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English Heritage is updating the Placecheck method for the era of neighbourhood planning. A free workshop in Newark on Thurs 16 Feb will test the new materials. Contact Rob Cowan to book your free place: rob@urbandesignskills.com or phone 0797 004 8554. For details, read more...
There is a right way and a wrong way of designing, Alexander tells the Urban Design Group.
Someone once said: ‘Urban design is 75 per cent parking, 15 per cent working out where to put the bins, and 10 per cent everything else.’
At least half of what anyone needs to know about highway risk.
'I never knew we had rivers,' he said.
Considering proposals on a case-by-case basis is not planning
From housing and local government minister Grant Shapps’ call for the building of garden cities to Tim Leunig's proposal to capture betterment through land auctions.
Just when you thought that the government hated planning, up jumps housing and local government minister Grant Shapps to call for the building of garden cities.
Furore in the planning profession about the Lib Dem communities minister Andrew Stunell’s declaration that ‘planning isn’t brain surgery’. How dare he?
Remember eco-towns? With due fanfare Gordon Brown announced a programme of building them in 2007 in the early days of his premiership as a Big Idea, and forgot it, probably, two minutes after he had left the press conference.
