All Planning articles – Page 20
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News
London borough warns against local authority planning 'penalties'
Lambeth says policy risks exacerbating funding problems at cash-strapped councils
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Opinion
Time to stop going down the garden path and come up with a strategy
Solving the housing crisis is not just a numbers game: it requires proactive planning. Jeff Nottage urges the government to abandon opportunism and get serious
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News
Boris acts to protect London's commercial heartland
Mayor launches planning guidance to restrict office-to-resi conversions
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Opinion
Watch out, planners: You're in the government's crosshairs
Architect-turned-developer Crispin Kelly detects the stamping foot of a crotchety minister demanding, ‘More houses, or else’
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News
London Assembly calls on Boris to end 'dodgy development deals'
London Assembly recommends ending secret planning deals by making developers publish viability assessements
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Kerslake: Even housebuilders doubt government’s housing commitment
Housing Planning Bill attacked by Lords
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Opinion
How the government is killing off the 1947 Town & Country Planning Act
Piece by piece, politicians are dismantling the basic tenets of evidence-based local planning, argues planning expert Duncan Bowie
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Opinion
Dear Greg Clark, how will opening up planning to competition actually work?
Mike Kiely, chair of the Planning Officers Society, examines the implications of allowing private firms to assess planning applications
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Opinion
Does the government have any idea what it is unleashing on the planning system?
The Housing Planning Bill will make planning worse not better, argues former planning inspector David Vickery
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News
Design is critical to chancellor's pledges, warns Duncan
New homes, schools and infrastructure must have design at their heart, says RIBA president
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News
Architects condemn 'dangerous' Housing Bill
Relaxation of planning laws ‘will prioritise speed over quality and yet not give business predictability it wants’
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Planning system grinding to a halt, survey finds
Major schemes in London taking 34 weeks to get to a decision
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Analysis
How the Housing Bill is set to hammer another nail into the coffin of design
US-style zoning will be introduced into the UK through legislation set to be published this week. With serious implications for design quality, shouldn’t we have discussed it first, asks David Blackman
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News
Developers getting away with viability dodges, admits mayor
Johnson expresses frustration over ‘dark art’
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Planning minister warns councils to produce local plans by 2017 - or else
Brandon Lewis says government will take over local plan-making in ‘early 2017’
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News
List of brownfield land for housing in London out by end of year
Database will be used to help identify priority sites and follows Osborne announcement last week
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Osborne rips up planning rules
Chancellor and business secretary Sajid Javid impose housing on councils without local plans