| COMMENT |
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| Rioting for Austerity |
| No false messiahs, thank-you, but a voice crying in the wilderness might be helpful. |
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| Very Angry Potatoes |
| If GM is spreading all around the world, all the more reason for keeping the UK GM free. |
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| The Barker Review of Planning |
| The Treasury economist carries on gnawing away at democracy. |
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| TLIO DRAFT POLICY STATEMENT |
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| The Right Wing Campaign against the Planning System |
| The Land Is Ours distances itself from neo-liberals. |
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| Nice Facts, Pity about the Ideas |
| Review of Kevin Cahill’s Who Owns the World. |
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| ENERGY |
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| Apocalypse Soon? |
| A review of the latest books from James Lovelock and George Monbiot. |
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| Power Cut |
| Predictions of panic when the lights go out. |
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| Anarchy in New York |
| HV Morton’s classic article on the New York black-out. |
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| Letters |
| Taking to the hills; and on-farm bio-fuel production. |
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| The Future of the Intercity Coach |
| Alan Storkey explains how coaches could be made quick, efficient and comfy. |
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| UTOPIAN SETTLEMENTS |
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| Pirate's Paradise |
| Larry Law’s account of a pirate’s republic in Madagascar. |
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| The Rise and Fall of Ruskin Commonwealth |
| John Egerton tells the story of a 19th century Utopian fiasco. |
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| Chartist Land Colonies |
| Chris Coates explains the failure of Feargus O’Connor’s ambitious land settlement scheme. |
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| Ecoville |
| Tony Gosling uncovers plans for a 1990s eco-settlement. |
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| La Borie Noble |
| Rebecca Laughton visits a fifty-year-old community in France. |
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| Lammas |
| Jenny Pickerell and Larch Maxey outline the careful preparations for a new settlement in S Wales. |
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| HOUSING |
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| Urban Clearance |
| Different approaches to “regenerating” terraced housing in Liverpool and Salford |
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| Housing Monitor |
| REITS; EDMOs; and Titnore Woods. |
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| Land Access |
| Fordhall Farm; Register of Surplus Land. |
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| PLANNING POLICY |
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| How to influence your Local Plan |
| Lucy Nichol explains the new development plans and how to have input. |
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| Eco-neighbourhoods |
| Planning policies for super-sustainability, proposed by the Cohousing Network. |
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| PPS3 |
| The new government policy for housing promotes greenfield development by the back door. |
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| Rural Baron builds Industrial Estate |
| Former CLA President Ewen Cameron benefits from CLA-inspired policies. |
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| How I became a Travelling Planner |
| Simon Ruston, caravan dweller, describes his education in planning. |
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| Not fit for Website Forum |
| The ministry refused to accept this submission from Tony Thompson on traveller site design. |
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| Climate Change Planning Statement |
| Tough on buildings but ignores traffic. |
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| Holiday Home Sophistry |
| New model conditions rule that holiday caravans are only for people with another home. |
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| APPEALS |
| Hermit’s Corner; John van Loggerenberg on shacks;Argyll planners want to evict at least 20 families, and turn local residences into holiday homes; batty arguments about a reader’s barn. |
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