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A Critical Moment For Climate Change
We environmentalists are usually better at dishing out criticism than taking it, but that may have to change now issues like climate change are shooting up the political agenda.
Whether this last week does prove to be a turning point in governments, businesses and ordinary folk accepting the challen...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 20 April 2019
The Vision Thing
Planners are sensitive folk, hardly surprising given the abuse they get in their everyday work and the 15 year onslaught on the practice in England by Whitehall.
But more than a few planning feathers have been ruffled by an article by URBED director David Rudlin which argues that 72 years of the pla...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 12 April 2019
Opacity And Secrecy
Anyone who has followed the planning system in England over the past 15 years will be aware that central government has been slowly but surely strangling the rights of local planning authorities and citizens to make a meaningful contribution to the decision making process.
Sadly this has cut across ...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 04 April 2019
Latest News
No progress on transport carbon
Scottish transport carbon emissions remain stubbornly high....
Added on 19 January 2017
Javid outlines housing plans
The communities secretary has given a few more details of the Home Building Fund in advance of a white paper....
Added on 11 October 2016
Fix local transport first urges Campaign
The Campaign for Better Transport is urging a shift in transport spending towards fixing existing infrastructure and local projects....
Added on 03 October 2016
Des Collins warns on Redcar
The solicitor who secured damages over reclamation of the Corby steel works has waded into the future of the Teesside site....
Added on 26 September 2016
Confused messages in Welsh transport plans
Welsh ministers have set out a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with new public transport and to increase them with motorway construction....
Added on 23 September 2016
Transit-oriented-development urged
A CPRE paper says TOD can be used in small to medium sized towns....
Added on 20 September 2016
Government snubs call for contaminated land funding
DEFRA has refused a Commons select committee recommendation to continue funding council Part 2A work....
Added on 17 September 2016
Bill should support rural buses say campaigners
The Bus Services Bill needs amending say campaginers....
Added on 17 September 2016
Bradford goes for hypersprawl
Bradford City Council core strategy proposes building 11,000 homes in its green belt....
Added on 14 September 2016
Car-dependent sprawl for West Oxfordshire
The District Council is proposing destruction of a huge area of farmland beside the A40....
Added on 12 September 2016