Urban sustainability UK news

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Waltham Forest building a 15-minute borough, Dec 21 [1]

2020

Reconciling the ‘20-minute neighbourhood’ Nov 16 [2]

Bristol reveals plans to pedestrianise historic centre in Covid-19 revamp, May 21 [3]

How a Belgian port city (Ghent) inspired Birmingham's car-free ambitions, Jan 20 [4]

2019

York to ban private car journeys from city centre within three years, Dec 31 [5] ...Yorkshire and the Humber news

Net zero carbon neighbourhood to be built in south Wales, Dec 23 [6]

Bristol council votes to ban diesel cars in first for a UK city, Nov 5 [7]

Community parklets: Locals invited to apply as council reopens trial programme,Aug 7 [8] ...Hackney

Plymouth becomes the UK’s first Fab City, Jul 1 [9]

Marmalade Lane: the car-free, triple-glazed, 42-house oasis, May 8 [10] ...Cambridgeshire

Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town, Jan 9 [11]

Cars, lorries and taxis to be banned from Tottenham Court Road, Jan 4 [12] ...London news

2018

Timpson says a locally-driven approach needed to rejuvenate high streets. Retail industry experts have called for a community-focused approach to tackling the challenges facing high streets and town centres. Dec 20 [13]

The government-appointed panel made up representatives from the retail, property and design sectors has published practical recommendations to reinvigorate town centres by creating a community hub which, alongside retail, includes leisure and social services and more residential property.
The report puts community involvement and local leadership at the centre of a plan to create the town centres of the future.

Create Streets say: We don't want NIMBYs, but YIMBYs and BIMBYs (Y for "Yes", B for "Beautiful"), Oct 15 [14]

Government faces court action over 'illegal' planning policy, Sep 4 [15]

This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22 [16] ...Oxfordshire

Government commits to further support for neighbourhood planning, Mar 19 [17]

We could build more than a million homes on brownfield land… so why aren’t we? Feb 28 [18] ...Kent news

People-powered housing: is it the answer to our housing crisis? Feb 23 [19]

2017

Community group builds plans for genuinely affordable housing, Nov 2 [20] ...Haringey

Funding of around £5.5 million per year until 2022, to provide communities with specialist support to help develop a Neighbourhood Plan, Sep 20 [21]

Borough Market to phase out plastic bottle sales with free fountains, Aug 23 [22] ...Southwark

The @MayorofLondon is aiming to make London one of the greenest cities on Earth, Aug 21 [23]

Are you currently preparing a neighbourhood plan? Could community-led housing meet the needs of your area? Jul 24 [24]

2016

Putting people in control of public land, Nov 2 [25]

Peers vote for new neighbourhood right of appeal, Apr 22 [26]

Neighbourhood Planning and Transition initiatives: an update. February 5 [27]

Community-led housing: top of the agenda! Jan 20 [28]

2015

It’s in all our interests to know who owns our land, and who benefits from it, September 28 [29]

Charity Sustrans unveil new modular street furniture system, September 21 [30]

Five Radical Ideas for a Better Planning System, April [31]

Atmos Totnes and the Power to Convene, January 22 [32]

2014

Our month on rethinking real estate: Why I’m proud to be a SWIMBY, October 2 [33]

Why I'm not a planner, nor proud of planning, May 23 [34]

2013

A Right to Build: Local homes for local people, March 14 [35]

New alliance calls for “Smart Growth” investment in cities, not more 1980s-style sprawl, February 21 [36]

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See also

References

  1. ↑ airqualitynews.com
  2. ↑ newstartmag.co.uk
  3. ↑ theguardian.com
  4. ↑ theguardian.com
  5. ↑ The Guardian
  6. ↑ The Guardian
  7. ↑ The Guardian
  8. ↑ @hackneycitizen
  9. ↑ University of Plymouth
  10. ↑ The Guardian
  11. ↑ What Works Centre for Wellbeing
  12. ↑ London Evening Standard
  13. ↑ GOV.UK
  14. ↑ The Alternative UK
  15. ↑ The Guardian
  16. ↑ The Guardian
  17. ↑ gov.uk
  18. ↑ cprekent.org.uk
  19. ↑ neweconomics.org
  20. ↑ neweconomics.org
  21. ↑ gov.uk
  22. ↑ The Guardian
  23. ↑ developmentfinancetoday.co.uk
  24. ↑ ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk
  25. ↑ neweconomics.org
  26. ↑ cpre.org.uk
  27. ↑ transition Network
  28. ↑ locality.org.uk
  29. ↑ NEF
  30. ↑ The Arch Biz
  31. ↑ UCL Bartlett School of Planning
  32. ↑ Transition Network
  33. ↑ Transition Network
  34. ↑ Urban policy and practice
  35. ↑ policyexchange.org.uk
  36. ↑ Housingnet
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