A Sustainability Delivery Group Expert Talk looked at how two departments in Arcadis combined forces to create contaminated land screening software. Sarah Winne and Katy Baker explain how difficult choices were made for the risk assessment model.
A Freedom of Information request revealed the inquiry cost the council £76,800 in legal fees, £107,191 in agency staff costs, and £21,107 to host the inquiry website
The guidance provides a series of tips on the key data sources that should be considered and the questions that should be answered by risk assessment practitioners to ensure that the soil contaminant distribution is correctly interpreted
Taylor Wimpey and Homes England win recovered appeal, Ancoats regeneration moves to next phase, logistics deals for both GMI Construction and Harworth, as Network Rail and Grainger join forces for Built-to-Rent homes
The figures come from an an analysis of Brownfield Registers, but although there were housing announcements in the Autumn Statement, City Hall was disappointed
Commentators are welcoming moves to tackle inefficiencies in the planning system and commitments to critical infrastructure but say not enough has been done to tackle the long term housing problem
Manchester looks for neighbourhood development team, as Liverpool appoints placemakers, industrial developments at Sunderland, Erewash and Walsall as Cityheart wins preferred developer contract
The letter to Michael Gove says addressing critical questions around the impact of gender bias within the urban design, property, and planning sectors remains a critical blind spot in the NPPF that can no longer be ignored
A study from Cardiff University found the post-remediation aspects of nature based solutions, including impacts on environmental services and the end-of-life management of biomass, were often neglected in assessments
Planning permission in principle would be granted to all those living within city limits to densify existing residential sites, provided certain conditions are met
Significant changes ahead with some sections coming into force on 26 December while others "on such day as the Secretary of State may by regulations appoint"
The RTPI report says that underfunding of planning services "makes it impossible for local authorities to pay a fair market rate for the professional expertise of planners"
No revenue was built into Hargreaves forecasts in respect of HS2 Phase 2 as the timing and certainty of the northern section (Birmingham to Manchester) had been unclear for some time
Campaigners say that due to erosion and climate change there had been significant change over the decade and the site presented a threat. The council and Environment Agency previous tests between 2010 and 2015 indicated no significant threat
To achieve the goals investment, from around £55bn/yr in the last decade ratcheting to £60-70bn/yr in the 2040s is needed along with modular updates to and five year reviews of National Policy Statements
The increase means that 12.6% of the land area of England (1,638,420 ha) is now designated as green belt, the largest annual figure reported since 2003
The Brickflow report says there is no single silver bullet to address the housing crisis - planning, land supply, government investment, funding, material and labour supply, developer incentives and affordability, are interwoven and interdependent
Nitrogen and phosphorus neutrality must be achieved by new housing developments located in multiple catchments across the UK. In a Sustainability Delivery Group Expert Talk, James Ellaway, technical director of WSP's water division, details the current situation, challenges and possible solutions.
