Archive

Agency cash lifts business

12 December 2008

England's regional development agencies (RDAs) created 56,000 businesses in 2007-08 by investing £260 million to encourage innovation, latest analysis shows.

Lawyers touted for panel

28 November 2008

Leading planning lawyers are being headhunted for the infrastructure planning commission (IPC), which is to go ahead after the Planning Bill got Royal Assent this week.

Richards on ... taking care in time of crisis

21 November 2008

Everyone is talking about the slowdown.

Ministers must save post office branches to protect vulnerable

By Huw Morris

14 November 2008

There are 12,000 of them across the country. They are part of the very fabric of the nation, with thousands of communities dependent on them.

Fyson on ... Approval for luxury golf complex

By Anthony Fyson

14 November 2008

Approval for luxury golf complex reveals government's failure to stand up to the super-rich.

Further golf bid approved

14 November 2008

A second major golf complex in Aberdeenshire has been backed by Scottish ministers just days after they granted approval for Donald Trump's resort at Balmedie.

Trump win ends dune fight

7 November 2008

The RSPB said it has reached the end of the road in its campaign against US tycoon Donald Trump's £1 billion golf resort after outline consent was granted this week.

Findings of global survey

31 October 2008

A quarter of planners from more than 100 countries believe that managing development impacts and increasing planning capacity are the greatest challenges they face.

Cities on the brink

31 October 2008

UN Habitat's latest analysis of the world's cities stresses the key contribution that planners can make in finding solutions to problems that affect all our futures, writes Huw Morris.

Councils called on to submit proposals for improvements to their local area

17 October 2008

Communities secretary Hazel Blears this week called on councils to work with residents in formulating ideas on what central government can do to help improve their local area.