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LDA accelerates new risk management regime

15 February 2008

The London Development Agency (LDA) will fast track the introduction of a new monitoring regime in order to better mitigate any risk that may affect its investments, it revealed last week.

Competition watchdog to publish findings of investigation

15 February 2008

The competition watchdog was due to publish the findings of its investigation of supermarkets as Regeneration & Renewal went to press.

RDAs get investment tool go-ahead

15 February 2008

Regional development agencies have been given the green light by the Government to draw up plans to use a new Brussels-backed investment tool for urban areas, Regeneration & Renewal has learned.

Croydon scheme approved

31 January 2008

House builder Barratt has secured planning consent to create an urban village of 796 apartments in south London.

Peripheral problems

By Sir Peter Hall

18 January 2008

Areas in core cities are improving at the expense of places further out.

SW told to raise its homes target

18 January 2008

The planned rate of housebuilding in the South-West should be raised by over a fifth to more than 28,000 new homes a year, a government-appointed panel has told the South-West Regional Assembly.

Midlands plans backed

18 January 2008

Plans to focus future growth in the Black Country on four strategic centres were endorsed this week by the Government.

Birmingham fears over homes grant

18 January 2008

A proposed £510 million government fund to encourage councils to raise housebuilding targets in their areas is biased against major urban areas, Birmingham City Council claimed this week.

Decision to call in golf plan 'took five minutes'

18 January 2008

The Scottish Government's decision to call in the planning application for tycoon Donald Trump's proposed golf course near Aberdeen was made after just "a five minute phone call" between its chief planner and the finance secretary, MSPs were told this week.

Search to find UK's biggest schemes

18 January 2008

Research has begun for the 2008 edition of the Top 100 Regeneration Projects: an annual Regeneration & Renewal special report that ranks the UK's biggest regeneration schemes in order of their investment cost.