Battle of the greenfield: with the real meaning of 'sustainable development' still a very moot point, how can the Government, planners and, ultimately, the public decide on whee housing land should be allocated? possibilities need to be tried and tested

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The main question in the debate about housing land allocations is where the required 4.4 million homes needed by 2016 will go. Choices include squeezing new development into urban areas, building new settlements or allocating greenfield sites. Ian Collis of David Tyldesley and Associates, environmental planners, believes that 2.4 milion of the homes would need to go on greenfield land destroying premium farmland and spoiling rural landscapes. Urban regeneration is seen as the sensible approach to sustainable and cost effective planning.

Housing, Location

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Working girls

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Britain's Our Daughters Charitable Trust is organising the second 'Take Our Daughter to Work Day' on April 27, 1995. The event, sponsored by the BBC, the Local Government Management Board and others, is aimed at increasing the confidence and career ambitions of young women. Females aged between 11 and 15 are being encouraged to go to work with a relative, adult friend, neighbour or teacher and participating employers are planning a timetable of activities. The planning profession is eager to encourage more women recruits.

Women, Demographic aspects, Employment, Young women, Working women, Planners

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Plain sailing for estuary initiatives: wide consultation and a tight team have made Gwent's coastal planning work a success

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Gwent County Council is involved in several initiatives aimed at sustainable management of the coastal levels. The Welsh Levels, or the Reens, combine drained land and estuarine mud flats and have remained largely undeveloped. They are threatened by development, pollution, flooding and recreation. New strategies will cover a broader range of issues providing a co-ordinated aproach to the Severn estuary as a whole.

Practice, Coastal zone management

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