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Agenda to 8 July

26 March 2004

29 March: Planning Law Update. Organiser: Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Northwest Update. Venue: Liverpool. Fee: £85. Details: Helen Sheppard (tel) 0151 794 3262.

Book Review: Luton's tales of historical pride

26 March 2004

The book is a tale of how communities throughout history have grown up and struggled to survive around the springs that form at the mouth of the River Lea. It is a tale that traces Luton, or as the Romans would have known it, Lygetun, meaning town on the River Lea, from the time of the Celtic tribes of Gaul to the modern day.

Turning Point: A flair for helping young people

26 March 2004

I am dyslexic and left school with only a few qualifications and no idea of what type of work I could do. Not long after, my mother and I had an argument and I was kicked out of the house. I went to live with my grandma and managed to get a job working as a security guard for £1 an hour, but I hated it.

Diary: How kids see planners, fresh old advice, and where Grimsby is not

26 March 2004

Planners with an identity crisis need look no further than Camden this week, where the borough's children variously described the urban environment professionals as "posh"; "tall"; "bike-riding"; "good at maths" and "magicians".

Opinion: Editorial - Budget swings and roundabouts for regeneration

26 March 2004

Was the Budget good for regeneration? It really depends on what kind of regeneration you're talking about. If you believe that ending child poverty is the most urgent aspect of the Government's social justice agenda, last Wednesday was a good day, with £669 million extra pledged to the Sure Start programme. Likewise, if you think that the UK's lack of affordable housing is the main problem, you will probably have welcomed Gordon Brown's backing of the Barker report. The chancellor also made reassuring noises about health and education, while tax credits and schemes to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour all seem secure for now.

Rural-Urban Links: The seeds of a solution

26 March 2004

Whilst small farmers are going out of business, inner city communities need better access to cheap, fresh produce. In Yorkshire, Paul Coleman discovers a partnership that tackles both problems.

Housing: Vultures gather in northern skies

26 March 2004

As those with jobs and opportunities flee patches of low housing demand in the North, unscrupulous landlords and speculators are moving in. Heather Greig-Smith reports.

Opinion: Policy shift to the American way

26 March 2004

I remember once doing a Newsnight interview in 1996. They flew me down at short notice from my hols in Northumberland. I didn't have a clean shirt so they loaned me Paxman's emergency white one that he would use if the Queen Mother were to die suddenly. I felt honoured: Paxo's shirt!

Opinion: Barker Review is anything but unsensational

26 March 2004

When Kate Barker met a group of experts at the Institute for Public Policy Research just before Christmas, she warned us not to expect anything sensational either from her interim report - then just due - or from her final report. That proved slightly disingenuous on the first count, brilliantly misleading on the second. For in her first report (Regeneration & Renewal, 12 December 2003, p1) she exposed just how serious is our growing failure to build enough homes. In the second (see Budget News, p8), she's come out on a limb with her proposals to remedy that failure - and they're politically explosive.

Opinion: Ending child poverty gets harder

26 March 2004

One of the boldest commitments made by the Government was its 1999 promise to end child poverty within a generation. This pledge has increased the political profile of poverty, an issue about which we had become frighteningly blase. It has also helped to bolster an extensive array of anti-poverty strategies devised since 1997. Given that 25 per cent of children in the UK live in poverty compared with, for example, three per cent in Sweden, it is right and urgent that this issue be made top priority. One of the most dreadful aspects of the Tory years was the way such destitution in Britain, once considered unthinkable, came to be considered inevitable.