Daily Archives: 22/03/2013

Increase your employability, discover new opportunities, and top up your CPD, all while still saving money: book online now to take advantage of the early bird booking rates for the IHBC’s 2013 School, on 20-22 June in Carlisle, on ‘Skills’. … Continue reading →

Bursaries to cover fees for the IHBC’s 2013 School on ‘Skills’, to take place in Carlisle in June, are currently available to IHBC members, so apply fast to make sure you can be considered, or join the IHBC online now … Continue reading →

A partnership led by Locality and including IHBC past-chair and HESPR designated adviser Dave Chetwyn, is providing a new programme of support and grants to help communities create neighbourhood plans, with £9.5m funding available. IHBC past-chair and designated service adviser … Continue reading →

The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Budget to Parliament on 20 March 2013, generating a range of comments in response to a plan that signals little change overall. The RTPI observes: Government will: ·   publish significantly reduced planning guidance … Continue reading →

Chancellor George Osborne announced a new government guarantee, which he said would be sufficient to support £130 billion of new mortgages. Search Planning Resource: LINK BBC News: LINK

A London pub has become the first in the country to be saved from closure by local people utilising the Localism Act, which came into force last year. Grade II listed The Ivy House in Nunhead has now been classified … Continue reading →

England’s Ministers have amended a clause in its Growth and Infrastructure Bill following concern that moves to relax the development control regime for telecommunications infrastructure in National Parks and areas of outstanding beauty (AONBs) would damage protected landscapes. The Government … Continue reading →

Two bursaries are available for the 2013 ‘Spring’ Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Group (VAG), which will be based at the Carmarthen campus of the University of Wales Trinity St David from 25 to 29 June. VAG writes: During the … Continue reading →

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is being used to impose unnecessary greenfield development in the face of local opposition, according to a study by countryside campaigners. CPRE News: LINK Search Planning Resource: LINK

A planning blogger who sued a council and its chief executive for libel has lost her claim in the High Court and been ordered to pay £25,000 in damages after a counter-claim against her succeeded. The background to the dispute … Continue reading →

The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) has launched their new Open Churches Policy with an aim to have every church in CCT care open to the public 364 days a year – either through timed locks, the use of volunteer key-holders … Continue reading →

The government has moved to ease fears that its growth bill could damage protected landscapes by amending a clause intended to relax rules on the installation of electronic communications infrastructure in such areas. Search Planning Resource: LINK