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However, Conservative shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: "This planning framework pushes development to rural areas, concreting over green belt, green fields and over our green and ...
Historically, planning applications were submitted in paper form to designated Council offices and displayed for a statutory period at public libraries or offices. In December 1995, the London Borough of Wandsworth created a website that published electronic images of planning application documents. This technology greatly improved access to ...
Stoke-on-Trent remains part of Staffordshire for the ceremonial purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty. [8] In 2002 the council adopted a new form of executive arrangements, having a directly-elected mayor and a council manager, one of three possible options outlined in the Local Government Act 2000. Stoke was the only council in the country to ...
The Local Government Act 1972 created areas for local government where large towns and their rural hinterlands were administered together. The concept of unitary units was abandoned with a two-tier arrangement of county and district councils in all areas of England, except the Isles of Scilly where the small size and distance from the mainland ...
Labour is waging a “war on rural England” with its overhaul of planning rules, the Tories have argued. Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake claimed the “majority” of homes built to ...
Bromford is a housing association providing affordable housing and specialist housing support services. The businesses covers a wide geographical area, predominately Central England and the South West, which includes Gloucestershire, the West Midlands, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.
Over the past 10 years, rapid growth has emerged in this small rural community with new private housing. It consists of mainly residential houses and farms, one RC school- Sacred Heart PS, Tattyreagh St. Patrick's Gaelic Athletic Association club, Darcy Park, and a public house. Cutting through the area is one main road leading from Omagh to ...
The area around the green, the original village of Wombourne, evolved as the commercial and cultural centre. The green was surrounded by small, independent shops, which remain a distinctive feature of the village's commercial life. A new civic centre, housing local council services, was constructed near Lower End, just south west of the centre.