Tanner on ... best models for town layouts to ease congestion

Roger Tanner, strategic planning and urban renewal manager for Caerphilly County Borough Council, Planning, 19 December 2003

A recent ODPM report (Planning, 31 October, p4) claims that the idea of polycentric urban development is beginning to influence planning policy in the UK, four years after the European Spatial Development Perspective, which enshrined the idea, was endorsed by the EU's member countries. I think not. Centralism is too deeply ingrained in UK land-use and transport planning, officially endorsed by the ubiquitous sequential tests and lack of enthusiasm for new settlements.

The debate in the UK about the most desirable geometric configuration for urban development seems to have died with the end of the new towns. The linear city,...

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