Town & Country
PLANNING
January 1999, Vol. 68, No. 1 CONTENTS
FEATURES
2 Baker's dozen needs a leavening of wisdom Roger Levett looks at Sustainability Counts, the DETR consultation paper on indicators of sustainable development
4 Guiding regional development strategies Peter Roberts finds much to welcome in the the draft guidance for the Regional Development Agencies on the development of their regional strategies
5 Planning and environmental racism Bob Evans on black and ethnic minority groups, the British planning system, and why 'the environment' cannot be assumed to be 'colour-blind'
12 Future climates of the UK IVlike Hllime presents some key elements of the Climate Change Scenarios report, recently prepared for the UK Climate Impacts Programme
14 The grass-on or off?
Michael Hebbert on the deliberations over greenfield development at the recent RIBA/CNT/HBF/TCPA 'Keep off the Grass?' conference
16 50 years of loss
Stewart Bryant on the record of damage to the nation's archaeological heritage revealed by English Heritage's Monuments at Risk Survey
17 Barking Reach - reclamation, regeneration and new community building on a strategic scale
David Lock on the development of Barking Reach, a major brownfield land reclamation and urban regeneration project involving public and private sector partnership
20 A quantum leap for planners Simin Davoudi looks at the role of the planning system within changing approaches to waste management
24 The new politics of waste Ken Worpole on the Re-inventing Waste: Towards a London Waste Strategy, report and some vital issues for planners
26 Country planning - now is a different era John Holliday makes the case for a new kind of country planning to realise the true potential of the countryside
28 Community planning - a new way forward for Scotland?
Greg Lloyd and Barbara Ilisley on community leadership and planning in Scotland
REGULARS What's On
7 TCPA Policy Response Tackling waste takes more than management
9 Peoples Ideas Colin Ward: The Machynileth
culture
10 Getting Somewhere Sally Cairns; Winning friends and influencing people
11 Off the Fence David Lock: Another ctiance to
rediscover regional planning
30 Step Outside Brian Goodey: Mo more to market
31 LocalExchange David Boyle: Where's the money to come from now?
32 TheEuro-Files Janice Morphet: Should we get our money back?
33 Practice & Process Experience of development planning practice and processes Lynn Wetenhall: New agendas, new dilemmas
34 Reviews John Deiafons on Loncfon:
More by Fortune than Design;
Martin Stott on The Future for Allotments
35 What'sOut 36 Letters IB Connections Paul Burall: Tree planting and other matters
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PLANNING
VOL . 68 , NO . 2 , 1999
38 If the Danes can do it...
Helmut Lusser looks at the UK Climate Change
Programme consultation paper from the
DETR and is left wondering about long-term
vision
39 Return to good sense?
Peter Hall reads between the lines of recent
Government statements on household growth
and housing provision, and in particular at the
Government's response to the Environment
Committee's Housing report
44 High stakes for logi'am pilots
Lynda Addison on the Breaking the Logjam
consultation proposals to allow local authorities
to raise revenue from road user charging and a
workplace parking levy
46 Car parking bombshell
John Blake on the 'hard hitting and radical'
Parking Standards in the South East report for
the DETR and the GOSE
48 Tax and green transport plans
Stephen Potter looks at how, despite White
Paper commendation, the development of green
transport plans as a serious policy measure
faces a serious hurdle in the form of the tax
system
52 Get connected
William Solesbury on how telecommunications
and transport are increasingly bound together in
how people communicate, and the implications
for policy
54 Re-inventing residential urban design
Matthew Carmona on three major recent pieces
of work on residential urban design
58 Neighbourhoods - building blocks of
national sustainability
IVlichael Carley on sustainability and the need
for neighbourhood empowerment
61 Urban growth versus sustainability? The
planners' conundrum
Sue Essex, Alison Brown and Kevin Bishop
report on a local study of sustainability, urban
growth and environmental capacity
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TOWN &COUNTRY PLANNING
VOL . 68 , NO . 3 , 1999
70 Don't be snooty about the suburbs
Peter Hall looks at the Sustainable Renewal
of Suburban Areas report recently launched
by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
the Civic Trust and Ove Arup, and finds
the beginnings of the search for sustainable
suburbs
71 Going public
Paul Burall on the recent TCPA/Guardian
debate in Cambridge on housing demand and
East of England RPG
78 The South West through the looking glass
Jim Claydon argues that although a laudable
amount of officer and member work and effort
has gone into producing the Revised Regional
Strategy for the South West, it nevertheless
demonstrates the flaws in the current process
80 A land reform agenda in Scotland
Greg Lloyd and IVlike Danson look at the
principal recommendations for land reform
in Scotland put forward by the Land Reform
Policy Group
82 Defining rural sustainability
Simon Fairlie puts forward criteria and policies
for sustainable development in the countryside
85 Incorporating the environment into European
regional programmes - evolution, progress
and prospects
Peter Roberts and Tony Jackson on the origins
and development of EU environmental and
Structural Fund policy, and the incorporation of
environmental considerations in regional plans
and programmes
89 Money answereth all things?
Dominic Medway, Andrew Alexander,
David Bennison and Gary Warnaby on the often
overlooked potential of payment in kind support
for town centre management schemes
92 Clinical waste incineration - a suitable case
for treatment?
Janet Eales and Christopher Wood on the
planning and environmental protection issues
raised by two clinical waste incinerators in the
north west of England
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING
VOL . 68 , NO . 4 , 1999
102 Community, social exclusion and
urban renaissance
Bob Evans on the Urban Task Force's
enthusiasm for 'socially mixed cornmunities'
104 Firm and flexible
IVlictiael Breheny on the consultation draft
revision of PP612: Development Pians
104 An important step on a practical pathway
Peter Roberts looks at the consultation draft
of PPG11: Regional Planning
106 Beyond motherhood and apple pie
Richard Butt on the Rural England
discussion paper
112 A need to clarify 'need'?
Huw Williams on recent Ministerial
'clarification' on 'need' and retail and leisure
development
112 Dense thinking
John Blake finds a fundamental flaw in the
Planning for Sustainable Development
good practice guide
114 Wasted assets
Ashley Horsey outlines the task facing the
Empty Homes Agency
115 Scepticism in retreat?
Stephen Potter on the 'green' bits of the Budget
116 New start, new vision?
Andrew Gilg on the new Countryside Agency
117 The sustainabie countryside
Chief Executive Richard Wakeford outlines some
thoughts on the Countryside Agency's role
118 Changing by degrees
Robert Wood and Simon Shackley on a study
of climate change impacts in the North West
120 Social housing - time to dismantle
the market
Alan Whitehead IVIP on social housing need
and market failure
123 Fine words? The EU urban action plan
Michael Hebbert looks for signs of action in
the Commission's Framework document
126 Urbanisation and the countryside
Barry Cullingworth on 50-plus years of
post-war planning
127 Inquiry on the home stretch
Diane Warburton on the progress of the
TCPA's Inquiry into the Future of Planning
128 Why not a rural renaissance?
John Holliday looks for new thinking
131 Making sustainable development operational
David Counsell on a study of structure plans
and sustainable development
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANING
VOL:68, NO:5, MAY 1999
142 Prime numbers
Michael Breheny on the latest household
projections
143 Predict the sequence and provide the
housing - Is this what the Government
really wants?
David Pike on a new 'predict and provide'
within draft PPG3
150 A workable approach to housing?
Andrew Lainton on the problems in a
'use-specific' PPG
151 Threatening supply
Brian Salmon on PPG3 and housing
land supply
152 Design and PPG3 - seven years on
Matthew Carmona on the design advice
within PPG3
154 Are planners part of the problem?
John Perry and Merron Simpson on planners,
PPG3 and affordable housing
154 More joined-up thinking still to come
Alastair Jackson and Tim Southall on PPG3
and land market processes
156 Green belts - the need for re-appraisal
Martin Elson on reviewing green belt policy
159 Environmental protection approaches
within structure plans
David Counsell on how leading-edge structure
plans have addressed environmental protection
162 Community participation through
virtual reality
Dory Reeves and Allison Littlejohn on
technological innovation and community groups
164 Towards the '24 hour city'
Peter Jones, David Hillier and David Turner
on the management challenges associated
with the '24 hour city' concept
166 Greening office buildings - new logics of
policy practice
Simon Guy on office building, environmental
innovation, policy-makers and the property
process
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANING
VOL: 68, NO: 6, JUNE 1999
FEATURES
174 The people - where will they work?
Michael Breheny on a new TCPA project on
household growth and the geography of jobs
177 For 'modernisation', read 'business
as usual'?
Yvonne Rydin on the progress report on the
modernisation of the planning system
182 Not dwelling on race
Michael Hebbert on new research on housin(
and ethnicity in London
184 Improving the bus pedigree
Marcus Enoch on the buses consultation papi
185 The future for buses - an illusory vision
Mayer Hillman on why high hopes for
increased bus use are likely to be dashed
187 Household heat is fuelling global warming
Paul Ekins on household energy use and
greenhouse gas emissions
188 The first hundred years
Dennis Hardy looks back on 100 years of the
TCPA
189 A message from the Prime Minister
189 The second century
TCPA Director Graeme Bell looks to the future
190 As I saw it - part I
Wyndham Thomas offers personal reflections
on the TCPA's history
191 As I saw it - part II
David Hall on 28 years as TCPA Director
194 The fourth magnet
Peter Hall on the task facing the TCPA now
196 Unfinished business
David Lock on the TCPA's future
196 Looking forward, looking back
Peter Roberts on the TCPA's future, and its
past
197 On reaching one hundred...
Messages and reflections from Baroness
Hamwee, Nick Raynsford, Nigel Waterson,
Matthew Taylor, Brian Briscoe, Tony Struthers,
Richard Best, Richard Wakeford, Chris
Holmes, Roger Humber, Anthony Giddens,
Colin Ward, Geoffrey Steeley, Melvin Webber,
Thomas Hall Klaus Kunzmann
202 Sustainable development - accommodating
social needs
David Counsell on sustainable development
and structure plans
REGULARSZDSaMOrtIha-WUft^lWaHOiMfs
178 people & ideas
colin ward: Grieving for a
lost home
179 Future work
Martin Stott: Farming futures
180 planning world
peter Hall: Brentham-
london's forgotten gardan
suburb
181 off the fence
david lock: Goodby, CNT-
welcome to the new towns,EP
205 north-&- west of watford
peter roberts: news from
beyond the pale
206 low inpact living
simon fairlie : making
connections in the green belt
207 local exchange
david boylle: telling stories
of disappearing banks
208 practice & process:
curiosity, evidence and
integration
jackie wilkins on evidence-
based practice
209 practice & process:
lynn wetenhall's diary of a
process practitioner:
picking over the entrails
210 reviews
patsy healey on the
richness of cities
211 peter self- a memoire
212 Bill luttrell- an appreciation
212 what's on
212 inside america
michael teitz: To BID or not
to BID?
BC back View
land use planning under a
scottish parliamen
BC Back Log
Town & country planning
50,25 and 10 years ago
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING
VOL. 68, NO. 8-9, SEPTEMBER 1999
FEATURES
242 One swallow doesn't make an indicator-
Paul Blirall on the latest climate change
indicators
243 South East shocker
John Blake on housing and employment in the
South East
254 Breaking the gridlock
Ted Cantle on the UK Sustainable
Development Strategy
256 Problems of polarisation
Brian Robson on The Slow Death of Great
Cities?
257 First steps
Alan McKinnon on Sustainable Distribution
Special Section on the Urban Task Force
Final Report
258 Not an election winner
David Lock on the Urban Task Force report
261 Urban design - into the melting pot
Matthew Carmona on the Task Force and
design
264 Financing the renaissance
Richard Barras on the Task Force's financial
proposals
265 Making the investment?
Colin Lizieri on private sector investment
267 The importance of stimulating demand
Richard Barras on the KPMG Fiscal Incentives
report
268 The unfinished agenda - jobs, jobs, jobs
Peter Hall on the nature of jobs and the
geography of employment
270 The unfinished agenda - accommodating
growth: where and how?
Peter Hall and Nathaniel Lichfield on urban
growth and community well-being
273 The unfinished agenda - time for a new look
at land and taxation?
Bob Evans on land and development taxation
275 It's the economy, stupid
lan Roxburgh on jobs and freedom of choice
REGULARS
244 TCPA PPolicy pages
Including Director's notes
247 Letters
248 People& ideas
Colin Ward:shrinking cities
249 Planning World
Peter Hall: City without
frontiers
250 Trading Places
Cliff Guy; Small-town blues
251 Future Work
Martin Stott: Learning to
succeed?
252 Getting Somewhere
Sally Cairns: Moving
towards well-being
253 Off the Fence
David Lock: The new town
daughter for Cambridge
282 North & Wast -of Watford
Peter Roberts: Strategy,
strategyeverywhere...
283 What's On
283 Local Exchange
David Boyle : Towards a
earning city
284 Practice & Process:
Frank McKenna: old IT-
retrieve, re-use and recycle
285 Practice SProcess:
Lynn Wetenhall's Diary of a
process practitioner:
Radical talk-but has the
room layout changed?
286 reviews
Peter Hall on Building the
21st Century Home;
Alan Rogers on The State of
the Countryside1999;
Michael Hebbert on Cities in
Civilization, OerekTaylor on
Community and Sustainable
Development
288 Desert Island Books
IB Inside America
Michael Teitez: Urban
regeneration revsited
BC Planning for a Change
BC Back Log
Renaissance views...
Reactions to the task force report:
263 Katie Williams
268 Ivan Turok
276 Duncan McLaren
277 Tony Champion
278 Brian Robson
279 Alison Ravetz
279 Harley Sherlock
280 Stephen Potter
280 Richard Best
280 KenWorpote
281 Keith Reed
281 Ernrys Jones
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