Title: Funding and planning for infrastructure (pdf)
Publisher: Local Government Group
Date: September 2010
Resource: Report
Description: Examines how constraints on public spending will affect the ability of local government to provide public sector infrastructure investment. Makes suggestions on how infrastructure investment can be maintained by localising accountability for decisions about infrastructure provision. Investigates how the planning system needs to be reformed and proposes the integration of the strategic planning of land use and services.
Title: Research into rural housing affordability
Publisher: DEFRA, Colin Buchanan, University College London
Date: September 2010
Resource: Research report
Description: Study focused on local affordability as it impacts on change in communities, stability and social networks, how the attributes of a rural location affect prices/affordability and the expectation of priority for housing amongst local populations, its rationale, its benefits and drawbacks and its achievability.
Title: Enabling development and the conservation of significant places
Publisher: English Heritage
Date: August 2008
Resource: Policy and guidance
Description: This second edition concentrates on those areas of practice which are particular to enabling development (and by extension other proposals where financial viability is a key issue), rather than common to most proposals affecting significant places, on which other guidance is now available.
Title: Regeneration in a downturn: what needs to change?
Publisher: The Smith Institute
Date: June 2009
Resource: Report
Description: Includes contributions from Michael Parkinson, Bob Kerslake, Liz Peace, and Tom Bloxham that give unique perspectives on the effects of the downturn plus recommendations on the future direction of regeneration policy, along with guidance on what needs to change in order to prepare for the upturn.
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