Planning reform key to sustainable development

Planning reform key to sustainable development - 2003 - Planning (for the Natural and Built Environment) (1549) 12 December 2003, 3(1) .

The Sustainable Development Commission, the government's independent adviser, has published "Mainstreaming sustainable regeneration", in which it advocates planning reform as the best opportunity to make sustainable development a mainstream practice. It sees the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill as a crucial vehicle for integrating sustainability with development, identifies criteria for sustainable regeneration, flags up examples of good practice and recommends ways of making such schemes mainstream. The commission is urging the government to publish action plans by July 2004 in the light of the commission's findings. The report is available at http://www.sd-commission.gov.uk/pubs/regeneration/mainstream/index.htm


SUSTAINABLE REGENERATION
PLANNING REFORM
PLANNING AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE ACT 2004
REGENERATION
GOOD PRACTICE