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Paper offers no clear answer on needs test
25 May 2007
"The Government has listened... to moderate some of the wilder assertions made about planning in the recent past." So says the Royal Town Planning Institute in welcoming this week's planning white paper. This is code for saying that the Department for Communities and Local Government won its battles against the free marketers at the Treasury.
Political pressure grows for casinos
25 May 2007
There's one tricky bit of regeneration business to be resolved before Labour's 27 June handover: where to put Britain's first mega-casino. Back in January, the independent advisory panel stunned everyone - including, apparently, the Government - by recommending Manchester, the outsider, over the favourite Blackpool (where I chair the urban regeneration company). Then in March, when the Government put an order before Parliament for this regional casino and 16 smaller ones, the Lords threw it out. Result: pause for cogitation, prolonged by a convention prohibiting the Government from statements that could influence the local elections.
Post office survival requires creativity
25 May 2007
Given the oft-repeated mantra that "post offices are the lifeblood of the local community", it is surprising how few new models of community provision have developed in response to the rapid restructuring of, and reduction in the size of, the post office network. The moment has come for all those with an interest in communities to step up to the plate.
Planning white paper falls short of detail needed to press ahead
25 May 2007
White papers used to be full of detail about how the government proposed to deliver on key policies. Those were the days. Given the Treasury meddling and nonsense peddled by business interests, this week's planning white paper could have been much worse. It shows all the signs of planning's supporters in Whitehall fighting a rearguard action and just about holding on for now.
Halman on ... Ten years of buzzwords
25 May 2007
While stationary in the fast lane of the M6 recently, I heard a piece on the radio about Tony Blair's ten years at the top. It featured a list of phrases that have emerged in that time, including antisocial behaviour orders, weapons of mass destruction, the fox-hunting ban and paying for peerages. It was a useful way to be reminded of noteworthy events under his premiership.
Housing wealth may be key to business
18 May 2007
I learned something the other day. I learned the key reason why some areas have high entrepreneurial activity and rates of company formation and others don't. It's the simple, obvious and big fact (or SOBF) that the former have higher levels of home-ownership and the latter higher levels of social housing.
Farewell today Blair, but judgement day awaits
18 May 2007
Perhaps it simply mirrors a human reluctance to speak ill of the dead, but people often recognise individuals' merits upon their passing from office, despite failing to record their worth while they were in power.
Brown's tax change is good for housing
18 May 2007
It's reasonable to surmise that few regenerators spare time to scan the office copy of Estates Gazette - assuming, of course, that their organisation subscribes. Yet the magazine can offer a useful insight into the mentality of those in the construction industry. For, whatever their wider public aspirations, developers are driven by their bottom lines. If the numbers stack up, they'll do it; if not, they won't.
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