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Confirming the decision to bring an end to his self-titled radio show and 28-year career on Monday, 27 November, Boon informed his listeners live on air and issued a lengthy statement on social media shortly after, explaining his reasons behind the decision and his plans post-hosting. Some of these changes relate to permitted development rights (PDRs), under which development may take place under a general permission granted by Parliament without requiring an application to the LPA for planning permission. Other changes – introduced through the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 – create new some use classes and abolish some old ones. The Explanatory Memorandum to these Regulations says that transitional provisions (retaining the effect of the PDRs based on use classes in place before these Regulations came into force) will apply until 31 July 2021, when new, revised PDRs for change of use will be introduced. The Commons Library briefing Planning in England: Permitted development and change of use offers detailed analysis.

A major reason why the 2020 Planning White Paper Proposal failed to progress was due to concerns that local community input would be removed from the planning system. Community input is important but should ideally be frontloaded into the creation of the local plan, rather than in individual developments. The Government announcedin March 2021 that the proposed change to enable change of use from Class E commercial, business and service to C3 residential would go ahead, with a size limit of 1500m 2 to the change of use and a requirement that the building had been vacant for three months before the date of application. To prevent gaming, the right would apply only to buildings which had been in commercial, business and service use for two years. The new PDR is therefore subject to some conditions and limits not foreshadowed in the consultation. Other changes to PDRs were also made. Dean continued: “We’re launching a new service at Exchange Quay with AJ Bell to offer a wellbeing service for all their staff, as well as working with Capital and Centric to provide services for their residents. Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael Thank you very much, Shalini. We have two questions. One is from a colleague from The University of Manchester, Joe Ravetz, Future Cities lead at Manchester Urban Institute. The question is from Joe’s work on the global peri-urban, typically a zone of land conflict, local versus global, bypassing of communities and livelihoods. So Joe is asking you in this context of peri-urbanisation, how to start building wider knowledge coalitions in such a fragmented space. And the second is from Kenny Lynch from the University of Gloucestershire. Thank you for the great presentations. I wonder if any of the speakers could share any observations they may have on edge of city settings. Kenny’s interested in the edge of cities and how urban processes of fast growing cities bleed into the peri-urban areas, in line with Joe Ravetz’s question. The Commons Library briefing Calculating housing need in the planning system (England) offers more analysis, including the reaction to the December 2020 announcement. Changes already madeThe phrase Urban Poor refers to the new class of poverty and group of Americans which was unique to urban centers. The PPG on housing and economic needs assessment was updated on 16 December 2020 and now includes the uplift as step 4 of the assessment of housing need. The Government has published figures for indicative local housing need, using the updated methodology.

Maintaining opt outs and special designations where case-by-case decisions continue, such as conservation areas, national parks, and wildlife reserves to protect environmentally or architecturally precious land. Can cities withstand the social, economic, and migratory challenges they face today, or will a new model prove to be the answer for Americans seeking better opportunities for their families? Cities will continue to thrive, but they seem politically and economically not well-suited for middle- and working-class families of all races. Helen Tangires, "Contested Space: The Life and Death of Center Market," Washington History 7 (Spring/Summer 1995): 65. Shalini Sinha, Urban Asia Lead and Home-based Work Sector Specialist at Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), started by talking about the “I, Too, am Delhi” campaign, including the importance of having multi-sectoral partnerships and an intersectional perspective, along with the need to “demystify the technical”.MHCLG published planning guidance to accompany the Business and Planning Act 2020, covering construction working hours, extension of certain planning permissions, making current spatial development strategies available digitally and pavement licences. Many of the Levelling Up white paper’s provisions – such as those for encouraging the use of brownfield land and promoting beauty and good design – were foreshadowed in the white paper Planning for the Future. Commentators have suggested, though, that in some areas the Government might have changed its stance. For example, concerns were expressed at the time that the white paper Planning for the Future’s proposals would reduce local people’s ability to express views on, or object to, individual planning applications. The Levelling Up white paper, though, says that “[t]he ability to have a meaningful say on individual planning applications will be retained”.