Daily Archives: 24/08/2018

The milestone of a 400,00th listed building designation for England has been reached, through listing the former head office of the Raleigh Cycle Company in Nottingham. image: HE website

The Scottish Government have issued a call for applications relating to The Place Standard Conversations Fund and The Community-led Design Fund (closing dates 31 October and 28 September).

England’s Communities Secretary has called for an increase in so called ‘garden towns’ in England, aiming to construct 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s, but the plans have been criticised by CPRE, which questions the use of the term … Continue reading →

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has launched a report which details its performance relating to planning functions, showing that it has met or exceeded over 90% of its response targets.

Heritage and Society 2018 has been released by Historic England (HE), which ‘includes recent research findings as well as past seminal pieces’ to highlight the importance of the historic environment for wellbeing and sense of place. image: Cover of Heritage … Continue reading →

Preparations for demolition of Windscale Pile One, the 110m high chimney structure at Sellafield which was the scene of Britain’s worst nuclear accident, have begun.  Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The British Standards Institute (BSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have just issued a new joint standard on ‘Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities’, for ‘for city leaders, policy makers, local government senior executives, … Continue reading →