All articles by Malcolm Honour, CgMS
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Insight
Planning: The Welsh Assembly impact on proposals and appeals
The role of the Welsh Assembly in planning has required the creation of new systems and procedures and these are taking some time to settle in. Following the appointment of Rhodri Morgan as First Minister, the planning and environment functions and the local government functions of the assembly have been ...
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Markets
Planning - Allocation process well advanced
Much of the land needed for development has been identified, with Colchester set for regeneration.
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Markets
Planning: Chelmsford housing and employment allocations for the future
The report of the Panel on the Regional Guidance for the South East, issued at the end of last year, suggested that there should be a strategy for the M11 corridor, making more of the economic potential of London Stansted. The panel recommended a new business park near the airport ...
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Markets
Planning: questioning the future
An inquiry into the new regional guidance for the south-west including Bristol and Swindon is just beginning. One of the issues will be the extent to which Bristol and its adjacent authorities will remain a key focus for development to 2016. Directing more growth to the ...
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Markets
Planning
The most recent Hertfordshire Structure Plan Review, covering the period to 2011, was adopted in 1998. All Hertfordshire districts are now in the process of reviewing their local plans to accommodate these latest structure plan requirements. In most areas, new land needs to be identified for housing and ...
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Markets
Planning
The Warwickshire Structure Plan Examination in Public finished recently. The main issues related to housing numbers and the distribution of housing within the county. The representative of the Government Office gave a clear steer towards meeting the regional guidance housing figures. In practice, the allocations in existing local plans largely ...
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Markets
Planning
Town and country planning is on the list of powers that will be transferred to the Welsh Assembly following the elections next month. It remains to be seen exactly how those powers will be exercised but there is scope to introduce significant changes in the planning system in Wales, relative ...
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Markets
Planning
The West Midlands Regional Guidance, which covers Staffordshire and Shropshire, seeks to move towards a better balance between housing and employment so that jobs are provided near where people live. Staffordshire has produced a draft Structure Plan, which aims to meet that objective. In the north Staffordshire conurbation there is ...
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Markets
Planning
The change in government policy to restrict out-of-town shopping is having a marked effect on the nature of retail proposals. However, there is still significant floorspace coming on stream from earlier approvals and some additional out-of-town schemes are being promoted. Among the recent developments is the McArthur Glen factory outlet ...
