Category: Planning
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Conversion of large obsolete car dependent out-of-town retail barns to new uses looks good on paper.
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Changes are proposed to the NPPF and the planning system. Find out how to have your say.
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Kidbrooke Village is a large new development of some 4,700 homes in the borough of Greenwich, South East London. The development replaced the 1960s/ 1970s Ferrier Estate which was knocked down to build something completely different. The development is a partnership between local government, housing developers, and community stakeholders and consists of an interesting and unusual
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In May 2024 Transport for New Homes visited a new part of Swindon called Wichelstowe, a large urban extension which has been slowly built up over the last 18 years since it was given planning permission in 2006. Swindon centre itself appears to be in bad need of regeneration with the Brunel Shopping centre having
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Freiham is specifically designed as a green and pleasant place for walking and cycling and for using public transport.
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Locations for new housing are not considered in terms of sustainable transport, access to services, employment or environmental impact.
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PRESS RELEASE: New research has found that greenfield housing estates are adding hundreds of thousands of new car journeys to our roads, increasing congestion, carbon emissions and air pollution.
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All over the country, local authorities are preparing local plans for the future, many of these spanning 15 or 20 years up to and beyond 2035. The manifestation of past local plans has now appeared in the form of new areas of housing, but these are far from green transport-wise. We have visited many large
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PRESS RELEASE: We welcome the positive language about getting people out of their cars onto public transport.
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Blog by Jenny Raggett, Transport for New Homes There has in recent days been much talk about the Chesham and Amersham byelection, a constituency that has always been Conservative but has now been won by the Liberal Democrats. An important election issue was the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system, with fears that planning