Smarter Growth

  • Nicholas Falk on BBC Oxford

    4 September 2014

    The day after URBED and collaborators won the Wolfson Economics Prize, Nicholas Falk was interviewed by Malcolm Boyden on BBC Radio Oxford. They discussed what impact the ideas in URBED’s Garden Cities proposals would have if they were applied to Oxford and Central Oxfordshire. You can listen to the interview here until Thursday 11 September….

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  • Reviewing the Green Belt (Press Release)

    22 July 2014

    “The Oxford Green Belt was created in 1955. It cannot be right to claim that this 60-year old policy should never be reviewed to see if it is still appropriate for today and the next 60 years. How Green Belt policy will meet the challenges of the future at least needs looking at.

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  • Reviewing the Green Belt: disaster or distraction?

    22 July 2014

    Many of us involved in planning issues believe that we are in something of a Titanic situation in Oxfordshire. The course we have been following for the past few decades is heading for a number of environmental icebergs. These include energy availability and cost, climate change, air pollution, health issues, traffic congestion, social inequality and despoliation of the landscape we hold so dear.

    To confine the debate to the arrangement of the deck chairs when what is desperately needed is a change of course, seems naive and complacent.

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  • Postcard from Uxcester Garden City: doubling our housing output

    7 June 2014

    HOW OUR GARDEN CITIES COULD YIELD SMARTER GROWTH by Nicholas Falk The announcement of the shortlist for the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize will once more throw the spotlight on garden cities as a way of meeting housing needs. It also raises the issue of why the UK has found it so hard to build good…

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  • Overheard at the report launch

    12 April 2014

    “Wouldn’t it be great if people in the Oxfordshire villages looked over their Cotswold stone walls at the new development in the fields behind and said ‘You know, I’d love it if our children could bring up their children here’.”

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  • Another Oxford Mail article

    8 April 2014

    This Oxford Mail article brings together Oxford Futures, Ian Hudspeth’s Connecting Oxfordshire and the Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA).

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