Recycled ideas: last week's Housing White Paper confirmed the 'greening' of the Government's housing policy, but is it enough?

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The Housing White Paper includes a further extension of home ownership and the sell-off of housing association-run estates. This reinforces the existing planning policy guidance that favours brownfield urban sites rather than greenfield development. Half of all development should be on re-used land over the next 10 years, but space will still be required for up to 850,000 extra houses in the countryside.

Laws, regulations and rules, Housing, Land reclamation, Reclamation of land

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Battle of the bases

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The British government is planning to sell off roughly 35 major military sites in the United Kingdom. The Arms Conversion Project and CPRE, pressure groups, have criticised the government for accepting the largest bids, despite the impact the sale might have on the countryside and local community. The role of the planner is very hard in this case.

National Security, Military Bases, Purchasing

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Harnessing the power of ideas

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Tim Cordy is the new director of the TCPA. Cordy wants to put right many of the wrongs committed in the past. Cordy aims to spend about five years in the new job. He is 46 years of age. He wants to research how resource consumption in the planning system can be reduced. He also wants to re-examine accepted thoughts on housing.

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development, Urban Planning Assistance, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Urban planning, City planners, Cordy, Tim

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