Bristol

Green car scheme mooted for Paris, but not everyone is happy: Bristol follows Paris as UK's first Cycling City

July 18, 2008 - First came self-service bicycles, and now Paris is launching a green scheme to provide electric cars that drivers can pick up and drop off anywhere in the city. Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced yesterday that from the end of next year, 4,000 electric cars will be placed around Paris and its outskirts for drivers in the scheme to help themselves for short journeys. more >

Guidance published on how Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs) can speed up development

June 15, 2008 - A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by Planning Minister Iain Wright. It sets outs how voluntary Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs) between a local planning authority and an applicant can help speed up major developments in England. more >

All parties working together: Dove Lane, Bristol

All parties working together: Dove Lane, Bristol

The Dove Lane project in St Paul’s, Bristol, encouraged a collaborative approach in two ways: an innovative community consultation plan engaged the public, while the development partners signed a Planning Performance Agreement (PPA). By Jim Weddell, urban design director at RPS

Bristol Harbourside

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One of the most distinctive features of Bristol city centre is the floating harbour, which winds its way through the area to the north of the river Avon. Following the decline of the docks, during the 1960s, the city council had planned to fill in parts and build new roads over it. This important feature of the city's heritage was saved when these plans were shelved for financial reasons in the recession of the early 1970s

St Pauls, Bristol

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Bristol's tallest-ever building, an environmentally-friendly 40-storey tower development, could become the spectacular symbol of urban regeneration in the St Paul’s area of the city under new proposals being drawn up by RPS.

Bristol, UK

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Bristol is growing; by 2026 there are likely to be 30,000 more people living in the city. In the area surrounding Bristol (the former county of Avon), the population will increase by some 100,000. As a result of changes to the planning system in 2004, work has already begun on the Bristol Development Framework, which will guide the significant growth that will be occurring in Bristol over the next 20 years

Greater Bristol Strategic Transport Study: Atkins’ recommendations published

June 22, 2006 - The final recommendations to emerge from consultants carrying out the Greater Bristol Strategic Transport Study have been passed to officials in the Government Office for the South West, Department for Transport, the Highways Agency, the South West Regional Development Agency and the four local authorities of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Co... more >