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The latest blogs from Planning's team of opinion-makers, including industry insider Chris Brown and practitioner Cliff Hague, with the sharpest analysis and comment on the planning news that matters
PlanningBlog
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Planning inquiry gives psychology a starring role
johngeoghegan
22 May 2012 14:45:13
The worlds of planning and psychology rarely intersect much. But a recent appeal hearing...
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ArcelorMittal completed, controversy continues
michaeldonnelly
11 May 2012 11:27:34
Work has been completed on the controversial ArcelorMittal tower in the London 2012 Olympic...
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Pickles on John Ford
michaeldonnelly
09 May 2012 11:42:21
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has presented a Radio 4 documentary celebrating the work of...
Regeneration & Renewal Blog
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My regional identity crisis
Adam Branson
13 April 2012 14:39:09
A trip to Middlesbrough last week has left me confused. For years I have...
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Trouble defining troubled
Adam Branson
29 March 2012 12:45:28
This week saw the publication of the final report from the Independent Riots...
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Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder at King’s Cross
Adam Branson
21 March 2012 12:45:58
As has often been observed, architecture is the only form of art that we...
Tim Stansfeld Blog
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Two cheers for the Portas Pilots
21 May 2012 09:46:51
Over 200 years ago Napoleon Bonaparte famously described England as a nation of shopkeepers....
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Ostriches, superlambananas and local distinctiveness
03 May 2012 14:47:49
“So what’s with the multi-coloured ostriches?” I asked my hosts in the Romanian city...
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Green living in the Black Forest
17 April 2012 10:37:32
“Atomkraft? Nein danke.” For the fashionable environmentalist of thirty years ago there were few...
David Marlow Blog
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The case for a ‘local growth pact’…
11 May 2012 14:42:24
One of the most striking political contrasts of early May was between Presidential elections...
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Moving your ‘Town Team’ up the Local Economic Growth league tables….
29 April 2012 10:19:55
I started my first blog this year on town centres ( Portas Pilots…town centres...
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Government’s approach to High Streets is a victory of PR over the substance of delivering future Town Centre economic success
24 April 2012 14:23:59
Now that the dust has settled on the Budget, NPPF and Government’s...
Chris Brown Blog
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The New Politics of Regeneration and Planning?
08 May 2012 09:06:53
I’m not a great fan of party politics, usually taking the view ‘Don’t vote...
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Planning System – Fit For Purpose?
30 April 2012 17:51:14
I’m slowly coming the conclusion that the planning system is not fit for purpose...
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Blog – Custom Building the Big Society
22 April 2012 14:02:43
As the NewBuy debacle continues to embarrass Government (and the HBF), Grant Shapps staged...
Cliff Hague's World View
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Warsaw: place identities and the European dream
21 May 2012 17:09:37
Monument to the Warsaw Uprising Warsaw is sprucing itself up for the European...
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Participatory 3D Mapping – a tool for Disaster Risk Reduction
15 May 2012 09:22:05
Using P3DM in The Philippines. Photo courtesy of Dr.J.C.Gaillard. Natural disasters continue to...
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World Urban Forum e-Dialogues – share your planning ideas with the world
07 May 2012 15:25:14
Can space be made available for healthy urban growth without sprawl? The UN-Habitat...
Tim Williams Blog
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Wales is rich in self delusion if nothing else: how best to measure wealth and poverty in the Principality
30 April 2012 13:33:24
This is beginning to get me angry. Someone from the Welsh Government is obviously...
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Sydney: a housing system in acute stress
11 April 2012 10:45:15
I’ve been busy. I’ve co-written (with a colleague called Sean Macken) a report on...
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Wales! Wales?: parts of my homeland are now poorer than Romania….
15 March 2012 14:38:47
The headline from the Welsh press tells you everything and does not exaggerate: ’New...
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