Changing the Game

By admin on March 6, 2012

UK Regeneration today names Nottingham as first pilot ‘village’ in its programme to deliver 20000 homes by 2020. Speaking at MIPIM Jackie Sadek said: “We’re regenerating regeneration.  It’s that simple.  The old models no longer work and we need to find new ones quickly.  It is clear that we need to move regeneration decisively into [...]

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UKR names Nottingham as first pilot ‘village’

By admin on March 6, 2012

Game-Changing Moment in Regeneration UKR launches plans for its model of “village” developments throughout the country Nottingham’s Sandfield Village will bring 200 new homes, together with local amenities and jobs UK Regeneration (UKR) today launched its model for private sector-led regeneration in UK cities and towns, at an industry-leaders event hosted by Jones Lang LaSalle [...]

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Five principles for Building a Better Britain

Five principles for Building a Better Britain

By admin on August 14, 2011

How should those of us concerned with regeneration react to unrest on the streets and turbulence in the financial markets? The prime minister and the mayor of London returned from holiday with the aim of visibly restoring order. “Action this day,” was Churchill’s mantra. Belatedly, perhaps, but that was the political objective this week, too. [...]

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UKR reacts to the unrest and riots

UKR reacts to the unrest and riots

By admin on August 9, 2011

Jackie Sadek, Chief Executive of UK Regeneration(UKR) gives her reaction to the unrest and riots seen across London and the UK and argues that the long term task of regenerating communities must not be deflected by the events of the last few days. Jackie Sadek (UKR CEO) said: “We had hoped not to see history [...]

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Green Belt (n)

January 13, 2011

An invention which served to bring the urban evolution of the UK to a juddering halt as first the automobile, then the decline of industry, and now the growth of technology placed increasingly impossible demands on its obsolete urban shape and structure.

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Olympic Legacy (n)

January 13, 2011

A vibrant (qv) and growing branch of urban theology whose core belief is that spending a very, very, very large amount of money on sporting venues in a very, very, very, small part of the country, will bring potentially limitless benefits to a potentially limitless number and range of people, or possibly Tottenham Hotspur

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S106

February 12, 2012

A largely futile attempt by planners to get developers to cough up for all the glamorous things the developers promised at the time of the application but had no intention or capacity to deliver. Often part of an attempt by planners to pre-empt a revised planning application.

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Green chains

January 20, 2011

(n) A ubiquitous concept based on the odd assumption that people, on visiting one park, will want to move directly on to several more in sequence, provided they are linked by tree lined streets. Believed to be derived from observation of mating voles, but not of any obvious known human behaviour. Nevertheless they provide enjoyment, and employment, for green minded planners, and create attractive images on maps. No green chain has been known to have been identified in the real world

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Environmental Impact Assessment

February 12, 2012

An earnest and exhaustive combination of the obvious, the speculative and the impossible-to-know. Believed to be the origin of the phrase ' unable to see the wood for the trees' .  Analysis in America suggests that they are approaching the point where the carbon footprints of the larger EIAs, which need to be transported in semi -trucks, will require an EIA of their own.

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RGF

February 14, 2012

The latest product from the BIS ‘RAGPAG’ or Random Growth Policy Acronym Generator. Usefully, provided the name is impressive enough, there is no requirement for a policy thus generated to ‘do what it says on the tin’ or indeed to have any practical realworld value at all.  See also Enterprise Zones.

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A revised planning application

February 12, 2012

A proposal by developers to remove from a consented scheme all the bits of a scheme they always knew would be too difficult, or expensive to do, leaving them with the bits that make the most money, and the community with a half baked result.

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