Issue pil126 JULY-SEPTEMBER 2023

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5 LEADERS .PDF
Hunting the unattainable
A new unfair burden for planners

7 PAUL FINCH
What we should design for

8 NLA TALL BUILDINGS SURVEY 2023

14 OPINION: LEE MALLETT
Don’t smash it, fix it

OPINIONS
15 Artificial Intelligence | Anna Korhonen .PDF
16 Affordable housing | Simon Corp
17 Affordable housing & viability | Simon Ricketts
20 Problems with planning | Dexter Moren
21 London’s ageing population | Alex Child .PDF
23 Affordable housing thresholds | Andrew Golland

27 BRIEFING
Long delay for refreshed NPPF; High-rise office boom as report claims City is ‘busiest it has ever been’; Terry Farrell has set up a £4.6m centre in Newcastle; Up to 125,000 planned London homes face major delays due to two staircase rule; Homes England's new strategic plan more "place-based”; Best new buildings in London; Labour government would rethink the planning system and tackle the taboo of green belt development;

31 ¡PILLO!
No need for huge dollops of cash - just modest dollops of common sense; London’s air is cleaner than any time in living memory; Ofsted-style ratings
for housing developments; Landline, a major new work by artist Sean Scully RA

32 PLANNING PERFORMANCE .PDF
Latest planning performance by English districts and London boroughs:
planning applications in England between January to March 2023: numbers of applications and decisions continue to fall sharply

36 LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT FORUM .PDF
Design in planning Led by Government Head of Architecture
Industrial and logistics uses in London
Examples of multi storey mixed use and flexible buildings

53 ANDREW ROGERS
Rampant Acronymania Deters All Readers

FEATURES
54 London Office Crane Survey Summer 2023
56 Public Rental Homes | Peter Bill .PDF
59 Inclusive communities | Daniel Leon .PDF
62 Community led infill development | Tom Noble .PDF

BOOKS
65 Play the Game How the Olympics came to East London | Michael Owens and Ralph Ward
66 The Exploding Galaxy by Jill Drower .PDF

69 PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT REFERENCE GUIDE

72 SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM

73 SHAPING THE WORLD
Foster in Paris reviewed by Paul Finch .PDF

79 ADVICE .PDF

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