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6 May: Planning for Change: Strategies for Effective Planning Policies. Organiser: Neil Stewart Associates. Venue: London. Fee: £189-399. Details: (tel) 020 7324 4330. 6-7 May: Urban Legacies Conference. Organiser:...

Faith Groups: Beyond belief

30 April 2004

The Government wants to involve faith groups in publicly-funded community work, but a lack of central policy means funders don't always practice what Whitehall preaches. Nick Loney asks what happens when regeneration meets religion.

Skills: Inside the mind of Egan

30 April 2004

Last week, Sir John Egan finally published his vision of the future of skills development in regeneration. Jon Sawyer explains his verdict.

A blueprint for the future of Scotland

30 April 2004

A wide range of areas has been identified as ripe for development in the newly issued national planning framework for Scotland. Marino Donati reports

Skills review leaves much to be desired

30 April 2004

The Egan review's focus on defining sustainable communities and generic professional skills makes for disappointing results, writes Huw Morris It's been the best part of a year in gestation. It was supposed to offer a route map for the skills that the built environment professional will need for the 21st century. Yet now that the Egan review has finally reported, one question looms large. Has it come up with anything new?

Interview: Developing passions

30 April 2004

As the head of a leading development company, Roger Madelin tells Chris Griffin about his approach to the business of creating places that people can really enjoy

Opinion: Employers lead jobless to work

30 April 2004

According to Social Exclusion Unit statistics, over 40 per cent of adults in deprived areas have no qualifications compared to the national average of about 26 per cent. Jobcentre Plus spends about £1 billion a year on training. To date, however, there has been only patchy success in chipping away at this skills deficit.

Opinion: Fyson on ... the need to save the best features of suburban life

30 April 2004

The new suburban studies research centre announced last week by Kingston University will perform a useful function if it demythologises suburbia and encourages policy-makers to recognise its diversity and strengths as well as its problems. Suburbs are not merely physically and socially uniform swathes of development.

Halman on ... why you should follow the advice of your inspector

30 April 2004

Last week's rejection by the government of one of the House of Lords amendments to the planning bill is welcome. Backtracking on the issue of binding inspector's reports would have removed one of the few genuinely worthwhile aspects of the reform package.

Opinion: UK's sunbelt city offers remedies for resurgence

30 April 2004

A horde of the world's top urban experts descended on the London School of Economics last week. Generously funded by the Leverhulme Foundation - whose founding father William Hesketh Lever built the model village of Port Sunlight and paid for the first university town planning department, at Liverpool, in 1910 - they'd come for two and a half days of debate about the Resurgent City. Their only small problem was whether they were peering at a mirage. At the end, they'd reassured themselves - perhaps because they'd enjoyed some inter-session sunshine walking around London, which everyone agreed is a resurgent kind of place. The residual nagging question was what was happening elsewhere. Most British cities, they were reminded, are still losing people, even though they're seeing central renaissance.