Planning
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Climate positive - urban laboratories seeking new models for sustainable living
Antony Oliver reports on the move towards carbon negative cities -
Climate Positive - case studies
LONDON - Elephant and Castle; SAU PAULO - Parque da Cidade - city developments setting the pace -
Q and A | Jon Kirkpatrick, sustainability director, Lend Lease
The Elephant and Castle project in south London is eating the bench mark for sustainable development. Jon Kirkpatrick explains. -
Procurement initiative - call for evidence
Industry should support the reform of public sector construction procurement. ACE regional manager Noel Foley explains. -
Armitt’s Infrastructure Commission: Not Stalinist just Sensible
Robbie Owen on the draft legislation and why, if enacted, it will make planning better, fairer and faster. -
Labour embraces Armitt’s National Infrastructure Commission as key to ending policy drift.
Armitt: more certainty around political decision making will end “flip-flopping” over infrastructure priorities. -
Local Growth Deals – a genuine new dawn for Localism or just more window dressing?
Empowered localism could see a renaissance in the delivery of regional infrastructure, says Steve Bromhead -
Leeds and Manchester emerge as big first round LEP winners
Full list of first round of Local Growth Funding allocations across the 39 LEPs. -
Miliband and Adonis vow to shift £30bn of central funding to LEPs
Regional funding boost is key to driving growth outside London. -
Affordability of infrastructure – Public Accounts Committee stands up for consumers
Check consumers can afford to pay via bills for new infrastructure, Margaret Hodge tells Treasury.