Showing posts with label planners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planners. Show all posts
Monday, 21 July 2014

On how planning nearly killed Birmingham and why garden cities aren't the answer

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**** And before Brummies leap in and accuse me of doing down their city, the same goes for Bradford, for Leeds and for just about every ot...
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Markets work - so planners have to stop them!

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**** Central London offices are being converted into homes : “We have sold over 100 office buildings in Mayfair back into residential us...
Monday, 16 July 2012

A panel of all the folk who screwed up urban design in the first place...

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**** ... or so it seems : "We’ve signed up people from architecture, planning and infrastructure backgrounds, as well as academic...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

Something everyone but the planners seems to know...

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**** From Keith Exford , Chief Executive of leading housing association, Affinity Sutton: ‘Housing markets are very different around th...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

First salvo in the town planners' war on community is fired...

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**** I recall a planner - a very senior planner - describing the localism act and its neighbourhood planning ideas as "the thin end o...
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Friday, 20 April 2012

So taxes on development mean less development? No surprise there then!

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**** The "Community Infrastructure Levy" (CIL) is a hypothecated tax on development. The intention is to get funds for all those...
Saturday, 10 March 2012

Some evidence suggesting the CPRE are wrong about the National Planning Policy Framework

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**** A core criticism of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has been that it will be in place ahead of most local authorities ...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Well done those Councillors...

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**** The planning fraternity have in recent times taken to using all sorts of threats and such to prevent Councillors from voting differen...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Mad Frankie is right here....

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**** Francis Maude - dubbed 'Mad Frankie" by Mr Fawkes - had this to say about the National Trust and planning: "No. I m...
Thursday, 29 September 2011

Bradford's LDF consultation will be a disgrace...

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Cottingley The current planning legislation and the legislation wending its way through parliament in the form of the Localism Bill spe...
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Sunday, 25 September 2011

Some good news, some secrecy and a worry about planning in Bradford

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Cullingworth On Friday, the Shipley Planning Panel refused an application to build over 400 new houses on land at Sty Lane in Micklet...
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Monday, 19 September 2011

Is planning too "professionalised"? You bet it is!

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**** Liberal Democrat Communities Minister, Andrew Stunnell hits the nail firmly on the head: "A reasonable charge was put to me t...
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Friday, 2 September 2011

Perhaps this might explain why houses don't get built...

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From a comment on Douglas Carswell MP's blog - submitted by an architect: I am an architect who, occasionally, has endured the hardsh...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

How to create a housing crisis - remove the right to develop!

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Amidst all the special pleading and NIMBY critiques of proposals to change the planning system – you know make it a little simpler so as t...
Sunday, 28 August 2011

Mrs Fowler's problem is nothing to do with the Coalition proposals on planning...

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The view into Swaledale - nowhere near Sudbury but lovely nonetheless Planning is a tricky business. Especially if, like me, you’re th...