


			All Planned Out? The Worldwide Impact of the British Town and Country Planning System 18 and 19 May 2007 Kate Moorcock-Abley Director of audacity, and editor of James Heartfield's Let's Build! - Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006) Some arguments from the chair, pre-conference: Multi-cultural racism, politically dead patricians, and the housing shortage 17.04.2007 Website: www.audacity.org e-mail: abley@audacity.org 9.40 to 11.00 on Friday 18 May 2007 60 years on - The impact of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act In this session, chaired by Kate, Gideon Amos, Rynd Smith, and James Stevens will discuss the origins of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act, their view of the successes and failures of six decades of planning, and prospects for the future at a time of policy innovation. Gideon Amos, Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association, member of the Planning Advisory Group at the Department for Communities and Local Government, co-author of A Programme for Sustainable Communities, and editor of Connecting England - A Framework for Regional Development - Delivering sustainable communities - through planning Rynd Smith, Head of Policy and Practice at the Royal Town Planning Institute, and member of the Planning Institute of Australia - Planning: From Collective Vision to Statutory System James Stevens, Research and Policy Officer, Conservation Department, English Heritage - Conserving privilege? - Conservation areas and social equity 60 years on - The impact of the 1947 British Town and Country Planning Act More to follow shortly... Read more... What priorities do we want reflected in land use planning? Has the notion of a distinct town and country become unsustainable? Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how people actually want to live? Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining building activity as "planning"? Introduction Let's Build! Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years James Heartfield With a foreword by Robert Bruegmann




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