Issue pil115 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2020
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Pil115 CONTENTS
October-December 2020
5 LEADERS
Doing the sums on London housing;
If we want more subsidised housing we should subsidise it
7 HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE
Competition for a new bridge .PDF
11 OPINIONS
Norman Foster on the future of cities; Propositional planning, Lee Mallett; What is planning for? Nicholas Boys Smith; Use Classes Order, Federica Buricco; Building beautiful, Ben Derbyshire; Bridging the Thames barrier, Paul Finch; Occupier relationships, Carl Whayman; Waste collection, Jonas Törnblom and Tony Yates; The Suburban Taskforce, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros and Lucy Natarajan; White Paper and Use Classes Order, Craig Blatchford and Gareth Fox; Commercial Property, Paul Howells; Permitted Development Rights, Gary Hoban; Airspace development, Mani Khiroya; The Planning White Paper, Iain Gilbey, Jamie Lockerbie and Sue Chadwick; New futures for the workplace, Paul Finch .PDF
30 LETTERS
Mayor of London writes to the SoS on planning system changes;
Zoning town centres from Michael Bach
Wargaming for the Future, from Mark Willingale
Excessive pointless pseudo scrutiny, from Alfred Munkenbeck
Onward and upward not, from Andrew Rogers
32 CLIPBOARD
Action in the Old Kent Road; PD for Freeports; A new safeguarded wharf, Royal Primrose Wharf, to go ahead; Two-stage competition launched for Camden’s ‘high-line’; The City’s new civic hub for justice, policing and commercial activity; £12 billion not enough say boroughs
35 ¡PILLO!
Needing an outfit to match; Only in the unhinged western system; The virtues of virtual architecture; Nicholas Boys Smith to head new body to create local design codes; Steve’s Bon Mots
36 PLANNING PERFORMANCE
Decisions down 9% so far this year but catching up on lockdown’s 22% drop
41 ANDY ROGERS
Planning spins out of control .PDF
44 LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT FORUM
Planning for the Future and other changes, including Government White Paper reforms; In short, let planners free! – Paul Finch .PDF
54 MODULAR BUILDING
Build Homes, Build Jobs, Build Innovation, Mike De’Ath .PDF
58 HOUSING TARGETS
The Standard Method has produced unlikely figures
London Forum of Amenity Societies, Michael Bach
61 BUILDING SAFETY
Wholesale reform for building control and safety, Stuart Brown
63 PUBLIC REALM
Guiding transformation around Oxford Street, Lucy Musgrave
68 SAVING THE HIGH STREET
The community takeover, Polly Swann and Neil Lee
70 55+ HOUSING COMMUNITIES
A new dawn for housing a more mature city, Lars Christian .PDF
73 THE PLANNING WHITE PAPER
The wrong answers to the wrong questions? Hugh Ellis
76 SUBURBAN LIVING
Reappraising London’s suburbs, Russell Curtis .PDF
79 BOOKS:
Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport, Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari;
The Goddess – La Déesse, Christian Sumi;
Simon Jenkins’ A Short History of London, Reviewed by Nigel Moor
87 DIRECTORY
Planning and Environment Reference Guide
90 SUBSCRIPTION FORM
91 ADVICE
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