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RTPI NEWS: Business improvement

9 January 2004

Guidance should be more explicit about the role of the property owner, says RTPI planning policy executive Louise Waring.

OPINION: Making real life headline news

9 January 2004

Just before Christmas, I spent two days with a journalist and photographer from the Guardian, introducing them to projects in Handsworth and Aston in Birmingham. Their brief was to review progress since the shootings of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis one year ago. The feature was published to coincide with a vigil organised by the victims' mothers, Beverley Thompson and Marcia Shakespeare.

RTPI NEWS: RTPI BULLETIN Board - Planning in time

9 January 2004

Patsy Healey writes: Are you struggling to deal with evaluations, predictions and forecasts?

OPINION: A very seasonal tale of housing market growth

By Sir Peter Hall, professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Email: sir.peter.hall@haynet.com

9 January 2004

The Christmas and New Year period is the season of recycled roast turkey and instant microwave news. You suddenly realise that a large part of the news is manufactured - not in the Hutton Inquiry sense, but simply processed and served in neat chunks to meet the insatiable appetites of the meeja. But at holiday times, the news factories shut.

RTPI NEWS: Drawing on a diverse membership

9 January 2004

More than 140 individuals and organisations have now joined the three ROOMatRTPI associations, says Rebecca Phillips.

INTERVIEW: Heading up a hospital transplant

9 January 2004

Combining two health trusts and a medical college, a new hospital complex is set to rise in Paddington. Gareth Goodier, chief executive of one of the trusts, talks to Colin Marrs about the implications for regeneration.

RTPI NEWS: Implementing a vision: the RTPI's manifesto for planning

9 January 2004

The manifesto shows the RTPI's eagerness to be more outspoken on the issues that planners face, says Kelvin MacDonald.

ANALYSIS: Councils primed to deliver

9 January 2004

In a renewed effort to reform and improve public services, the Government aims to devolve more power to local authorities, with real rewards for those that deliver. Dick Sorabji looks at the implications of the new policy.

CASEBOOK: Development Control Casebook Forum

9 January 2004

Send your queries or your replies to earlier queries to: Development Control Casebook Forum, Development Control Services, Suite 1, Fullers Court, Lower Quay Street, Gloucester GL1 2LW. Alternatively, fax them to 01978 869355 or e-mail them to casebook@haynet.com.

TRANSPORT NEWS: White Paper heralds air traffic expansion

9 January 2004

Massive expansion of the UK's airports was given the go-ahead before Christmas.