Daily Archives: 03/12/2010

Localism minister Greg Clark has said that the Coalition’s proposed planning reforms will mean a step-change in the role of planners, as they will ‘have much more scope to help local people articulate their vision for their town or village … Continue reading →

The Local Government Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against Christchurch Borough Council over the way it handled amendments to a planning application for a housing development – but also welcomed subsequent action by the local planning authority to mitigate the … Continue reading →

Baroness Hanham CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, recently provided the keynote speech at the Heritage Champions National Conference 2010 (15 November 2010) at the Foundling Museum, London, noting that ‘Conservation of the historic environment is dependent on a robust … Continue reading →

The letter to English Heritage (EH) from the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) informing EH of the new funding regime has been released, and includes directions on allocations and cutbacks, and encouragement to use charitable donations and philanthropy … Continue reading →

A competition to create a new city to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 is launched today. Details of the Civic Honours Competition were unveiled by Mark Harper, Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, who is inviting … Continue reading →

The expert panel who will decide which sites go forward to be considered for nomination for World Heritage Status was today announced by Tourism and Heritage Minister John Penrose. The independent panel of nine people, meeting for the first time … Continue reading →

HLF has announced an overall budget of £250m for new grants next financial year (March 2011-12) – £45m more than the budget for the current year. This news is the result of the recently confirmed increase in the share of … Continue reading →

The entire full-time Planning Aid staff have been sent pre-redundancy consultation letters by the DCLG. The notices were sent to the sixty staff earlier this week. DCLG currently pays Planning Aid about £3m per year but this is expected to … Continue reading →

Paul Morrell’s Innovation and Growth Team has released its final report on UK construction’s low carbon transition for the government to consider, with recommendations to include ‘green leases’, greater use of building information modelling and standardised solutions for housing retrofit, … Continue reading →

A new report could offer some prescient glimpses as to what’s in store for our future world. As humans we’re obsessed with the future, with predictions, projections, extrapolations and guestimates but more often than not these turn out to be … Continue reading →

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