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Tag Archives: cars
Forest Village #8: What’s the Catch?
So far, Forest Village is the product of an end-of-holiday moment of wistfulness: ‘This is lovely; wouldn’t it be nice to live here all the time?’ But like all such pipe-dreams, it’s worth taking a minute to be critical. It … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged cars, Center Parcs, cycling, development, forest fire, Forest Village, land-use, value
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A Tale of Two Competitions #1: Clay Fields
When I started writing Ruralise I had a list of things I wanted to cover. I thought it would be good for a few months, but as it’s turned out it’s taken me over a year to get the last … Continue reading
Rural Sustainability #2
My Twitter ‘drag-net’ continues to throw up interesting nuggets that wouldn’t have come my way otherwise. This piece by Jamie Shorten in Town and Country Planning magazine, from 2007, addresses some themes which I touched on briefly all the way … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged cars, CPRE, energy, food, land-use, NPPF, policy, rural, settlement pattern, sustainability, urban
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Urban or Rural? The Sustainability Question
My mind has been on other things this week, away from the immediacies of the Community Right to Build (Localism Bill out soon?) and my rambling treatise on architecture in a rural context. I’ve actually been thinking about sustainability, aided … Continue reading
…And the Case Against!
Well, I have to declare an interest: I’m not a ‘normal person’ either! I’m an architect with a good working knowledge of the planning system and sustainable design, so my reference to planners in the last post was a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, Community Right to Build, land-use, local services, Localism Bill, policy, sustainability, urban renaissance
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The Case for CRTB
So why is the Community Right to Build a good idea, at least in principle? Well, generally speaking the only way to add development to villages under the present planning system is under a Rural Exception Policy, a clause in the prevailing … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, Community Right to Build, land-use, local services, Localism Bill, policy, sustainability, urban renaissance
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