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Casebook: Valley homes rejected as premature and damaging

9 April 2004

A proposal to build approximately 110 dwellings at a site in the Dee valley in north-east Scotland has been rejected by a reporter who concluded that it would encourage the coalescence of neighbouring settlements.

Casebook: Budget hotel refused due to sequential test failures

9 April 2004

Whitbread PLC has failed to secure planning permission for a 56-bedroom Travel Inn on the edge of a town in Cornwall after an inspector ruled that the proposal involved the creation of a use that should be located on a site better integrated with the town.

A place for heritage in decision-making

9 April 2004

Bridging the gap between heritage protection and development is the theme of an initiative aimed at local authority planners. Huw Morris investigates

Interview: Ulsterman's journey

9 April 2004

From war-torn Northern Ireland to the Caribbean idyll of St Lucia, summer school president Bill Morrison's career has been varied and exciting, he tells David Dewar

Editorial: Scotland's blueprint bodes well for future

9 April 2004

Following Northern Ireland's regional development strategy and the Wales Spatial Plan, it was Scotland's turn last week to launch its own national planning blueprint and thereby join the brave new world of spatial planning.

Opinion: Fyson on... updated controls for better green belt designation

9 April 2004

Given the hysteria that generally prevails when even the smallest amount of green belt land is released for development, it is hardly surprising that governments seek prominent publicity for any net increases that they chalk up in the national stock. Hence last week's trumpeting of 25,000ha added since 1997.

Flexible policy is key to meeting housing need

9 April 2004

Demand for housing conflicts with limits on the use of green belt land, writes Susanna Gillman With one hand the government is trying to find solutions to the housing shortage. With the other it is trying to prevent urban sprawl.

Gummer on... drive to improve house building completion sums

9 April 2004

All the signs are that the number of houses to be built this year and next is not likely to be significantly greater than the low total of completions in 2003. Deputy prime minister John Prescott is pinning all his hopes on the plans for the growth area proposals. The Treasury, on the other hand, is seeking to engineer a far more extensive range of options based on the Barker review. As expected, these take us back to the long-standing Treasury belief that planning is an incubus on the economic growth of the nation. There is little appreciation of its role in creating the environment that makes the UK the preferred destination of so many international companies. Neither is there an acceptance of the research that shows that the planning system is economically advantageous and not an inhibition on growth.

Analysis: Pathfinders' cash rolled out

9 April 2004

Will the latest round of housing renewal funding meet the pathfinders' needs? asks Chris Baker

Business Brief: GL Hearn to evaluate merit

9 April 2004

GL Hearn is to evaluate the heritage merit of Victorian and Edwardian residential properties in north-west Bromley for the local authority. The study will examine the maintenance of environmental quality in the context of PPG3's objective to make economic use of scarce urban housing land. It is being carried out with a view to including the properties in extended or newly-designated conservation areas or in plans that would provide greater protection from inappropriate development.