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A call to action

By paul on January 31, 2011

At last we have a ministerial statement about regeneration – the shortest in 30 years but none the worse for that. Grant Shapps and Andrew Stunnell were in Salford today and have been explaining how the Coalition’s policies create a framework for action. Jackie Sadek, our Chief Executive at UK Regeneration, has welcomed the stateement: [...]

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The suburban impresario

By admin on January 31, 2011

This is part 7 of 13 in the series Suburban Spotlight

This is part 7 of 13 in the series Suburban SpotlightThe problem with accountability is that it needs to be more than just a system, a set of processes, a rulebook. It needs to be a state of mind. If we are to entrust accountability to a contract – legal or social – we would [...]

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Real accountability for executive action

By admin on January 28, 2011

This is part 8 of 13 in the series Suburban Spotlight

This is part 8 of 13 in the series Suburban SpotlightIn my last piece I promised to offer some thoughts on how a proper system of accountability might be developed in the context of the Big Society, or at least the localism agenda, so I I’d better get on with it. The principles I will [...]

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UKR is about delivery: demonstrating how to transform places with purpose built private rented homes with a mix of other uses. We are in discussion with local authorities across the country. We welcome conversations about possible projects. There are very clear criteria in our “Framer”. This has 9 simple criteria covering: the right site; the right approach; the right way forward. Download our one page document “Framing the right collaboration” and contact us on projects@ukregeneration.org.uk

A New Quarter for… (np)

January 13, 2011

A desperate area of usually remote vacant and contaminated land, hitherto occupied by noxious and noisome activities, excluded from the historic development of any urban area, and generally unknown and unloved by all bar Iain Sinclair. Often found accompanied by a fantasy masterplan detaching the area from any relationship to its history or surroundings, and prepared by an ennobled architect who is sometimes good at designing buildings but untested at large scale urban design, and a glossy brochure full of images of improbable comparisons to real places in other parts of the world produced by an increasingly desperate and deluded development company.

Brownfield Land

February 12, 2012

Land which remains undeveloped for very good, rational reasons,usually to do with contamination, lousy environment, unliveability, remoteness or inaccessibility, but whose development priority, at all costs, remains the core article of faith among planning theologists. The inevitable consequence of this has been that very little development now takes place and where it does it is usually bad. Good development of brownfield land is certainly possible, but is contingent on a combination of time, imagination, expertise, an unbankruptable developer, and generous public subsidy – all of which are in very short supply (..outside the Olympic Park…) . In the absence of any wiser approach to the issue, we can therefore expect very little development, let alone good development, to tak...

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.

‘Outline’ planning consent

February 12, 2012

A term, now used ironically, to apply to the process whereby a quick decision on the simple principle of development has been turned into a mammoth existentialist drama which is only resolved, if ever, long after the conditions which spawned the original development proposal have long since departed. Often closely associated with s106

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