Councils call for long-term funding to build 200,000 social homes as Angela Rayner to overhaul planning rules | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-housing-councils-angela-rayner-b2587603.html
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For those interested in such things, code and extracted data for the 2024 Timetable Planning Rules (https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-and-commercial/information-for-operators/operational-rules) data, including useable platform length in metres, is here (https://github.com/anisotropi4/TPR/releases/download/2024V4-1.0/TPR-and-platform-2024V4.zip)
Timetable Planning Rules are used to regulate the standard timings between stations and junctions together with other matters enabling trains to be scheduled into the working timetable for the various parts of the main rail network.
The Engineering Access Statement (EAS) and the Timetable Planning Rules (TPR) are collectively referred to as the Operational Rules. EAS The EAS describes the rules regulating the arrangements for engineering access to the rail network. It sets out the location, number, dating and duration of possession access (restrictions of use), which we require to deliver … Continued
For major #developments #PlanningUK is broken.
Here is a high-profile example from central #London but similar examples are floundering in many large towns & cities.
That's not to say the proposed designs are always the best, because the lack of partnership with #LocalCommunities condemns #architects and #planners to play pass-the-parcel with #PlanningGuidance treated as #PlanningRules.
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