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Some places are impossible to save

By Tim Williams

14 December 2007

With regeneration, just as with estate agents, the key is location, location, location. It matters where you are: close to a thriving market and your place flourishes, far-flung and you struggle.

Winners and losers in a new era of funding

14 December 2007

We know that the Government wants to refocus regeneration onto tackling unemployment and other economic priorities. We know that ministers have promised to devolve more decision-making. But what this means in practice has up until now been unclear.

Regional policy is dead and buried

By Sir Peter Hall

14 December 2007

There are defining moments in your life that you remember years later. For me, one was in 1978 when the South East Planning Council backed building the M25 motorway as its top national transport priority.

Beware the use of headline figures

By Karen Buck

14 December 2007

What an emotional roller-coaster ride we go on when we enter the theme park of international comparisons.

Prisoners of fortune

By Huw Morris

14 December 2007

Planners have been landed with another problem - more jails.

Windfarm warrior

By Anthony Fyson

14 December 2007

John Hutton's principled stance is the only way to head off disaster.

War of the Roses

By Chris Shepley

14 December 2007

Imagine London with a large range of mountains running through the centre.

Generals in the war against mediocrity

By Tim Williams, who advises the Government and is a director ofNavigant Consulting. Email: tim.williams@haymarket.com

7 December 2007

When you've been around, you pick up all sorts of friends and comrades in the Great British Struggle Against Risk Aversion and Mediocrity. Although a lousy friend, I thought I'd change the habits of a lifetime now to celebrate some of them.

Grant could encourage councils to cut poverty

By Ben Walker, deputy editor. Email: regeneration@haymarket.com

7 December 2007

Government targets have fallen out of fashion. They are increasingly seen as tools of the centralised state, remnants of a Blairite administration that liked to dictate to councils how they should spend their money and what they should aim to achieve with it.

Empty words

By Sir Peter Hall

7 December 2007

The DfT has turned into the Department for Air Transport.