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Planning applications must include a sustainability checklist

26 September 2008

From this week, all planning applications for housing made to Brighton and Hove City Council will have to include a sustainability checklist.

Manchester to take single levy position

26 September 2008

Either all ten of the local authorities in Greater Manchester will adopt the community infrastructure levy (CIL) or none will, Planning has exclusively been told.

Island planes notion slated

26 September 2008

London mayor Boris Johnson's proposal to replace Heathrow Airport with an island facility in the Thames Estuary was widely derided this week.

London flood levels upped

26 September 2008

Planners in west London boroughs have been warned about developing on flood plains after weather experts revised estimates for water rises in the River Thames.

The truth about traffic

26 September 2008

The causes and effects of increasing traffic and congestion are surrounded by myths and misconceptions, according to findings presented in a recent book discussed by Huw Morris.

Broadway Malyan set to deliver South West housing expansion

26 September 2008

Broadway Malyan has been appointed by North Somerset Council to prepare strategic masterplans for two large-scale urban communities in the South West.

Call for move south slated

15 August 2008

North and south have united in deriding a report advocating the end of regeneration spending in northern towns in favour of massive housing expansion in the south.

Policy clash cited in climate plan report

1 August 2008

MPs have concluded that contradictions in cross-governmental planning policy are hampering efforts to tackle climate change.

Regional leaders forum takes North West forward

18 July 2008

The North West took a major leap ahead of the rest of the UK this week with the launch of a regional leaders forum.

Forward-looking region knows true value of public sector staff

By Huw Morris

18 July 2008

They do things differently in the North West.