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16 January 2004

DIARY TO 30 JANUARY

TRANSPORT: Weighing travel options

16 January 2004

If you think expanding our air capacity at the expense of high-speed rail is an effective way of improving our urban centres, you may have your head in the clouds, says Ben Walker.

HOUSING: The house that Kate built

16 January 2004

Economist Kate Barker's Treasury report on the house-building industry provides a solid set of foundations for tackling housing shortages. Now, says Colin Marrs, the Government will need to become the architects of real change.

RTPI NEWS: Comment - First annual RTPI lecture

16 January 2004

An open letter to Sir Peter Hall

EDITORIAL: Upfront Natwest puts pressure on high street rivals

By Richard Garlick

16 January 2004

In a landmark move, RBS Natwest has released details of how much it lends to small businesses in deprived areas (see Community Renewal News p7).

RTPI NEWS: Bulletin Board

16 January 2004

NEW YEAR'S HONOURS

OPINION: Crossing London's great divide

16 January 2004

At last, something big to cheer us up: progress on plans for a Thames Gateway bridge (see Economic Development News, p13). First mooted by Abercrombie in 1943, east Londoners have waited a long time for their masters to enable them to cross the river as easily as their richer fellow-Londoners in the west. Now sense and courage have prevailed.

OPINION: Time to banish shadow of fear

16 January 2004

In the report of the Race Equality Review for Greenwich Council, which I chaired, one of the tendencies we noted, surveying the ten years since the death of Stephen Lawrence, was a policy of "risk aversion" on the part of agencies involved in race relations. These include the police and the local authority.

RTPI NEWS: Turning the RTPI's policy into action

16 January 2004

This is the first of a series of monthly articles discussing how the institute is dealing with significant policy issues, says Kelvin MacDonald.

OPINION: Selling off local cells won't be good for justice

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

16 January 2004

David Blunkett plans to sell off Brixton, Wandsworth and Holloway. Well, not the entire areas - although, given the rumours about the draconian powers he planned to give himself in his Civil Contingencies Bill, now scotched, who knows? No, its just the eponymous Victorian jails that are in Blunkett's sights. Their redevelopment value, apparently, is irresistible.