Erica Mortimer, CgMs
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Planning: proposals for south-west highlighted under new guidance
With the new south-West Regional guidance under consideration, planning authorities in the Bristol area have been pressing for separate sub-regional studies for the more prosperous northern part of the region.
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Planning: brownfield development proposals are outlined
The approval of funding for the Birmingham Northern Relief Road was agreed last week.
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Planning Preserving Westminster peace?
Westminster Council aims to stop late-night noise by introducing planning restrictions.
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Planning: local authorities welcome new development proposals
English Partnerships is providing funding from its investment programme for development in northern Manchester. It is hoped that the scheme will provide competitive priced housing to encourage people back into the area.
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Planning: need for new, sustainable communities
Some counties such as Cambridgeshire face potential problems such as an overheated economy, a shortage of housing land, a shortage of labour and an insatiable demand for new hi- tech business space. Cambridge has identified potential new settlements that reduce the need for commuting into the city. These settlements will ...
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Planning Engaged in mortar combat
Authorities are under pressure to agree consent for development as the area grows.
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Planning: controversial decision-making
Cumbria County Council was recently in the news when it approved a new processing plant for British Nuclear Fuels.
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Planning: Inconsistency in the greenbelt
Warwickshire County Council, in conjunction with Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council, is planning the regeneration of a 1950s miners’ estate at Camp Hill, Nuneaton, by turning it into an urban village.
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Planning Looking to the future
With West End councils reviewing their policies, there’s never been a better time to influence planning .
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Planning
The government is now talking about even bigger ‘super regions’. A new body to oversee planning strategy for East Anglia, London and the south-east could be in place within two years. Its role is supposedly to avoid inter-regional conflicts. Proposals for a Greater Serplan have so far fallen on stoney ...
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Planning
Most boroughs are responding to the government’s targets to achieve more housing in urban areas and to develop housing at higher densities. Islington, for instance, is revising its upper limit from 250 to 400 habitable rooms per hectare in appropriate locations. Other boroughs are also identifying the need ...
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Housebuilders face upheaval with new planning guidance
Last week the Government published radical new planning guidance that will introduce the sequential test for housing developments. This report explains how PPG3 will affect housebuilders
