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Category Archives: Community Right to Build
Sounds Sensible…
The Community Land Trust website reports on the announcement that the threshold of support for Community Right to Build projects will be lowered from 90% to 75%. They also note…
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CRTB: How Many Homes?
As I said in a previous post, the ‘sustainablility’ logic behind the planners’ preference for large-scale development, centred on a limited number of highly serviced, highly accessible centres, is lost on most ‘normal’ people. It seems only common sense to … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Right to Build, development, growth, housing delivery, Norfolk, settlement pattern, sustainability
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Architectural Press Showing Interest…
Weekly construction-industry newspaper Building Design covers last week’s announcement of the new lower threshold of support for a Community Right to Build (CRTB) project. The RIBA mentioned the Planning Officers’ Society consultation response in its Members’ Newsletter last week. Prior to … Continue reading
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How to CRTB #2 – Creating Value
I said in a previous post it was ironic that the Coalition spending-cuts have hit a programme aimed at supporting community run pubs. It isn’t ironic, of course – in fact it’s ideologically consistent with the whole thrust of the … Continue reading
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The Heart of a Village
The British Beer and Pub Association reports (here) that 900 pubs closed in the last year. The village pub, school and shop/Post office between them form, if you will, a Holy Trinity of ‘village life’*. Both the Telegraph and Daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Right to Build, land-use, local services, pub, shop, village centre
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Design Quality Outside the Planning System?
Given that the current planning system hasn’t generally managed to produce new housing of inspirational and enduring quality, it is perhaps odd that my biggest concern about Community Right to Build is to do with design. It’s true that planners … Continue reading
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CRTB: The Early Response
‘Preposterous’ may have been a bit harsh as my first thought on the Community Right to Build, but I’m certainly not alone in feeling skeptical. The professional press certainly sees more obstacles than opportunities.
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…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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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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A Community Right to Build?
‘Preposterous’ was the word that sprang immediately to mind as I listened to Grant Schapps outlining his idea for a Community Right to Build on July 23rd, but by the time I voted in an on-line poll at Planning Blog … Continue reading
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