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		<title>Top ten blog posts for 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the end of the year! Lets celebrate with the top ten PlanningBlog posts!

10. Battle lines drawn in ‘village green’ debate
9. Planners to blame for booze Britain? 
8. Anyone for a McFlat? 
7. Glastonbury Festival &#8211; a lesson in planning  
6. Tree house row gets fresh airing 
5. Residents launch Swindon blitzkrieg
4. Making planning sexy 
3. No laughing matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1228&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can we have a Conservative estimate?</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/can-we-have-a-conservative-estimate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wilding</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely a week has gone by in the last couple of months when I haven&#8217;t had a tip-off telling me that the Tories&#8217; planning green paper will be coming out in the next few days.

I&#8217;m always grateful for calls like this, but as time has gone by my expectations of the document actually appearing have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1218&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charles&#8217;s Poundbury eco-town vision</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/charless-poundbury-eco-town-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eco-towns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian runs an interesting piece today on attempts by the Prince of Wales to influence planning policy.

According to the paper Prince Charles wanted the government’s eco-towns to be based on his controversial Poundbury development…
You can read the full article here.
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		<title>Hopes for 2010</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/hopes-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Domenic Donatantonio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it’s my last blog of 2009, I’d like to set the scene for what’s coming up in the New Year.

Naturally the economy is on most people’s minds, and we would hope that a financial upturn will invigorate the development market.
In terms of planning policy, we await the responses to the government’s draft national policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1206&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paris ponders high rise future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris officials vote today on whether to modify planning regulations to allow a new 180m pyramid-shaped tower in the city, according to reports.

Parisiens have traditionally resisted high-rise development, and there has been no new skyscraper in the city in twenty years, but if plans by the mayor Bertrand Delanoë are passed today, towers over 37m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1202&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estate agents feel the pinch</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/estate-agents-feel-the-pinch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[estate agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Estate agents, like bankers, have a bad public image and, also like bankers, they’ve had a rough year.
Research carried out by The Local Data Company across the UK’s top ten cities during the 12 months to October 2009 shows 142 estate agents (15.8 per cent) shut their doors.
Chains of five units or more were worst [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1199&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Party planners</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/party-planners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is ‘Party Friday’, the peak day for Christmas parties in the UK.
Although not directly related to planning, most of the sector work in offices and most will attend a Christmas party this year (The Planning team will be having a recession busting couple of pints in the local on Tuesday night, no expense spared).
Planning departments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1194&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swindon twinned with Disney World, fact</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/swindon-twinned-with-disney-world-fact/</link>
		<comments>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/swindon-twinned-with-disney-world-fact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dance spectculars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swindon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fact is indeed stranger than fiction as proved today by the news that Swindon is to be twinned with Walt Disney World…

Swindon is probably best known for roundabouts and, er, other stuff, not magical cartoon kingdoms full of mirth, colour and Mickey Mouse.
But after a gruelling competition beating off competition from 24 other towns including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1190&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Michael Donnelly</media:title>
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		<title>Let’s hear it for New York..</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/let%e2%80%99s-hear-it-for-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[green infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Line Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to be in New York at the weekend and took the chance to visit the new High Line Park which runs through the city’s West Side.

The park opened earlier in the year and uses the structure of a defunct railway line to create a new raised linear park above the city [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1180&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Michael Donnelly</media:title>
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		<title>Proposals push petition power</title>
		<link>http://planningblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/proposals-push-petition-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Donnelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has launched a consultation into how to strengthen the use of that great British tradition, the petition.

The petition has long been a valuable tool in the armoury of people opposed to, angry about or calling for services or action in their local neighbourhood but it’s an easily dismissed form of protest.
The government is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=planningblog.wordpress.com&blog=7703033&post=1158&subd=planningblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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