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What’s the best way to sustain community engagement under proposed planning reforms?
The Planning Bill that will go before Parliament later this summer has generated substantive debate around multiple issues including the...
Jun 16, 20213 min read
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Local Planning Authorities: how they engage with communities via Statements of Community Involvement
Prof Gavin Parker, University of Reading The University of Reading has been working with Civic Voice recently to scope out and assess...
Jun 7, 20212 min read
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Newham communities say: Stop the tunnel
Six hundred people marched through Canning Town on Saturday 5 June, calling for the Silvertown Tunnel project to be cancelled in a...
Jun 7, 20213 min read
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London Assembly Leader pledges to work with Listen to Locals
Andrew Boff, newly installed as Leader of the London Assembly following last month’s local elections, has pledged his support for the...
Jun 7, 20212 min read
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Stop the Exclusion and Obfuscation
Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Local Planning in the UK is having a moment --- recent local elections highlighted planning and in...
May 25, 20212 min read
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The Health Impact Assessment: an Opportunity for Community Engagement
Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Many of us see the pandemic as a reset opportunity for the development of local communities, with many...
May 17, 20213 min read
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Constructive engagement in planning for London: the next mayoral term
Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Congratulations to Sadiq Khan, our re-elected Mayor of London, and to the 25 members of the GLA elected...
May 10, 20213 min read
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Why is Lambeth Council undermining our community?
The Cressingham Gardens estate, designed in the 1960s by the then Lambeth council’s in-house architecture team under Ted Hollamby, is...
May 3, 20213 min read
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Opportunity Areas – opportunity for whom?
The Old Kent Road has been designated an Opportunity Area by the GLA and as a result there are to be 20,000 new homes built on and around...
May 3, 20212 min read
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We must protect our Right to Light
Michael Ball, Waterloo Community Development Group This pandemic has been a great leveller – we’re all in it together. Remember that...
May 3, 20212 min read
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The Planning System is Broken, but it can be fixed
Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Last evening’s Listen to Locals hustings with mayoral candidates (and deputies) and last week’s hustings...
Apr 29, 20214 min read
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We are at risk of losing our vital Green Spaces
I am a local community organiser and activist, and a member of a number of green space groups. Over the past year, many people have grown...
Apr 22, 20212 min read
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We need a revolution in Planning to build Trust & Transparency
The residents of Osterley, Isleworth & Brentford have just experienced probably one of the worst Planning Committee meetings ever in...
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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Planning in a post-Covid environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many of the problems of high density living in tall apartment blocks. During the lockdown many have...
Apr 21, 20213 min read
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Community-led plans must be integrated into the planning process
For over 10 years now members of Mortlake Brewery Community Group have been volunteering their time and expertise to create an...
Apr 21, 20213 min read
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Our elected officials must demonstrate preparedness for crises & unforeseen events
A long two years ago, Hammersmith Bridge closed to cars, buses and emergency vehicles, massively affecting the lives of thousands of...
Apr 21, 20213 min read
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Are Housing Targets Giving Developers a Free Ride?
The new London Plan has just been published condemning South West London, particularly Hounslow and Kingston, to massive development and...
Apr 20, 20212 min read
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The Listen to Locals Ten: Planning advice for the next Mayor of London
1. Post Pandemic communities The pandemic has exposed vast inequalities across London in health, wellbeing and opportunity, underpinned...
Apr 11, 20214 min read
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The first journey begins with the longest step
Last week the Greater London Authority (GLA) put one city scale foot forward on their #plantech journey. Until now, London’s public...
Mar 26, 20214 min read
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