Is the end of Predict and Provide in sight?

Is the end of Predict and Provide in sight?

Recently, Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) became one of the first Local Authorities to require consultants to use the “decide and provide” approach when predicting development traffic and parking requirements. As we know, the previous predict and provide approach...
What’s changed? A year since COP26

What’s changed? A year since COP26

This month, and the start of COP27, marks a year since the world gathered in Glasgow to debate and agree future action on climate change. The world has changed markedly in that short time, with an energy crisis, rampant inflation, and economic uncertainty. Not to...
Housing Targets – Back in the USSR

Housing Targets – Back in the USSR

It’s been 70 days since I wrote about how the incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss declared she wanted to abolish ‘Stalinist’ centrally set housing targets and how the argument on this is often cyclical. While the previous cycle took around 10 years to shift from...
Giving young people a voice

Giving young people a voice

Despite making up 25% of the population, and being highly engaged in political and environmental issues, young people are often on the periphery of conversations about the future of their own neighbourhoods, with very little direct input in planning and consultations....