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What We Can Learn From History
I have been reading the letters of the Younger Pliny. If that sounds pretentious, it is rather. But there is a reason for it. We recently returned from a week-long holiday in southern Italy, in my case travelling with a twinge of -apos-flygskam-apos-, or flight shame, though clearly not enough. The ...
Posted by Nigel Pearce on 15 June 2019
A Manifesto For Our Future
The recent local government elections brought into office a significant number of independent candidates, and indeed many independent-minded members of our national parties.
What they share in common is anger at having their planning system undermined by Whitehall to generate the sort of car-depende...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 05 June 2019
Jump To It, Chancellor
Setting no less a person than the Chancellor of the Exchequer four tests he must meet if the infrastructure needs of the nation are to be met sounds like it could be the action of a pretty independent body.
With HM Treasury effectively running domestic policy, as it has done for some decades now, su...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 13 May 2019
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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
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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