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  • Guest post | Mixing it up in Midtown Tampa

    Midtown Tampa is the kind of instant city that 20 years ago I would’ve raved about. It’s another great example of The Urban Experiment. This is a mixed-use, walkable development that has been created out of whole cloth west of ....

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  • Heating Clydebank via the Clyde: renewable heat in the COP26 host city

    In less than ten months’ time, the eyes of the world will be on Glasgow, as the city plays host to the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference (COP26). Leaders from across the world will come together to discuss enhanced ambitions ....

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  • Garden communities – the sustainable dream or car-dependent nightmare?

    “Rather than being centred on sustainable transport, it looks like garden communities are to become car-based commuter estates just like any other – exactly what the government wanted to avoid.” This is the conclusion of a recent report from Transport ....

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  • Engaging the ‘silent majority’ in planning: is digital the answer?

    It has long been a concern that traditional planning consultation methods do not adequately capture the views of the majority. Instead, they tend to be dominated by individuals with certain characteristics – typically older people or retirees, with high disposable ....

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  • A mixed reception for Labour’s housing green paper

      In April, the Labour Party launched its strategy for tackling the housing crisis in England. Housing for the Many presents a 50-point plan, with proposals that include: investing £4bn a year to build one million ‘genuinely’ affordable homes over ....

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  • Managing growth in historic towns

    By Heather Cameron Predominantly set within environmentally attractive surroundings, historic towns and cities have a strong sense of place, offer a good quality of life, are often prosperous and represent models of sustainable development. Research shows that businesses based in ....

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  • An Englishman’s home is his rabbit hutch? Implications of the national space standard for the building control profession

    When the coalition government launched a fundamental review of England’s building regulations in 2012, it was called “the biggest change in housing standards in a generation.”  One of the review’s major outcomes was a standard that prescribes space sizes for ....

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  • Is it time to start building on the Green Belt?

    “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.” William Blake, 1799 The forthcoming Housing White Paper from the Department for Communities and Local Government ....

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  • Celebrating 1,000 issues of the Idox Information Service Weekly Bulletin

    by Stacey Dingwall After turning 40 last year, the Idox Information Service today reaches another milestone: the 1,000th edition of our Weekly Bulletin. The Bulletin is circulated to our members every week, as part of their subscription to our service. ....

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  • The rising price of checking in: is there a case for visitor taxes, or will business fund tourism development?

    Tourism has a big impact on the UK economy. Figures from the World Travel and Tourism Council show that: The total contribution of travel and tourism to UK GDP was £187.7bn in 2014, and is forecast to rise to £263.9bn ....

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