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MOVES: Appointment at Barton Willmore

9 January 2004

Mark Sitch has been promoted to partner at Barton Willmore. He was previously a director at the firm's Reading office. Sitch works on regeneration projects in Coventry and Rugby and mixed-use and commercial sites throughout the region.

MOVES: Appointment at WSP Development

9 January 2004

Jason Brooks has joined WSP Development as a board director. He is responsible for managing the southern region and the development of the firm's international business. Brooks was previously a director with Atkins Transport Planning.

DIARY: Flights of fancy, fiery speech from the DPM and a haunting campaign

9 January 2004

News just in from Transport Towers: People living in the flight path of Heathrow's planned third runway should be offered subsidised school trips to the countryside by air operators, or the provision of quiet music or reading rooms to make up for the 24,000 tonnes of jet rattling their walls to the foundations every hour.

TURNING POINT: Agent for community investment

9 January 2004

A turning point can be reached without knowing it. I only realised recently how my life had changed and that I had in fact been heading in a new direction for some time.

2004: The year ahead

9 January 2004

After years of growth, 2004 looks set to be a year of belt-tightening in the regeneration sector. Ben Willis, Ben Walker, Nick Loney and Matt Ross cast their eyes over the year ahead.

AGENDA

9 January 2004

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OPINION: Making real life headline news

9 January 2004

Just before Christmas, I spent two days with a journalist and photographer from the Guardian, introducing them to projects in Handsworth and Aston in Birmingham. Their brief was to review progress since the shootings of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis one year ago. The feature was published to coincide with a vigil organised by the victims' mothers, Beverley Thompson and Marcia Shakespeare.

RTPI NEWS: RTPI BULLETIN Board - Planning in time

9 January 2004

Patsy Healey writes: Are you struggling to deal with evaluations, predictions and forecasts?

OPINION: A very seasonal tale of housing market growth

By Sir Peter Hall, professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Email: sir.peter.hall@haynet.com

9 January 2004

The Christmas and New Year period is the season of recycled roast turkey and instant microwave news. You suddenly realise that a large part of the news is manufactured - not in the Hutton Inquiry sense, but simply processed and served in neat chunks to meet the insatiable appetites of the meeja. But at holiday times, the news factories shut.

RTPI NEWS: Drawing on a diverse membership

9 January 2004

More than 140 individuals and organisations have now joined the three ROOMatRTPI associations, says Rebecca Phillips.