Archive

Community energy guide launched

31 March 2008

Local communities should start taking responsibility for creating clean energy, leading planning and energy experts said today.

Councils mooted to scrutinise regional development agencies

31 March 2008

A forum of local authority leaders would hold regional development agencies (RDA) to account when they take over planning powers from regional assemblies, the government has suggested.

City regions could get wider powers

31 March 2008

Statutory city regions could be handed wider powers than previously suggested under plans contained in a consultation on a major review of economic development and regeneration.

Gypsies seek approval for Warwickshire site

28 March 2008

A group of Gypsies applied for planning approval before taking over a site in Warwickshire, it has emerged.

Pretty reassures councils over review

28 March 2008

David Pretty, who is leading the government's latest review of the planning system, has promised that it will not be a "council bashing exercise".

Repetitive renewal 'fails the deprived'

28 March 2008

People in deprived communities are caught in a "groundhog day" of renewal initiatives that have little impact because they do not improve on past policy failings, a report published this week claims.

Taking to the water

28 March 2008

Houseboats have sustainable potential, Catherine Early finds.

Fyson on ... a positive approach to transport planning

By Anthony Fyson

28 March 2008

Plans for the future have to offer the prospect of a congenial life or the public will reject them.

Legal Report

28 March 2008

Parliamentarians fly the flag for planning causes.

Gummer on ... fighting back for local rights

By John Gummer

28 March 2008

Bribery is not a nice word.