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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

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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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RGF

By admin on 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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Environmental Impact Assessment

By admin on 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 [...]

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To ‘win’ planning consent

By admin on February 12, 2012

Exactly when planning consents ceased to be granted, and begun to be ‘won’, is difficult to establish, but it there does seem to be a telling alignment with the arrival and ascendance of ‘X Factor’ and similar TV shows . Reports that DCLG are considering adopting a phone -in celebrity-led system of planning decision making [...]

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Market failure

January 20, 2011

(n) a useful term generally deployed in a fairly indiscriminate way when attempting to attract or justify public funds. In fact, as classical economists will tell us, markets neither fail or succeed, they simply operate, with varying levels of efficiency, in the interests of those with the greatest market power - i.e. those with the resources, or 'the rich'. Paradoxically therefore, poor areas are not the consequence of market failure, because other  areas are doing very well out of the same market process. The regeneration solution to this is not environmental improvements, but social revolution, but this has yet to be introduced into the Treasury Green book process.

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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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To 'win' planning consent

February 12, 2012

Exactly when planning consents ceased to be granted, and begun to be 'won', is difficult to establish, but it there does seem to be a telling alignment with the arrival and ascendance of 'X Factor' and similar TV shows . Reports that DCLG are considering adopting a phone -in celebrity-led system of planning decision making as part of a new neighbourhood approach 'to make planning more exciting', have not been denied by Ministers, although stories that Simon Cowell might be enobled in the next Honours List to take charge of this are as yet unconfirmed

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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 take pla...

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Driving 

January 20, 2011

(vb) good regeneration never simply occurs, or takes place, it is driven, as in 'driving forward the creation of a new market led tech based new innovation economy for (perm any place out of several hundred)'. In the tradition of regeneration, the amount of driving is usually in inverse proportion to the progress actually acheived. Often it is explicitly 'driven forward' - which tends to means that, in fact, it is likely to end up some distance behind where it started. It is understood that the Localism Bill is introducing the new Coalition concept of 'driving regeneration backward', where it may well have significant success

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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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Urban village (n)

January 13, 2011

A collection of residential blocks even more tightly packed than usual, and generally to be found in improbable locations hitherto deemed unfit for human habitation (cf Millennium Village, Olympic Village)

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