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A Tiny Shard Of Truth
The Growth Corridor, or whatever the plan for colossal and unsustainable development between Newbury and Cambridge is called this week, has been attracting favourable reviews at MIPIM UK.
The property industry annual festival at Olympia has been looking at the plan to dump a million homes, a 100-mil...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 18 October 2018
An Appeal To Reason
The debate over third-party rights of appeal in the planning system seems to have broken out again in Scotland with a great deal of fresh energy.
For the benefit of those who find better things to do with their time than examine the minutiae of the planning process, the basic position is that the UK...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 28 September 2018
Truths, Damned Truths And Projections
I wonder whether there is relief or regret around the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government over the decision last year to transfer responsibility for household growth projections to the Office of National Statistics.
The projections, officially the basis of policies demanding the bu...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 21 September 2018
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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