Category: Planning

Planning

Reduced to Turkish Barbers and Vape Shops

BY LIZ HODGKINSON When I was invited back to my hometown at the end of 2024 to give a talk about my latest book, A Mink Coat in St Neots, I could not believe what confronted me. I had not visited the place for perhaps 30 years, when it still retained some semblance of a small rural town. Now, it was completely unrecognisable from the town … Continue reading Reduced to Turkish Barbers and Vape Shops

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White Paper, Whitewash & Hypocrisy

BY ED PEMBERTON Some seventy years ago this country had some of the worst slums anywhere, and cities devastated by aerial bombing.  There was a real need for new housing and it was met by something that used to be known as Planning. But Planning seems to be a dying art. Places such as Thornbury, a historic market town in South Gloucestershire, already overwhelmed by … Continue reading White Paper, Whitewash & Hypocrisy

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