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Plans for North East design hub revealed

Plans for North East design hub revealed

Plans for a £13m Design Centre North at the Baltic Business Quarter in Gateshead have been unveiled.

Partners net estate study

Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (NLP) is to lead the preparation of environmental improvement masterplans for three industrial estates in County Durham.

Pathfinder development 'set to halve'

House building in the government's pathfinder areas for housing market renewal is reportedly "set to halve for each of the next two years".

Planning Appeal Casebook

DC Casebook: Housing: new build - Demolition justified by regeneration aim

The demolition of two houses in a conservation area in Northumberland has been approved after an inspector ruled that they do not make a valuable contribution to the area.

In Depth

Planning Student Quiz 2009

Planning Student Quiz 2009

Pit your wits against other teams in Planning Magazine's Student Quiz '09!

Resolving spatial strategy conflicts

Local authority planners' perception of a conflict in the parallel processes for setting development priorities is misplaced, Janice Morphet argues.

Northern Ireland: planning for the future

A more streamlined planning system aims to cut bureaucracy and involve politicians and the community in the process, explains Brian Sore.

Planning emissions cuts

Planners will play a key role in focusing political and technical attention on the scope for using low-energy technologies to significantly cut greenhouse gases, says Domenic Donatantonio.