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Theme : planning
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Challenge Yvette
Rather predictably, one of the key tensions to emerge from our discussions with planning departments relates to the governments rather Janus-faced approach to planning.On the one hand, there are incentives for local authroities to speedily process applications within eight weeks and, now, to deliver housing targets more quicky. On the other is the demand that authorities put more effort into community engagement - a clumsy way of saying that people's vision for their area should be central to...
from : petebradwell
26th July 2006
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Telegraph | Opinion | Whitehall, not local councils, is to blame for our housing crisis
Housing growth
from : petebradwell
25th July 2006
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Workshop and Narrative
We've been developing our Future Planners story for a while now - a process that really began with the writing of the 'Production Values' chapter. And the most recent session was last week's workshop here at Demos (pictures in the Flickr feed on the right). Thanks to everyone that came and withstood the intense heat and brought real skill, experience and insight to a compelling day's work.With that workshop and through our initial thoughts from the interviews and case-studies, we have produced...
from : petebradwell
24th July 2006
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WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: World Environment Day --
Good post on environmental planning
from : petebradwell
21st July 2006
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The Observer | Business | Empires bid to strike back in stores war
Big versus little retail in the the planning system.
from : petebradwell
17th July 2006
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Welcome to Planning Summer School
A lot of interesting and insightful papers on all manner of planning issues.
from : petebradwell
14th July 2006
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Neighbourhoods: Formal and informal in public space
"Like a lot of people I dislike barriers and traffic lights both as a pedestrian and as a driver, because they seem like a mutually-inconvenient and extreme solution to different forms of movement because we cannot find a functional compromise.
One reason motorist and pedestrian often haven't found a compromise is because official systems need to be able to apportion blame if things go wrong and therefore need to rule out ambiguity."
from : petebradwell
14th July 2006
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Guardian Unlimited Business | | 'A dirty and dangerous path'
Quotes about the government's energy review.
from : petebradwell
13th July 2006
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And in the seventh month...
...there was nuclear power. Or, at least, talk about nuclear power.The government's energy report has, to nobody's surprise, signalled that rebuilding Britain's nuclear power capacity will be necessary to keep our TVs burning and our Macbooks charged. And the Prime Minister confirmed what we all feared - that 'wishful thinking won't keep the lights on'. And there was me crossing my fingers...But aside from the rights and wrongs (wrongs, wrongs) of investing in nuclear energy, there are the...
from : petebradwell
12th July 2006
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I'm trying to sleep here...
Cities are loud. My world cup experience has already been defined by eerie sonic mash-ups of John Motson, Sainsbury’s delivery trucks and screaming emergency response vehicles.But silence-lovers of London rejoice (Quietly). Artist Simon Elvins has sketched a beautiful ‘Silent London’ map, detailing the pockets of quiet that hide seductively amidst the capital’s cacophony.Should we expect droves of the sleep-deprived, mattresses and duvets in tow, to hold alternative...
from : petebradwell
11th July 2006
