning in rural areas. With the Countryside...

Barbara Hafter--an appreciation.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
September 1, 2005... IT IS TRULY SAD to be asked to write a short appreciation of Barbara Hafter, who died in August 2005 in her 80s. She was for very many years--so many that the TCPA records are inadequate to obtain a precise figure--the mainstay of the journal,...

TCPA at the party conferences 2005.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
September 1, 2005... Inclusive Communities: Who's At Home? Liberal Democrat Party Conference 19 September, 12.30-2.00 pm, Hilton Hotel, Blackpool Labour Party Conference 26 September, 7.00-9.30 pm, Quality Hotel, Brighton Conservative Party Conference 4...

Green belts of tomorrow.(TCPA: HOMES & COMMUNITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE)
September 1, 2005... BACK IN 1919, the TCPA was the first organisation to call for permanent rural or green belts around settlements. Today, the Association still believes in their permanence, but also, now as then, that they must also evolve to accommodate and...

Planning for the mega-city-region.(Planning World)
September 1, 2005... HERE'S A rum old do, as they'd have said when I was a lad up north: Max Hastings, ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph and now President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), writing for the Guardian in support of John Prescott. 'I feel...

Local gain for local pain.(Off the Fence)
September 1, 2005... ENVIRONMENTALISTS and the development industry have both expressed anxiety about the Kate Barker Review of Housing Supply report to the Treasury which makes recommendations to get house-building rates up, to get house prices down, and to take a...

Climate change--a special case in the planning system? As a matter of urgency the Government should issue a cross-departmental statement on the role that the planning system must play in addressing climate change.(climate change)
September 1, 2005... THERE IS INCREASING scientific consensus that the climate is changing--and, moreover, that climatic changes will intensify, with potentially catastrophic implications for global ecosystems. While the science is increasingly well understood and...

A National Spatial Planning Framework for England? I-Context and need: in Part I of a two-part article on a National Spatial Planning Framework for England, Chris Shepley outlines the reasons why there is a need for a national spatial strategy to produce a package of matching and consistent policies.(national spatial strategy)
September 1, 2005... THE TCPA's Commission of Inquiry into England's development needs and priorities has been examining the need for a National Spatial Planning Framework (NSPF) for England. (1) The Commission, established under the title 'A Vision for England's...

No more tinkering--putting planning at the top of Scotland's agenda: Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel examine the principal elements and provisions of the Scottish Executive's White Paper on the reform of the planning system.(planning in scotland)
September 1, 2005... THE LONG-AWAITED White Paper Modernising the Planning System was published in late June 2005. (1) This forms part--but is clearly not the culmination--of a process of modernisation of the Scottish land use planning system that commenced prior...

The rise of the sub-region; Janice Morphet looks at some of the drivers of change in the emergence of a sub-regional scale of working in governance.(governance)
September 1, 2005... IN A PERIOD when the focus in governance has been on devolution, the potential for directly elected regional government in England, and local government modernisation--and on the formal arrangements and the relative powers at each level--the...

Ecological footprints over Europe; in the wake of the publication of WWF's Europe 2005 Ecological Footprint report, Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort, and David Hillier examine the concept of ecological footprinting and look at how it can provide valuable perspectives on resource use and sustainable development.(ecological footprinting)
September 1, 2005... THE CONCEPT of the 'ecological footprint' is used to measure the impact of an individual, a community, a city, a country, or the world's population as a whole upon the Earth's natural resources. The initial development of the concept is...

Students and the urban renaissance: the robust migration performance of central cities during the 1990s may have been almost exclusively the result of the expansion of higher education.(demographic change)
September 1, 2005... PREVIOUS ARTICLES in Town & Country Planning (1) have suggested that the movement of people out of the central cities of England's main conurbations outside London has slowed over the 1990s; from an annual net outflow of 4,500 in 1991 to 3,400...

Devolution and development--the Sardinian experience: the recent transition from Italian rule to regional autonomy has contributed to the development of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, with agri-tourism, local products, and traditional crafts stimulating the Sardinian economy.(regional development)
September 1, 2005... 'THERE IS NOT in Italy what there is in Sardinia, nor in Sardinia what there is in Italy,' wrote the 18th century monk Francesco Cetti after a visit to the Italian island. A few centuries after Cetti, Sardinia still differs from the Italian...

The big lie of modern philanthropy.(Going Local)
September 1, 2005... IT IS ONE of the big lies of modern philanthropy. Maybe it is the big lie. Either way, it is one of those embarrassing reality disjunctions that nobody involved in grant-giving seems prepared to discuss. The problem is that there are little or...

Nuclear nexus.(Future Work)
September 1, 2005... ANYONE concerned with environment, planning, and public engagement in civil society should mourn the loss of Robin Cook MP, who died suddenly on 6 August. His influence in these matters was a lot greater than some readers of Town & Country...

Writeback.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2005... I WELCOME Diane Warburton's contribution to the debate on planning participation (Who are the NIMBYs?', Town & Country Planning, May 2005). There is, of course, a vast spectrum of types of development that trigger the NIMBY reaction...

The question of property.(Inside America)
September 1, 2005... THREE THINGS roll American political and social life more than any other. The first is race, which continues to feed bigotry and hatred, even as it has inspired the highest ideals of equality and justice. The second is religion, which seems to...