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An Objector’s Guide to the English Rural Planning System

December 15, 2020September 28, 2016 by Chris Smaje

With planning permission for a permanent rural worker’s dwelling hot off the press, we now have the green light to develop the farm long-term with security of tenure.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Food & Water Tags building resilient food systems, planning policy, small-scale farming Leave a comment

Planning: the untapped power of community consent

December 15, 2020February 23, 2015 by Rob Hopkins

When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story?

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags building resilient communities, planning policy Leave a comment

Empty Lots, Grand Visions

December 15, 2020October 29, 2013 by Jeff Turrentine

…the lesson at hand requires us to ask an important question: How do we go about balancing the vertical density that makes any city feel urban with the scenic, spirit-reviving respites that make it feel, well, human?

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags affordable housing, Placemaking, planning policy, urban density Leave a comment

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