Town and Country Planning

'THE GOVERNMENT has accepted the case set out in the Barker Review for a step-change in housing supply.'...

ROUGHLY 18 MONTHS after the report of Kate Barker's Review of Housing Supply, the Government has published its...

DISCUSSION of policies for shaping urban Britain can easily become a disconnected list of things to do. At...

THE CONCEPT of a polycentric city-region, acting as a northern counter-balance to London, as a big player on...

IMPLICIT in these fundamental changes is the hope that, even without specific integrating mechanisms, the agendas of local...

More and Better Homes Summit--Where Do You Want to Live? TCPA Conference, London, 26 October 2005 IN FEBRUARY...

AS THE ONE who led the UK negotiating team on the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), I am...

CLIFF GUY'S ARTICLE in the November issue of Town & Country Planning ('Stop-go policy') is correct in identifying...

THE CITY of Rome is the latest city to dim its lights to prevent light pollution obscuring the...

TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT models assume that people follow jobs. However, there is increasing evidence that jobs in fact follow...

HOMEWORKING is increasing: the Future Foundation think-tank puts the figure at 2.5 million people working from home either...

* 5.12 Planning: The ODPM publishes Consultation Paper on New Planning Policy Statement 3 (PPS3): Housing. The consultation...

SINCE I last wrote in this journal about 'food deserts', (1) the focus of attention has widened. As...

JUST BEFORE the 2005 Christmas recess, the Planning etc. (Scotland) Bill was presented to the Scottish Parliament by...

IN DECEMBER 2005 the Government embarked upon a major consultation exercise, producing a number of documents, linked in...

MORE THAN four months after Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, things are becoming clear. First,...