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Living in a "virtual inquiry" world - Top Tips
With The Planning Inspectorate's (PINS) move to "virtual" hearings and inquiries, DLA's Duncan Chadwick and Landmark Chambers' Barrister ...

Mark Prestige
Jun 22, 20202 min read
'Garden Villages and Garden Towns: Visions & Reality' - Observations from the Coal Face
DLA's Heather Pugh reflects on the commentary on the perceived success of the current round of Garden Villages published by the lobby gro...

Mark Prestige
Jun 18, 20204 min read
Decarbonising Transport - a role for 'Manual for Streets'?
Senior Urban Designer/Planner Scott Gibson looks at how we can design our streets, to play a role in decarbonising transport, by encourag...

Mark Prestige
Jun 17, 20204 min read
A Pattern for our times
As lockdown continues, DLA's Simon Collier rediscovers the teachings of classic urban design text that is Christopher Alexander's A Patte...

Mark Prestige
Jun 15, 20202 min read
Plans for Glenvale Park SUE in Wellingborough move forward
A hat-trick of reserved matters applications for the Glenvale Park Sustainable Urban Extension at Wellingborough were granted approval th...

Mark Prestige
Jun 11, 20201 min read
Is a new era dawning for urban design and planning? Don't bank on it just yet
It's time for a coordinated campaign for changes to public policy so that success is measured not only by the financial uplift in the val...

Mark Prestige
Jun 11, 20203 min read
Design Code for Waterbeach given green light
Today, South Cambridgeshire District Council approved the Design Code for the first phase of development at Waterbeach. DLA is part of t...

Mark Prestige
Jun 10, 20201 min read


Lessons from my local park
Urban Designer Owen Reading writes about the human value of our local parks and the lessons we can learn for the design of future places ...

Mark Prestige
Jun 8, 20203 min read
Virus Orientated Growth: Data Centres
Viruses are historically the enemy of computing capabilities. However, COVID-19 has caused a dramatic spike in the demand for data centre...

Mark Prestige
Jun 3, 20203 min read
Duty to Cooperate - a pitfall for spatial planning
The Duty to Cooperate (DtC) has brought several Local Plans crashing down at Examination. The latest victim being the Chiltern and South ...

Mark Prestige
Jun 2, 20202 min read
Scratching the sky
David Lock on the Department for Transport's decision to open up UK skies to advertising and messaging through skywriting and skytping.

Mark Prestige
Jun 1, 20201 min read
An ever-growing case for Green (and Blue) Infrastructure
Since moving to Milton Keynes from London two years ago my family and I very quickly grew to love the city’s park system.

Mark Prestige
May 27, 20203 min read
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