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Drakelow regeneration scheme gets planning

30 July 2010 BB Staff

Planning permission is to be granted for a 2,239 home brownfield regeneration scheme

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Nuanced and contextualised

27 July 2010 Jon Reeds

Changes to national planning policy have encouraged those who prefer low-density development to show their hand

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Localism and the cuts: chalk and cheese?

27 July 2010 Ian Grant

At the NLA annual Planning in London conference, practitioners outlined their concerns and suggested some radical solutions

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EIC calls on the Magnificent Seven to save PPS23

27 July 2010 Hugh Mallett

Since taking office, the new Government has indicated its determination to carry out a radical overhaul of the planning system in line with the Open Source Planning green paper

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Revocation of regional strategies raises concerns

26 July 2010 Peter Taylor

On 6 July the coalition Government moved to revoke regional strategies (RSs), with immediate effect

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Greenfield focus and no planning controls for new housing right

23 July 2010 BB Staff

Housing minister Grant Shapps has set out plans to allow communities to ballot whether to increase their housing by 10% without planning consent

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Historic building fears revealed by survey

09 July 2010 BB Staff

English Heritage's annual register reveals that the rate at which historic buildings are being rescued is slowing fast.

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Brownfield industry voices planning concerns

07 July 2010 Ian Grant

Changes to planning guidance and local plans and how they will affect the brownfield community is one of the industry’s current biggest concerns

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Pickles ends regional coordination of planning…

07 July 2010 BB Staff

The communities secretary has revoked English regional strategies.

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…but caution and concern greet regional planning’s end

07 July 2010 BB Staff

Planners are cautious about the end of regional planning but countryside campaigners, who are supposed to be the reason for the policy, fear a vacuum in greenfield and brownfield policy.

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