Design panel review gets warm reception

I was up at the crack of dawn this morning to attend a breakfast launch of the new guidelines for Design Review Panels.

Planning departments “knackered”

Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff says buildings like the The Pier Head Ferry Terminal bulding in Liverpool are ‘slipping through the net’ because planning departments are “knackered”.

Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Contrary to popular opinion there is plenty of noise from the development sector in these recessionary times, albeit it is the sound of planning gain agreements being urgently renegotiated.