Daily Archives: 22/11/2010

CABE is to be wound up ‘in its present form’ by March 2011 following the loss of its DCMS funding. Statement from CABE: On 20 October, the Government decided as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review to withdraw funding from CABE. This will take … Continue reading →

CABE asked seven public figures to respond to the ideas raised in People and places: public attitudes to beauty. Beauty and public policy  – beauty may be contentious and difficult to define, but it’s also one of the great goods of … Continue reading →

The National Grid and Sheffield City Council have decided to celebrate one of the city’s Brutalist beauties by bathing it in coloured light and creating an ‘artistic focal point on the City’s ring road’. The Moore Street substation was built in the … Continue reading →

The Information Commissioner confirmed today that New Forest District Council has breached the Data Protection Act by publishing the personal data of planning applicants on its website. The news emerged after a New Forest resident complained in 2008 after council staff failed to appropriately … Continue reading →

The long awaited revision of the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) promotes a ‘fabric first’ approach, but stops short of reducing the carbon compliance requirements to achieve levels 5 and 6 this time round. The CSH, which is just published, … Continue reading →

Proposals for a fairer planning fees system are being set out for consultation. At the moment local council taxpayers have been left subsidising the costs of dealing with planning applications. Councils have been unable to recover the true costs of … Continue reading →

Councillors should be freed from restrictions that prevent them from championing local issues, Ministers have asserted. Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has today set out plans to clarify the law so that councillors are able to get on with the … Continue reading →