The Northumberland Local Plan and Durham Local Plan set out the planning framework for much of the North East and determines much of the land usage for the next 10 years and beyond. The deadlines to have land considered for these plans are approaching fast – on 29 May 2019, the Northumberland Local Plan […]
Dan Newberry
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Many of the RTPI’s English regions have supported the national call to give more powers and resources to planning authorities to tackle the issues surrounding climate change. The campaign – “Resource Planning for Climate Action” – calls on the Government to take climate actions around transport and buildings, as well […]
Local Plans set out the strategic priorities for development of an area and cover commercial, housing, private and public development, including transport infrastructure, along with protection for the local environment. They are made up of a series of documents that should set out clear guidance on what development will and […]
The housing crisis is primarily caused by a lack of affordability. Why aren’t houses affordable? Not because we are poorer than we used to be, but because houses are far more expensive than they used to be. With the government recently being accused of prolonging the national housing crisis by failing […]
A new report published by the Royal Town Planning Institute has found that the planning system needs to change to establish a successful transition to a net zero-carbon future. “Nothing should be planned without demonstrating it is fit to take its place in a net-zero emissions future… It makes no […]
With the voice of Alexa and Siri commonplace in many homes already, you would be forgiven for thinking that our homes are alive? However, what if they went one step further. What if our homes in the future were actually alive – breathing, growing, living and even reproducing? This idea may seem […]
Developers often find it difficult to balance the safe and practical solutions to landscaping, access routes and groundworks with sustaining ecological balance, especially when the footprint area of a development needs to be considered. With the recent guidelines on Biodiversity Net Gain, more than ever the need for providing ecological […]
Leading scientists have discovered that planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. Interestingly, they have made calculations as to how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas. Research estimates that a […]
Four decades ago councils were responsible for the creation of 40% of all new houses. By the end of 2017 that had fallen to just over 2%. The ‘right to buy’ movement and the transfer of council properties to housing associations meant an overall depletion in housing stock. Most of the […]
Cycle lanes have been in the news recently as many opponents to the idea have been using misguided arguments against them. For all the (slight) progress in some UK cities over mass cycling, we are still at a stage where opposing groups will state falsehoods about bike lanes as if […]