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The Land Issue 11 Winter 2011-12
| COMMENT |
| The Great Bovine TB Cover-up |
| Cute badgers, sick cows, and unhelpful rules. |
| Greenest Government Ever? |
| No prizes for guessing the answer. |
| Get Real |
| It’s time the countryside occupied the Stock Exchange. |
| NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES |
| Wikileaks Exposes GM lobbying; WTO Claims Free Markets Bring Food Security; Fighting Back against Land Grabbing; Profiting from Rising Food Prices; Good News on CAP?; Occupy Everywhere |
| ARE WE REALLY GODS? |
| Another God Delusion?. |
| Mike Hannis on the pessimism of Mark Lynas. |
| Open Source Biotech |
| Can we resist GM if it goes viral? asks Simon Fairlie. |
| THE FUTURE OF FORESTS |
| A Sense of Ownership |
| Robin Maynard puts the case for keeping forests public. |
| In Woods We Trust |
| Dave Bangs wonders which side the NGOs are on. |
| Who Needs It? |
| Mike Abbott thinks we could do without the Forestry Commission. |
| Could Try Harder |
| Mike Gardner speaks up for independent foresters. |
| The More we are Together |
| Can subdivision of woodlands lead to their cohesion? |
| Small Woodland Livings |
| Getting back to work in the woods. |
| “Britain’s New Forest Villages” |
| Accommodation for forest workers, past and present. |
| Seeing the Forest, not Just the Trees |
| Trees are not the only vegetation, says Helen Baczkowska. |
| Tree Fetishism |
| Think before you plant, cautions Simon Fairlie. |
| Agroforestry in the UK |
| Ed Hamer finds that farming under trees can work very nicely. |
| Wood is Good? |
| Can it really be carbon neutral to burn wood in power stations, asks Mike Hannis. |
| Biomass — A Burning Issue |
| Nick Grant and Alan Clarke on the contradictions of biomass boilers. |
| Has Biochar Gone too Far? |
| Gill Barron gives a ground-level perspective on charcoal. |
| Back to the Trees |
| Robert Somerville, architect and timber framer, on using what we’ve got. |
| A Forest Uprising |
| Gill Barron finds a precedent for rural revolution. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| See You on the Streets, Amigos |
| Gill Barron’s outrage at the Tory’s squattting ban. |
| Land Registry Privatisation |
| The new Public Data Corporation will be more corporate than public. |
| Salad Days |
| The rise, fall and possible rebirth of the Land Settlement Association. |
| Tyrannosaurus Regs |
| Is there life after planning? No, there are building regulations, warns Simon Dale. |
| Blunt Instruments |
| How the BREEAM Code for Sustainable Homes discriminates against low impact dwellings. |
| Working Against Nature |
| Chapter 7 responds to Nick Grant and Alan Clarke. |
| One Planet Footprint |
| Simon Fairlie asks why no one is looking at edge-of-settlement One Planet Developments. |
| Planning Policy Framework |
| No one is taken in by the Tory presumption in favour of sustainable development. |
| Neighbourhood Planning on Exmoor |
| James Shorten reports on a pilot exercise in “localism”. |
| New Enforcement Powers |
| The Localism Act contains some worrying measures. |
| Development Control |
| Mostly concerning Mid Devon. |
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The Land Issue 10 Summer 2011
| Special Edition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprisings, and reflecting on current technological controversies. |
| COMMENT |
| Thanks George, but No Thanks |
| Simon Fairlie laments George Monbiot's conversion to nuclear power. |
| The Inevitable Surplus of Offices |
| Is turning empty offices into homes a silly idea? |
| For All who from their Labours Rest |
| Meet the patron saint of precarious living. |
| NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES |
| CAP Payments Clear as Mud; Action on GMOs; Reclaim the Fields; Spelman’s Spoutings; Leaked G20 Report; University of East Anglia in a Spin |
| IN PRAISE OF LUDDITES |
| Mr Lud’s Song |
| Theo Simon traces the history of the Luddite revolt through its songs. |
| Fire Brand |
| As a public relations ploy, Ned Ludd was a brilliant success. |
| King Ludd in the Countryside |
| The rural south catches up with the northern uprisings. |
| Lessons from the Luddites |
| Kirkpatrick Sale on the contemporary relevance of the Luddite message. |
| Luddism through the Ages |
| Episodes from the Technology Resistance Movement. |
| From Techno to Tao |
| The Ornamental Hermit’s proposal for a post-materialist Arcadia. |
| Technology and Equity |
| Simon Fairlie explains why new agricultural technologies keep people poor. |
| Technology as if People Mattered |
| Appropriate is the key word, says Patrick Mulvany. |
| Four Reasons Why Technology Doesn’t Save Time |
| It creates as much work as it saves, argues Simon Fairlie. |
| Synthetic Biology |
| Jim Thomas describes a new techno threat to the land. |
| The Luddites and Biopolitics |
| David King discusses alarming new trends in the life sciences. |
| In Vitro |
| A new film explores the downside of techno babies. |
| Slow Evolution is Co-Evolution |
| Suggestions for a Luddite Manifesto for the 21st century. |
| The Material Impact of Cyberspace |
| Martin Pedersen and Nina Moeller investigate. |
| Man, Bytes, Dog |
| In 1984, James Gorman foresaw the coming of the pet home computer. |
| A Techno Recipe for Making Nature the Friend of Capital |
| Sian Sullivan explains what’s cooking. |
| INDIA |
| Gandhi on Technology |
| The world’s most successful Luddite discusses tactics. |
| Peepli Live |
| A village tragicomedy brings Indian agriculture to international attention. |
| The Largest Wave of Suicides in History |
| P Sainath on the epidemic of farmer suicides in India. |
| Impressions of the New India |
| Despite technology, India survives, reports Jyoti Fernandes. |
| Agricultural Futures |
| Ed Hamer on commodity speculation and its effects on agriculture. |
| Feedback on "Meat" |
| Feedback on Meat Simon Fairlie responds to people commenting on his treatment of carbon farming. |
| Romanian Reminiscences |
| Ingrid Glendenning tells it like it used to be. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Localism |
| Chapter Seven’s guide to the great planning upheaval. |
| War Against the Poor |
| Scrapping squatting won’t cure the housing crisis, writes Adam Payne. |
| Look Out for Loppsi |
| Low impact living is under threat in France, reports Gill Barron. |
| Gentrifying Brutalism |
| Mike Hawkins reviews Owen Hatherley’s Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. |
| A Thousand Huts in Scotland |
| Reforesting Scotland launches a resurgence in forest dwellings. |
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The Land Issue 9 Autumn 2010
| Local Good, Central Bad? |
| Should we welcome the Tory rhetoric about the local community? |
| High Speed Follies |
| Why advocates of roadbuilding have turned their attention to high speed rail |
| Making Anarchism Respectable |
| A tribute to Colin Ward, Britain's most persuasive anarchist |
| Biofuel Power Stations |
| Farm Subsidies; GM spuds |
| Guatemala Trade Unionists Murdered; Palestinian Olive Oil |
| Land and Conflict in Afghanistan |
| Michael Semple explains the background of land disputes behind the Afghan War |
| Carbon, the New Cash Crop |
| Will carbon offsets in farming undermine food security? asks Helena Paul |
| True Blue in the Countryside |
| Ed Hamer talks to Jim Paice, the new Tory minister for food and farming |
| Investigating England's Armpit |
| The Ornamental Hermit charts the landowners of the North West |
| Which Land Search |
| Cathy Ashley provides some tips on how the use the land registry |
| Is Urbanization a Temporary Phenomenon |
| Simon Fairlie wonders what is the point of cities |
| An Untutored Townsman's Invasion of the Countryside |
| Paul Kingsnorth moves out of town |
| Dumbo Meets the Hunt |
| Roger Scruton's accidental initiation into country sport |
| Superior Pedigree |
| An episode in the history of the British pony |
| No Place for the Young |
| Ed Hamer meets engineers of the rural exodus |
| "Not Our Core Business" |
| The Tories launch a renewed assault upon Somerset's county farms |
| Peak Phosphorus: A Crisis of Urbanization |
| Is ruralization or technofix the answer to the P problem? ask Simon Fairlie |
| Rethinking Reed Beds and WET Water Systems |
| Low-tech and local solutions for phosphate accumulation |
| REVIEW: Commonwealth |
| by Martin Large |
| REVIEW: Haytime in the Yorkshire Dales |
| edited by Don Gamble and Tanya St Pierre |
| REVIEW: Meat: A Benign Extravagance |
| by Simon Fairlie |
| Obituary |
| Sid Rawle |
| Letter to the editor |
| Peter Melchett of the Soil Association responds to the articles on soil carbon in The Land Issue 8 |
| What is Development? |
| Mike Hannis asks whether development has always involved separating people from the land |
| Open Source Planning |
| What will come of the Tory's radical proposals to reform the English planning system |
| Wales Adopts Low Impact Development |
| One Planet Development is now enshrined in Welsh planning policies |
| TAN 6: A Model for England to Follow |
| The new Welsh rural planning guidance is quite sensible |
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The Land Issue 8 Winter 2009
| Who Knows Who Owns Britain? |
| Why is it so hard to find out who owns land in the UK? |
| Arse About Face |
| The European system for regulating organic and “conventional” farming has perverse consequences. |
| Peasants at Copenhagen |
| Ed Hamer reflects on the recent climate summit. |
| The Myth of Resource Efficiency |
| Mike Hannis on a new book that examines the Jevons Paradox. |
| FAO Backtrack on Livestock |
| The FAO is withdrawing from its anti-peasant stance of three years ago |
| Carbon Colonialism and the Mathematics of Methane |
| Simon Fairlie dissects hysteria about methane and livestock. |
| Ghost Carbon |
| Can organic farming capture more carbon in the soil than chemical farming? |
| Reclaim the Fields |
| As farmers get older and fewer, a new generation of European peasants is demanding access to land. |
| Big Country, Small Farms |
| Rebecca Laughton visits some mad US farmers. |
| Tomatoes All Year Round |
| The UK imports them from Morocco, but are there alternatives? |
| The Plough and The Spade |
| Christina Ballinger asks how the drive for allotments will affect local commercial growers. |
| New Allotments — Where Will They Go? |
| Will it be in a place which is convenient for consumers and growers |
| Land Value Taxation — Panacea or Placebo |
| Alanna Hartzok tackles questions about the wisdom of taxing land. |
| Keeping Occupied |
| Keith Hallack describes his life in a squat on a condemned East London estate. |
| Insurrection in the Hills |
| Ed Hamer reports on a revolt against the demolition of a bungalow in Exmoor National Park. |
| Keep Our Downs Public |
| We must stop our councils from selling off our most treasured spaces, says Dave Bangs. |
| Its Only Bondage was the Circling Sky |
| John Felstiner on poet John Clare whose parish was enclosed when he was 16. |
| Two Books |
| Patrick Whitefield on reading the landscape and Adrian Bell on the people who work in it. |
| When Will the Alpaca Bubble Burst? |
| If planning policy doesn’t change it could go on for ever, reckons Simon Fairlie. |
| Meadow End |
| Pat Kinnersley witnesses the demise of a bungalow. |
| Ground Control |
| Anna Minton on Hans Monderman, the traffic consultant who spoke out against guard rails |
| Planet Development |
| Chapter 7’s response |
| Lammas Springs into Life |
| Five months after getting permission, several families are already installed. |
| How Solid Is the Inspectorate? |
| A reader challenges Simon Fairlie’s view that it is a rock of sanity”. |
| Appeals |
| Another successful LID appeal in Pembrokeshire, and others. |
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The Land Issue 7 Summer 2009
| One Man's Pirate |
| is another man’s coastguard. Why Somalis turn to piracy |
| Unsung Heroes |
| The never ending struggle against road-building |
| Clean Conscience Mechanism |
| STEFFEN BÖHM scrutinizes a carbon offset scheme in Uruguay |
| A Never Ending Struggle |
| Land grabs in the forests of Colombia, Peru and Surinam |
| Land Reform Compromised in Bolivia |
| EVO MORALES battles agains Bolivia’s fascist legacy |
| The Last Plantation |
| What happened to all the Black farmers in the USA? |
| Letter on Contraction and Convergence |
| MOLLY SCOTT CATO responds to Oliver Tickell |
| Ghandi on the Road Again |
| MADDALLENA CAMMELLI describes the Janadesh walk to Delhi for land reform |
| A Short History of Enclosure in Britain |
| How our land was privatized over five centuries, by SIMON FAIRLIE |
| Sheep Eat Men |
| SIMON FAIRLIE finds history repeating itself on the Welsh borders |
| Down With the Fences |
| MICHAEL BRADLEY recounts how London’s commons were saved by direct action |
| Literary Responses to the Clearances |
| Little known writers were more vocal than big names, writes CHARLOTTE FAIRLIE |
| Will the Real Farm Labourer Please Stand Up? |
| K D M SNELL on Hardy’s depiction of Dorset labourers |
| Everyone's Right |
| LOUKAS CHRITODOULOU examines the history of common right in Sweden |
| Poachers in the Alps |
| ROLAND GIRTLER AND GERALD KOHL uncover the culture of the “Wilderer” |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Rural Planning Policy to be Axed |
| Why the ministry wants to get rid of PPS7 |
| Where Next for LID in Wales? |
| MARK DYSON on the prospects for a low impact policy in Wales |
| News from West Wales |
| It is make or break time for the Lammas project, writes PAUL WIMBUSH |
| Green and Pleasant Land |
| Lobbyimg for a low impact policy in Dorset |
| The PEPC Generation |
| A smallholders’ co-op centred round a packing and processing barn |
| A Long Road to Nowhere |
| Why do so many affordable housing groups founder? |
| Random Concept Clusters |
| How to write a government consultation paper |
| Steward Wood and Karuna |
| Two permaculture appeal decisions with different results |
| Update from Wealden |
| Two LID projects in Sussex receive renewal of permission |
| My Other Home is a Georgian Pile |
| Rural shoebox deemed to have architectural merit |
| Reflections of a Dumpster Diver |
| Tristram Stuart’s new book on food waste |
| An Idea Whose Time Has Come |
| The original Low Impact Development is republished |
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The Land Issue 6 Winter 2008 - - - OUT OF STOCK
| Three Cheers for the Recession |
| It’s what advocates of a zero growth economy have been waiting for |
| Posture Politics and Colonial Fallout in Zimbabwe |
| Mark Brown assesses Robert Mugabe’s reputation and legacy |
| Life After Land Reform |
| Ian Scoones examines the effects of redistribution of land in one area of Zimbabwe |
| Reconstructing Serbia |
| Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan visit occupied factories in Serbia |
| Before It’s Lost |
| A sketch of rural Serbia, by Rob MacCurrach |
| International Land Struggles |
| Syngenta in Brazil, Chinese in Africa, divisions among exiled Tibetans etc |
| An Ecosystem at Your Service |
| Sian Sullivan explains the thinking behind "ecosystem services" |
| Managing Atmospheric Commons |
| Oliver Tickell compares different schemes for allocating carbon emissions |
| Over Our Heads |
| Who owns the weather, asks Sophie Andrews, and what are they doing with it? |
| Land Reform for the Sea |
| Alastair McIntosh and David Thomson speak up for small scale fisheries |
| The Fat of the Land |
| Sanderine Nonhebel’s work on the veg-oil/meat nexus is explored by Simon Fairlie |
| Slow Evolution is Co-Evolution |
| The second half of Edward Lloyd’s essay on transhumanism. |
| Parkinson’s Disease |
| Simon Fairlie finds Parkinson’s Law popping up all over the place |
| After the Crash |
| Rebecca Laughton rediscovers John Seymour’s novel about rural life after oil |
| Farmers of Forty Centuries |
| Ian Cook reviews FH King’s clssic work on SE Asian farming methods |
| Many Logs to Make a Blaze |
| Alastair McIntosh on the significance of kindling wood |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Fair Trade Housing |
| The Office of Fair Trading’s new report on housing is enthusiastic about self-build |
| Could Be Cheaper? |
| We compare some affordable housing projects |
| Urban Dentistry |
| Gaps in the city skyline |
| LID: Getting the Policy Right |
| Part of Chapter 7’s submission to the Welsh affordable housing consultation |
| Wise and Smart |
| Shelter Publications’ new book on Pacific Coast Building |
| A Touch of Class |
| A wee book on benders by Laugh |
| The Book of Benders |
| Preview of an as yet unwritten work |
| Hard Times |
| Why the recession should improve planners’ performance |
| Appeal and Planning Decisions |
| Babergh, Lammas, Brithdir Mawr etc; and the worst appeal decision ever? |
| Two Cowboys and a White Knight |
| Vindictive behaviour by Mid Devon DC |
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The Land Issue 5 Summer 2008 - - - OUT OF STOCK
| Basic Banalities |
| Who is responsible for blanding England? |
| New Wine in Old Green Bottles |
| Will recycling the New Towns concept make them greener? |
| And Now for Something Completely the Same |
| Jim Paton dusts off some archives. |
| Return to Mother India |
| Jyoti Fernandes finds that the Gandhian movement in India is down, but not out. |
| The Transhuman Agenda |
| Edward Lloyd reminds us what lies at the end of the techno-capitalist project. |
| Stockfree Britain |
| Jennie Hall describes how a vegan countryside might be structured. |
| Corrections and Feedback to "Can Britain Feed Itself" |
| Default Livestock Farming |
| How meat and livestock can fit into a sustainable farming weigh carbon emission savings. |
| The Plight of the Pig in the Nanny State |
| Despite the swill ban, the cottagers pig will return reckons Simon Fairlie |
| The Kiss of DEFRA |
| The vet posse swoop on a tactless pig-keeper |
| MUSCLE POWER |
| The Rehabilitation of Manual Labour |
| Simon Fairlie examines the prejudice against physical work |
| Energy, Equity and the Bicycle |
| Excerpts from Ivan Illich's treatise on transport. |
| Kicking the Pink Diesel Habit |
| Rebecca Laughton on farming with muscle power. |
| The Nature of Manual Skill |
| There’s more to it than some might think, says Simon Fairlie. |
| Small Farmers’ Journal |
| By any standards a fine magazine |
| The Cuban Ox Revival |
| Roberto Sanchez Medina on the use of animal power during Cuba’s “special period” |
| Polish Horsepower, Peasants and Politics |
| Horsepower is viable for many Polish farmers, says Julian Rose |
| Horse Carts Banned in Romania |
| Julian Ross calls for the repeal of a dismally short-sighted law |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| The Two Cultures Behind Government Energy Policy |
| Two documents, two contrasting policies |
| The Planning Bill |
| The continuing story of the neo-liberal bid to undermine the public inquiry system |
| Boulot, Dodo but No Metro |
| A glance at government and developers approaches to live/work |
| Skewed Towards Demolition |
| Will the drive for zero-carbon buildings increase the destruction of old ones? |
| We Can’t Build Our Way Out |
| Andrew George MP has interesting proposals for solving the affordable housing crisis |
| Yesterday’s Tomorrow |
| Stephen E Hunt compares the proposed Barratt’s ecovilage with the Garden City suburbs |
| Transitional Therapy |
| Sophie Andrews has mixed reactions to the Transition Handbook |
| Up and Running Again |
| Jyoti Fernandes and Sophie Andrews watch two communities re-invent themselves |
| English Planning Disease Spreads to France |
| The French start to crack down on yurts and shacks |
| A Place in the Country |
| Where "open countryside" is a 24 acre fast-food factory |
| An Exemplary Appeal Decision |
| Smallholders and Group Projects |
| Selected decisions |
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The Land Issue 4 Winter 2007
| Editorial |
| The Rising Cost of Housing . . . and of Land |
| SQUATTING AND LAND TITLING |
| A Letter |
| from Kevin Cahill author of Who Owns the World |
| Papers for Paupers |
| Robert Home and Hilary Lim assess whether land-titling will lift squatters and settlers from poverty |
| Why Poor People are Evicted |
| A swift round-the-world survey |
| The Ministry of Housing Crisis |
| The French respond to rising house prices in the spirit of 1968 |
| Has Anyone Seen My Planet? |
| asks Geonomist |
| FARMING |
| The FAO’s Long Shadow |
| The claim that livestock cause 18% of global warming is exaggerated, says Simon Fairlie |
| Out of the Frying Pan |
| A Nobel prize-winner claims that N2O emissions from biofuel outweigh carbon emission savings |
| A View from the South |
| Some observations from Third World Resurgence on the spread of biofuels |
| Can Britain Feed Itself? |
| And can we feed ourselves with organic agriculture?. Simon Fairlie investigates |
| Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? |
| What direction should the organic movement take if it can’t? |
| Cashing in on Organics |
| Christina Ballinger examines whether the organic boom is benefiting small farmers |
| Grumbles from the Grassroots |
| Jyoti Fernandes raises questions about organic certification: Francis Blake responds |
| The Richness of Nature |
| Dave Bangs visits a rewilded farm which doubles up as a playground for the wealthy. |
| Imperial Takeover |
| Mark Brown, Rebecca Laughton and Sean Furey explain how Wye College was asset-stripped. |
| The Scandal of Agricultural Tied Dwellings |
| Why is this loophole for speculators allowed to continue? |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Write Your Own Low Impact Policy |
| Chapter 7’s submission to W Dorset local development framework. |
| A Home for LID in Wales |
| Is there a place for low impact policies in Welsh planning guidance? asks Mark Dyson |
| The Car and the Countryside |
| James Shorten on why rural living is regarded as unsustainable. |
| Mr Urbs and Mr Rus |
| Which is more sustainable, the town or the country? It depends who you are and what you want. |
| Two Cheers for Sherford |
| Tim Gorringe thinks planners have got some things right with a new town near Plymouth |
| Affordable Housing Policy Relaxed |
| Are there changes in the rural exception site policy? |
| Small is Visionary |
| The German planning system favours green self-builders, report Brian and Sibylle Rushbridge |
| APPEALS |
| Three examples of the planning system victimizing aging smallholders; Sustainability Brings Victory for Keveral Farm and Land Matters;Five woodland homes deemed to conform to the “Country House Policy”; Whither Policy 52? Three applications have been made under Pembs Low Impact Policy, and three have been refused. |
| Book Reviews |
| How to Live Off Grid by Nick Rosen, reviewed by Tony Wrench; Ecovillage: New Frontiers for Sustainability by Jonathan Dawson, reviewed by Molly Scott Cato; Natural Building by Tom Woolley |
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The Land 3 Spring 2007
| COMMENT |
| Rioting for Austerity |
| No false messiahs, thank-you, but a voice crying in the wilderness might be helpful. |
| Very Angry Potatoes |
| If GM is spreading all around the world, all the more reason for keeping the UK GM free. |
| The Barker Review of Planning |
| The Treasury economist carries on gnawing away at democracy. |
| TLIO DRAFT POLICY STATEMENT |
| The Right-wing Campaign against the Planning System |
| The Land Is Ours distances itself from neo-liberals. |
| Nice Facts, Pity about the Ideas |
| Review of Kevin Cahill’s Who Owns the World. |
| ENERGY |
| Apocalypse Soon? |
| A review of the latest books from James Lovelock and George Monbiot. |
| Power Cut |
| Predictions of panic when the lights go out. |
| Anarchy in New York |
| HV Morton’s classic article on the New York black-out. |
| Letters |
| Taking to the hills; and on-farm bio-fuel production. |
| The Future of the Intercity Coach |
| Alan Storkey explains how coaches could be made quick, efficient and comfy. |
| UTOPIAN SETTLEMENTS |
| Pirate's Paradise |
| Larry Law’s account of a pirate’s republic in Madagascar. |
| The Rise and Fall of Ruskin Commonwealth |
| John Egerton tells the story of a 19th century Utopian fiasco. |
| Chartist Land Colonies |
| Chris Coates explains the failure of Feargus O’Connor’s ambitious land settlement scheme. |
| Ecoville |
| Tony Gosling uncovers plans for a 1990s eco-settlement. |
| La Borie Noble |
| Rebecca Laughton visits a fifty-year-old community in France. |
| Lammas |
| Jenny Pickerell and Larch Maxey outline the careful preparations for a new settlement in S Wales. |
| HOUSING |
| Urban Clearance |
| Different approaches to “regenerating” terraced housing in Liverpool and Salford |
| Housing Monitor |
| REITS; EDMOs; and Titnore Woods. |
| Land Access |
| Fordhall Farm; Register of Surplus Land. |
| PLANNING POLICY |
| How to influence your Local Plan |
| Lucy Nichol explains the new development plans and how to have input. |
| Eco-neighbourhoods |
| Planning policies for super-sustainability, proposed by the Cohousing Network. |
| PPS3 |
| The new government policy for housing promotes greenfield development by the back door. |
| Rural Baron builds Industrial Estate |
| Former CLA President Ewen Cameron benefits from CLA-inspired policies. |
| How I became a Travelling Planner |
| Simon Ruston, caravan dweller, describes his education in planning. |
| Not fit for Website Forum |
| The ministry refused to accept this submission from Tony Thompson on traveller site design. |
| Climate Change Planning Statement |
| Tough on buildings but ignores traffic. |
| Holiday Home Sophistry |
| New model conditions rule that holiday caravans are only for people with another home. |
| APPEALS |
| Hermit’s Corner; John van Loggerenberg on shacks;Argyll planners want to evict at least 20 families, and turn local residences into holiday homes; batty arguments about a reader’s barn. |
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The Land Issue 2 Summer 2006
| Contents awaiting upload |
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