Archive

Scotland airs wind concern

29 August 2008

The government has responded to claims that it is jeopardising Scotland's renewables industry by ruling out subsidies for remote wind farms.

Framework sparks fears of lost rights

22 August 2008

Scottish Government proposals to fast-track schemes deemed to be of national importance have been slammed by environmental charity the John Muir Trust.

Nuisance immunity concerns rejected

22 August 2008

The DCLG has refuted fears about a clause slipped into the Planning Bill to exempt all major infrastructure projects from nuisance claims.

Structural engineering

15 August 2008

Unitary councils have gained further ground in the latest round of local government reorganisation proposals and planners will have an essential role in making them work, says Mark Smulian.

Call for move south slated

15 August 2008

North and south have united in deriding a report advocating the end of regeneration spending in northern towns in favour of massive housing expansion in the south.

Policy clash cited in climate plan report

1 August 2008

MPs have concluded that contradictions in cross-governmental planning policy are hampering efforts to tackle climate change.

Green clash feared on bill

1 August 2008

Lawyers have warned that key parts of the Planning Bill will fall foul of European environmental legislation and provoke legal challenges.

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.

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.