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ARTICLES brings you the texts of a selection of articles published in recent issues of Planning in London.
NOTE: more recent issues have selected articles attached as dowloadable .pdf files. Go to Archive and check contents of relevant issue, or see Latest Issue.
Articles and Opinion leaders from PiL 55 October 2005
Robert Gordon Clark from PiL 54
General Election, London -
All to play for in local elections 2006
General Election results in London are traditionally seen as a reflection of voting patterns nationwide. Labour's landslide in 1997 was reflected in the capital with wins in 57 out of the 74 constituencies, whilst in 2001, when the Conservatives failed to claw back many seats nationally, only two seats in London turned blue. fuller version ...more
...pdf of article in PiL 54
History & structure of the London terrace house
by David Johncox of ABA ....pdf
Call for competition and sanctions if fees rise
Following its success in influencing urgent changes to the appeals system, the Association of Consultant Architects remains concerned about the imminent increases in planning fees...more
UDAL conference report (ePiL October 2004)
Creating Successful Communities by Judith Ryser
The good news is that design quality matters and is not simply 'fluffy on top'. If the Minister of State for Transport Tony McNulty who has just moved from being 'Minister of design champions and joined-up government' at the ODPM it must be true.
Or at least good design has the blessing of the government. The question is how to persuade the 'money making machines', developers, land owners and financiers of that?...more
opinion
If a building is structurally sound, meets the building and fire regulations, and appears suitable to the user for the purpose he wishes to use it for, and the use causes no annoyance to neighbours, what right does the local council have to dictate how someone who has paid to do so should use that property? This is the civil rights issue at the heart of the live-work debate...more
The sudden but predicted meltdown of the appeals system (see our story below) throws more power back onto local planning authorities...more
Fees Planning fees to rise up to 185%
Planning fees for large schemes are planned to increase from £11,000 to £28,500 in April next year with planning authorities that meet their targets for determining major applications winning the right to increase the new fees by a further 10% to help them meet more of their costs, planning minister Keith Hill has announced...more
Toward evidence-based urban design
By Tim Stonor, managing director and Chris Stutz, associate director of Space Syntax Ltd.
We have all become aware of the Government's desire to deliver sustainable communities in the UK 'communities that can stand on their own feet and adapt to the changing demands of modern life'.
This aspiration has been recently evinced in the ODPM's Communities Plan and the Thames Gateway and Northern Way initiatives, and it is also the topic of the Summit 2005 conference planned for next year...more
PLANNING: recent publications and press releases gol (July-SEPT 2004)
This document lists:
1. ODPM/ GOL publications during May September 2004
2. ODPM documents out for consultation May September 2004
3 ODPM documents in the pipeline
Save CABEs soul
Who would be the best people to head up a body dedicated to improving architecture and the built environment? Shouldnt it be the people who have spent a working life doing just that, in the service of the subject that either chose them, or they chose out of interest?...more
The truth about London
It was an emotional experience listening to Danish architect Jan Gehl list whats wrong with the public realm in central London like finally finding a psychiatrist, after many expensive inconclusive bouts of analysis, who clearly understands you. Why does it take a Dane to tell us what we all know and suffer from in central London?...more
Alastair Darling interviewed by Peter Riddell in PiL 44
Architects know why? – by Brian Waters from PiL 44
Robert Adam: How to make a planning application
Dump 'dumbing down' says John Assael
Design for a greater London: Simon Foxall
Greater London Authority: contacts from PiL 37 Directory
Robert Bargery – The value of urban design [CABE] PiL 37
Richard Rogers:his first formal response to the Urban White Paper
OPINION leaders from recent PiLs
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