All Planning articles – Page 7
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Features
Can we design out sexual violence from our towns?
In the latest for our Building [Re]Design series, Pam Alexander outlines how digital tools can help designers and placemakers create safer streets and parks
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Features
Analysis: How to build 5,000 homes in Middle England – and keep the neighbours happy
Urban & Civic is only 12 years old but this private equity-backed property start-up is turning heads with its approach to master development. Elizabeth Hopkirk visited a former RAF base in Cambridgeshire to see the business model in action
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News
Fifteen-minute city vision wins €100,000 architecture prize
Carlos Moreno lauded by Obel Award judges for sustainable urban future model
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News
Gove criticises housing design while backing brownfield regeneration and beauty agenda
First hints of new housing secretary’s thinking emerge but he fails to address planning reform in set-piece conference speech
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Gove said to have ordered ‘complete rethink’ on planning reforms
Fellow cabinet minister says party ‘looking again’ at proposals
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Government should fund neighbourhood planning, says think tank
Report by Localis on planning reform comes in advance of first speech by new housing secretary Michael Gove
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High Court to rule on bid to quash planning deregulation
Campaigners challenge government’s expansion of permitted development rights
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Opinion
Only the chosen few can walk the ‘starchitect’ tightrope
To succeed, an audacious idea needs to be sold with charm and executed with self-confidence, says David Rudlin. And often that is still not enough
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News
Tulip ruling pushed to next month as Gove is handed decision
Reshuffle blamed for three-week delay
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Convert existing buildings to boost ‘left behind’ communities, says report
Former Number 10 advisor calls for mass transfer of empty buildings to local communities
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Features
A ‘mountain of priorities’ in Gove’s in-tray
Planning reform, building safety and housing numbers will compete for attention from new housing secretary Michael Gove
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Features
Michael Gove: his stance on housing, planning and the environment
A few pointers to the new housing secretary’s views on key policy areas
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News
Chris Pincher stays as housing minister within ‘levelling up’ department
Beefed-up department to work alongside levelling up taskforce
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Opinion
It’s back: a true celebration of the depth and breadth of UK architectural work
This year’s wide range of shortlisted buildings makes it harder than ever to pick a Stirling Prize winner, but Ben Flatman believes there are two main contenders
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Opinion
Building your own home is normal in most of Europe – and they don’t even need Kevin McCloud
Can the Bacon Report make self-building less scary? Grand Designs will never be the same, says David Rudlin
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News
Design Council appoints former Cabe chief as director of place
Edward Hobson joins from innovation network KTN
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Features
Living with Beauty promised much but its delivery is falling dangerously short
The government’s planning reforms are inherently contradictory and risk confusing beauty with popularity, writes Ben Derbyshire
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News
Office for Place chief criticised for supporting permitted development
Beauty advocate Nicholas Boys Smith accused of being ’Trojan horse’ for planning deregulation
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Features
Interview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place
There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner
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News
New Office for Place is ‘not Cabe 2’, says government design advisor
Nicholas Boys Smith says body will accredit new local design codes