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Category Archives: Development/Land-Use
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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What’s this village doing here?
A rare sortie abroad in the last couple of weeks has reminded me that despite the great cost of holidaying overseas (in cash and carbon), it does give one the opportunity to see new things and have time to think … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Celle dei Puccini, history, holiday, Italy, land-use, sustainability, tourism
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Tesco Self-Build?
A piece on one of BD Online’s blog today was stressing about the prospect of Tesco getting involved in the UK self-build market, and idea which Housing Minister Grant Shapps has been toying with this week according to Building Design … Continue reading
The Norfolk Way
I finally managed to get together with Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman at his constituency office in Dereham last week. I’ve been keen to talk to him since seeing his ideas on sustainable rural development – his ‘Norfolk Way‘ campaign – … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, design quality, development, George Freeman, Localism Bill, Norfolk, sustainability, village
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CRTB to facilitate self-build?
In an announcement from the CLG last week, Grant Shapps declared his support for the self-build sector, saying he wants to ‘break down the barriers that many aspiring self-builders often come up against’. The Community Right to Build (CRTB), he … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, consensus/support, development, self build
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75% Support? Impossible, surely…
I was at the official opening of The Pennoyer Centre in Pulham St Mary last week. Quite apart from the fact that it was designed by our studio, Lucas Hickman Smith, and has just received design-awards from South Norfolk District … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Big Society, Community Right to Build, consensus/support, development, Pennoyer Centre
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Two Tribes?
Like the first snows of a chilly winter, Google and Twitter have brought me a flurry of rather gloomy reports on the problems of rural life in the last couple of weeks.
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged affordable housing, commuting, housing delivery
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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
How to CRTB # 5 – Two Farmers and a Wedding.
I was at a wedding in Suffolk this weekend, and had interesting conversations with two farmers. After dissecting the impact that the Russian harvest was having on domestic grain prices, and the merits and demerits of forward-selling commodities, I raised … Continue reading
What Would You Do With Half a Million Quid?
In my worked example I imagined a Community Right to Build project of ten houses for sale, generating a pot of money for the CRTB ‘good cause’ of around half million quid. What does that buy?