All articles by Sarah Yeoman, CgMS
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Markets
Planning: impact of car parking restrictions and residential demand
A development brief looking into the future of the British Gas site to the south of Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham, should go to Committee for approval in September before being adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance. Public consultation on the draft document ended in May. The draft identifies various constraints including the ...
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Housing needs met without large-scale land
Although local authorities in Surrey have the draft regional guidance figures for housing distribution, for many councils the immediate goal is still to achieve Local Plan conformity with the 1994 Structure Plan recommendations. In Reigate and Banstead, the first alterations to the Deposit Plan focus on Horley, which must ...
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Markets
Planning: is there an opening for another factory outlet centre?
The ceramics industry in north Staffordshire continues its decline, and now it looks as though this will affect first division football team Port Vale, which may lose its training ground to B-class employment uses. More than 25ha (61 acres) of Green and brownfield land at Tunstall, previously home to ...
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Cheshire planning Keeping pace with developments
Local authorities in Cheshire are encouraging public involvement in plans for the future.