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Localism and Regeneration

By admin on December 14, 2010

So now we have the Bill and we know about the money for local government. How can we deliver regeneration in this new context? Local is the right starting point UKR is a strong supporter of localism – by which we mean driving forward change in a way that is tailored to the circumstances of […]

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Forward or Back?

By rico on November 28, 2010

At first it was right in front of our eyes: ‘Localism’. Everywhere we turned it was there in the printed word or ministerial mantra. Now I’m starting to need binoculars to see where local has gone. RDAs split the country into nine and that, we were told, was far too distant from the places, communities […]

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The Great LEP Forward

By rico on November 19, 2010

Such a rich seam of jottings awaits us about LEPs, the world without RDAs and snippets from life after regions. Progress so far has 24 initial LEP proposals going forward whilst the rest vary between (a) a nod to keep trying, (b) go back to the drawing board and (c) Lancashire. Congratulations to all for […]

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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.

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.

Thames Gateway (n)

January 13, 2011

A slightly silly name (how can a gateway be 40 miles long ?) for a blameless and still largely unknown part of the south east where the standard of living is shockingly below the rest of the region for a surprisingly large proportion of the 1.5m population, and which, with thoughtful long term planning and investment could become a much better and more attractive place to live and relieve the development pressure on other more congested locations elsewhere; but which had the misfortune to become a focus of Government action, and a battleground between ill informed brownfield romantics, development fetishists, regeneration fantasists and disaster junkies.

Win (vb)

January 13, 2011

As in to ‘win’ a planning consent: to receive permission in the normal way, usually for a particularly meretricious proposal from a particularly desperate planning authority. Rumours that the new National Planning Framework, trailed in the Localism Bill, will introduce a ‘Strictly’ style talent show format into the process are as yet unfounded.

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