May 2, 2008 - Waitrose is targeting market towns and the first store will be tested in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, it has been revealed in The Daily Telegraph.Waitrose managing director Mark Price told the newspaper the retailer wanted at least half the space of the new stores dedicated to fresh food, much of it local.'What we’re aiming to do is reflect the ambi... more>

May 1, 2008 - Young people are our future. But without the chance to influence opinion, they are excluded from debates and decisions about the future of their city. They use the spaces of our city in different ways to adults, according to the My City Too campaign in the capital.  The My City Too manifesto is drawn from a two-year-long-campaign with the My City ... more>

May 1, 2008 - New research from the ippr, A Tale of Two Cities: Neighbourhood segregation by income in two urban case studies, focuses on the processes that work to divide neighbourhoods at the local level. In particular, it explores the relationship between a neighbourhood’s income profile, and the housing market. Improving infrastructure and public services ... more>

May 1, 2008 - Proposals to make the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) a statutory consultee on whether supermarket developments should get the go ahead will turn it into a quasi planning bureaucracy which may struggle to cope with the huge number of applications it will have to assess each year, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The Competition ... more>

May 1, 2008 - Liz Peace, chief executive of the BPF, has announced plans for independent research into the economic and environmental impacts of tall buildings. Tall buildings have been very much in the news recently. Plans for schemes such as The Shard have attracted a lot of publicity while arguments over the extent to which such buildings should be allowed a... more>