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MOVES: Appointments at CgMs

9 January 2004

John Brooks and Steve Wilson have been promoted to directors in the planning department at CgMs. Jonathan Edis has been promoted to director and head of historic buildings and Greg Dowden has been made an associate director. He was previously at Rolfe Judd Planning.

DIARY: Flights of fancy, fiery speech from the DPM and a haunting campaign

9 January 2004

News just in from Transport Towers: People living in the flight path of Heathrow's planned third runway should be offered subsidised school trips to the countryside by air operators, or the provision of quiet music or reading rooms to make up for the 24,000 tonnes of jet rattling their walls to the foundations every hour.

MOVES: Appointment at Hyder Consulting

9 January 2004

Janice Hughes has been appointed principal consultant on the planning and transport team at Hyder Consulting in Cardiff. She will develop strategy and policy business. Hughes previously worked at Atkins, where she was a managing consultant in the transport planning business.

TURNING POINT: Agent for community investment

9 January 2004

A turning point can be reached without knowing it. I only realised recently how my life had changed and that I had in fact been heading in a new direction for some time.

DIARY: Media man makes conference mark

9 January 2004

The planning and productivity conference just before Christmas was the beneficiary of a suitably high-profile presenter in the shape of television frontman Nick Ross, best known for shows such as Watchdog, The Search and, most notorious of all, Crimewatch.

2004: The year ahead

9 January 2004

After years of growth, 2004 looks set to be a year of belt-tightening in the regeneration sector. Ben Willis, Ben Walker, Nick Loney and Matt Ross cast their eyes over the year ahead.

DIARY: Winged rats win artistic recognition

9 January 2004

Trafalgar Square's most loyal but messiest residents have been recognised in an artwork proposed to share the square with Nelson's Column. A car covered in pigeon droppings is one of six sculptures unveiled over Christmas that will compete to occupy the square's vacant fourth plinth.

EDITORIAL: Lottery funders must remain free to take risks

By Richard Garlick

9 January 2004

Pumping tens of millions of pounds of public money into a new botanical visitor attraction in a remote Celtic outpost is clearly a risky enterprise.

AGENDA

9 January 2004

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OPINION: Less whingeing, more action

9 January 2004

After my last piece before Christmas (Regeneration & Renewal, 12 December, p18) even the vicar scowled at me at midnight mass (Ok, I made the last sentence up for effect, but you get the drift). I confess: I was tearing what's left of my follicles out because a noble deal was going off the rails. Accordingly, my usually balanced and more-or-less good natured (yeah, well) commentary on the foibles of the whacky world of regeneration got swept away in a somewhat unseasonal avalanche of exasperation.