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Bypassing politics won’t work
Today Sir John Armitt proposed the creation of an independent body to tackle Britain’s poor record on the planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects. Sir John has a strong pedigree, having chaired the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Planning Panic
Tagged National Infrastructure Commission, Sir John Armitt
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It’s not rubbish that needs more room
It’s easy to fall out of the habit of blogging. Eric Pickles has enticed me back to the keyboard. Communities and Local Government Minister Eric Pickles wants to tackle the menace of multiplying bins on our streets. He has … Continue reading
Booming London gets new lines
More trains are coming online – but plans for more planes are still up in the air. Yesterday the proposed routes for Crossrail 2 went into public consultation. This £16bn project will create fast new north-south connections through the capital. … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Planning Panic, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris Johnson, Crossrail 2
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Concrete-on-Sea
St Leonard’s-on-Sea in East Sussex was laid out as a new town in the 19th Century Perhaps ‘genteel housing development’ better describes architect James Burton’s original plans for St Leonard’s. Today, what’s left of Burton’s scheme has been absorbed into … Continue reading
Another go at new towns
Are new towns proof that the road to hell is paved with good intentions? I’ve always been fascinated by new towns. New towns are about making new starts. They give us a chance to begin again, and do things better … Continue reading
Stansted gets a lift
Stansted, London’s third airport, always seemed destined for greater things Architects Foster and Partners saw the brown field site as an opportunity to build a new kind of airport. They created a magnificent airy glass structure with a ‘floating’ roof … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Transport
Tagged Boris Island, Boris Johnson, Heathrow, Sir Howard Davies, Stansted, Stop Stansted Expansion
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Flight delayed
The Coalition and Labour want to defer a decision about London’s airports until 2015: it can’t wait that long Yesterday the Prime Minister announced an independent inquiry into the future of London’s airports. Sir Howard Davies’s team will not report … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Planning Panic, Transport
Tagged Airports, Boris Island, Boris Johnson, Heathrow, Sir Howard Davies, Thames Hub
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Chocks away!
The overdue debate on the future of London’s airports is finally taking off. I’ve been blogging for about a year, and my most consistent topic is transport and the need to take grown-up and very urgent decisions about the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Planning Panic, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris Island, Heathrow, Heathwick, Thames Hub
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New towns need a bigger dream than ‘green’
If desperately-needed new towns are to take root, and win popular support, planners need to come up with something more inspiring than carbon-neutral houses. Derwenthorpe, near York, is a case in point. Launched by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust in … Continue reading
Midlands mega-city proposed to ‘obliterate’ countryside
Yesterday The Sunday Telegraph revealed a plan to “exploit the new and highly controversial” National Planning Policy Framework” to build up to 100,000 homes on green belt land in the Midlands. This development would “obliterate the open countryside … to … Continue reading
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