Failure to prepare…

Failure to prepare, is to prepare for… Most people I speak to believe that local people won’t engage as fully in the big society thing to the extent and in the numbers that the government reckon. I tend to agree, but we have a duty to try and at least think about what it might [...]

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Localism: no worries

This is a guest post by John Dixon (Plymouth Borough Council) as part of our series on ‘Blueprints for ‘open source’ planning’ What does the future hold for the planning system and should we be worried?  I want to concentrate on the central plank of the Coalitions policy: Localism. So what is Localism?  There are a few [...]

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From 2013 – a message to the past

“Personally, I miss the reassuring ‘stamp’ of soundness, but if we’re honest the inspectorate was never about ‘good’ planning.”

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Can fantasy become reality? A councillor perspective on planning and localism

This is a guest post by Councillor Claire Denman (Crawley Borough Council) as part of our series on ‘Blueprints for ‘open source’ planning’ Last night I chaired my first LDF working group meeting since the elections. Our agenda had been prepared a month in advance to ensure that we remained on schedule in accordance with [...]

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A blueprint for ‘open source’ planning

As you might imagine, we’ve been doing some proper thinking at PAS villas recently. I’d argue that “good” planning will remain what “good” planning always has been – but there is no denying there is a new game in town, and some of the support and case studies we have on our shelves are suddenly [...]

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