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In his speech on the economy on 30 June 2020, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, argued that “newt-counting delays” slowed down house building. He said that, in the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, we would “build better and build greener but we will also build faster”.
Alice Shorett and Murray Morgan, The Pike Place Market: People, Politics, and Produce (1982); Spitzer and Baum, Public Markets and Community Revitalization, pp. 19–20. Manc music legend and long-serving DJ Clint Boon has announced that he is stepping down from his role on XS Manchester and radio in general after nearly three decades on the airwaves. Some voices, such as the Local Government Association, say that the planning system is not the cause of England’s housing crisis, and instead ‘landbanking’ by developers means that the number of granted planning permissions is higher than the number of homes built and 90 per cent of applications are granted. Program of Work for Fiscal Year 1919, CMDP, box 1, RG 83, NA. Beanfield's blueprints for model markets, as well as his designs for refrigerated display cases, are in entry 2, RG 83, NA.Helen Tangires, "Contested Space: The Life and Death of Center Market," Washington History 7 (Spring/Summer 1995): 65. Building on deliberations from the conference, we held a webinar in September 2023 to discuss the role that academics, action researchers and professionals can play in fostering the formation and functioning of urban reform coalitions. In doing so, we wanted to give special focus to how knowledge and evidence can catalyse urban reform coalitions. Catherine Sutherland Yes, I think I mean, when I think of the other two presentations today, I think they were raising some of these critical issues about how do you build these cross-sectoral strategies. And I think that, again, this importance of co-production comes to the fore because we often think of trying to build these strategies from the outset. So how do we do this? But so often in these processes, in urban reform conditions, and I thought that was really so interesting when we looked at the work on the masterplan in Delhi, is that what you see is that the kind of strategies evolve out of you engaging with the particular focus that you have. So in engaging with that masterplan, a whole lot of strategies and we heard those lovely ideas of the fact sheets that were used in different ways by different groups, so that’s how knowledge was used, is that I guess you’ve got to have some idea of your strategy, but your strategy is almost to uphold what the kind of vision or principle of an urban reform coalition is. And then when you start to engage with the work and you start to co-produce knowledge with a wide range of actors who all in a sense going or should be aiming in the same direction, then your opportunities for strategy start to emerge. So I think I would say that you’ve got to have some idea of the overall strategy and vision, and that’s really about keeping the actor network together. But as you co-produce knowledge, then what happens is in this engagement with each other, you find that there is mapping that emerged out of our work, that that was something that the community and the state needed. And so we went down that road. So often you’ve got to be able to be open enough to create strategies and processes that do become cross-sectoral by engaging with all of those actors in the space. So it’s a little bit different to the way in which we’re used to working where we have a strategy and we go and do it. These strategies are actually often emergent. I’m not sure if that’s correct, but that’s how I would kind of see it. Planning reform will not directly affect levelling up. Although demand for new homes is growing in some places, such as Leeds and Manchester, housing pressures in areas in need of levelling up are not yet as acute as those in London and the rest of the South East. Planning reform should result in more being built in these places over the medium-long term and is crucial if they are to avoid London’s mistakes and unaffordable housing market, but this would be a response to economic growth rather than a driver of it.
One of the exceptional examples on the aid front was the Transforming the Settlements of the Urban Poor in Uganda (TSUPU) programme, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. TSUPU created a platform in Uganda for a partnership between the federation of slum dwellers, the national government and Cities Alliance (a network of bilateral and multilateral donors) to facilitate the establishment of the Municipal Development Forum (MDF), a coalition of local government, the urban poor, private sector, media, religious organisations and community-based organisations (CBOs) and NGOs, in Jinja and other Ugandan cities. The MDF provided communities with the platform to raise their concerns, suggest development proposals and build trust with city officials and other stakeholders.One of the Government’s stated aims in the white paper is to “improve pride in place in every area of the UK, with the gap between top performing and other areas narrowing”. Some of the white paper’s proposals relate to planning.
Cities discovered these shortcomings and responded with an easy, economical alternative to major development and preservation projects—the open-air farmers' markets, located in streets and parking lots. In 1977 there were one hundred farmers' markets operating in the country, stimulated by the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act (Public Law 94-463), and today there are more than two thousand. 57 As with other proposed planning reforms and the existing PDR for office to residential change of use, these proposals – and especially those relating to change of use from Class E commercial, business and service to C3 residential – attracted some criticism. In the Local Government Chronicle, the head of planning and practice at the RTPI and the chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association argued that the changes relating to change of use from Class E to residential could create “a lot of dead frontage” and that expanded PDRs were “not the way” to create necessary housing. A brand-new flexible zoning code designed by national and devolved governments for local governments to use in local plans, with a small number of different mixed-use zones corresponding to different types of neighbourhood. For example, skyscrapers would be suitable in a city centre zone and polluting industrial activity in industrial zones, but neither would be allowed alongside homes and light commercial uses in a suburban living zone. Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael Thank you very much, Shalini. We have two questions. One is from a colleague from The University of Manchester, Joe Ravetz, Future Cities lead at Manchester Urban Institute. The question is from Joe’s work on the global peri-urban, typically a zone of land conflict, local versus global, bypassing of communities and livelihoods. So Joe is asking you in this context of peri-urbanisation, how to start building wider knowledge coalitions in such a fragmented space. And the second is from Kenny Lynch from the University of Gloucestershire. Thank you for the great presentations. I wonder if any of the speakers could share any observations they may have on edge of city settings. Kenny’s interested in the edge of cities and how urban processes of fast growing cities bleed into the peri-urban areas, in line with Joe Ravetz’s question. Second, the planning process for almost all of the remaining land is highly discretionary with nearly all significant decisions made case-by-case. The uncertainty this creates in the development process reduces the number of new homes and commercial buildings that are built, as it is possible to propose a new development that complies with the local plan and nevertheless have it rejected.
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A new PDR to allow change of use from the new use class E (commercial, business and service) to C3 residential
James Harvey Young, Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food Pure and Drugs Act of 1906 (1989). See also Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (1977). Part of the moral reform efforts of the urban reform movement in the 19th and 20th century. Alcohol was seen as an evil influence which was responsible for a large portion of societal ills. Including dangers like domestic abuse, family abandonment and child abuse or neglect. The abuse of alcohol was a leading issue among the urban poor as it was a cheap method of Escapism. Alcohol was also associated with criminal activity, and citizens of high moral standing would avoid these associations. We are now located in a new facility near Piccadilly Train Station that’s double the size of our current venue, and it’ll have a focus on creative fitness, strength and offering consistent wellbeing messages.”Standard method for calculating housing need: The consultation proposed to amend the standard method, which must be used unless “exceptional circumstances” justify another approach. Moreover, people concerned with the current state of public markets considered the problem an American one, claiming that no market in the nation compared with the magnificent ones in Europe, such as London's Smithfield Market or Les Halles in Paris. In 1909 a writer for the Atlantic Monthly declared that "the Fulton or Washington [markets] in New York, or the Faneuil Hall Market in Boston, are not in the same class with the great modern markets of the European capitals." 9 An 1891 report of the Royal Commission on Market Rights and Tolls also noted the poor condition of American public market—attributing their demise to the absence of state control. Regarding a public market system in the United States, from the British point of view there was none. 10 While trying to reform public markets, USDA investigators studied traffic congestion around markets, such as that on Chicago's South Water Street, shown in 1915. (83-G-3716)
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