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Government delays outlining planning stance

30 July 2008

The Government will not detail its stance on the proposed 'competition test' to be faced by large grocery stores seeking planning permission until a legal challenge against the test has been concluded, it emerged today.

Conservatives: social gulf like 'Victorian times'

28 July 2008

The gulf between rich and poor in cities is wider now than at any stage since Victorian times, the Conservatives are due to say tomorrow.

MPs urge fuel poverty re-think

28 July 2008

The Government must consider a fundamental re-think of its approach to tackling fuel poverty, a report by MPs says today.

Manchester congestion charge vote set for December

28 July 2008

The people of Greater Manchester will vote in December on whether a congestion charge will be introduced in the city-region.

Wales sets out its planning agenda to build on growing legislative power

25 July 2008

Ministers are keen to support planners as Wales embarks on a strategy to lift communities out of deprivation with ambitious targets for affordable rural housing and sustainable development, reports Roisin Willmott.

HCA should be up and running by early December

24 July 2008

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) should be up and running by early December after the Housing and Regeneration Bill won Royal Assent this week.

"Work for dole paper" to be published this afternoon

21 July 2008

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell will publish the Welfare Reform Green Paper this afternoon.

Johnson picks LGA chair as his deputy

18 July 2008

London mayor Boris Johnson has nominated Sir Simon Milton, Local Government Association chair, to be his deputy mayor for policy and planning.

Fyson on ... the Planning Convention's growing range of influence in the professional and political sphere

By Anthony Fyson

18 July 2008

It must give the RTPI considerable satisfaction that its Planning Convention is firmly established as the occasion when the government launches initiatives, albeit long-heralded ones such as the consultation on planning town centres and the institute-inspired planning policy outcome assessment methodology.

'Renewal key' to Glasgow election

18 July 2008

The by-election in Glasgow East, seen as crucial to the survival of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, will be won on issues of jobs, poverty and regeneration, Labour's candidate said this week.