Steve Wilson, CgMs
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Planning: preparation is rife as Scotland exercises new powers
The plan covers the period up to 2011 and extends across the former Strathclyde Regional Council area. It identifies a requirement for a further 5,350 houses between the years 1996 and 2011. In retail terms, the plan identifies a number of locations where additional retail floor space is required.
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Planning: Houses, cinemas and structures
Cinema provision in Oxford is one issue. In October 1998, the secretary of state, following a public inquiry about a leisure development, including a multiplex cinema at Oxpens Road, refused planning permission on visual and design grounds, despite the site being allocated for commercial leisure uses in the adopted Oxford ...
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Planning: local authority reorganisation leads to joint approach
A Joint Structure Plan Unit, advised by planning consultancy Babtie, now oversees the structure plan. Following the publication of a consultation draft in 1999, deposit is expected this autumn, with an Examination in Public to follow in 2001.
