The Treasury's infrastructure plan is a list of projects, not a real plan with clear priorities, the public accounts committee has concluded. The... continue

Peter Stonham
Sir Colin Buchanan’s grandson, Paul Buchanan, this week paid tribute to his grandfather’s work in defining critical issues of transport... continue

Stephen Joseph, Chief executive, Campaign for Better Transport, London
Across road, rail and bus, Baroness Thatcher’s legacy on transport policy has been divisive and long-lasting. As Prime Minister, Margaret... continue

The Transport Planning Society says the DfT is undermining its own transport appraisal methods by planning to reform the Highways Agency’s... continue

Elsa Woodward, High Wycombe, HP13
The Beeching Report published in 1963 ushered in decades of railway decline. Nevertheless, shortly before its 50th anniversary on 27 March 2013, new... continue

Many greenfield housing developments are being approved across England following publication of the Government’s new National Planning Policy... continue

Keith Mitchell, Peter Brett Associates
We have seen unprecedented change in the field of transport policy and planning over the last few years, with the inevitable consequence that there... continue

Tony May, University of Leeds
It is now 40 years since the then Department for the Environment published its proposals for Transport Policies and Programmes (TPPs). The TPP,... continue

Consultants WSP have called on local enterprise partnerships to draw up strategic plans to prioritise long-term sustainable... continue

The DfT is to sweep away ‘red tape’ hampering the delivery of new housing and economic development that generates traffic on the Highways... continue

STREETSCAPE ENHANCEMENTS, extra tram capacity and some road improvements feature in a new spatial plan for Croydon town centre. The London Borough... continue

RAIL FREIGHT could double over the next 20 years – but only if local planning authorities facilitate new rail-connected warehousing. New rail... continue

Andrew Forster
Local planning authorities in London and the South East are thwarting efforts to grow rail freight by taking a much more hostile view of new rail... continue

Planning minister Nick Boles has suggested building settlements around out-of-town stations on the Government’s proposed new high-speed rail... continue

Andrew Forster
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has given the green light to a controversial plan for a major rail-connected warehousing development on Green Belt... continue

Andrew Forster
Transport has always fascinated Dave Merrett. As a child he ran the school transport society; it wasn’t all steam trains, there was Scalectrix... continue

The Government is to revise guidance on travel plans, transport assessments, and street design in England as part of sweeping reforms to planning... continue

The DfT hopes to speed up the delivery of local authority road schemes in England by scrapping the requirement for projects that connect to the... continue

The Highways Agency has published four protocols explaining how it will engage with local authorities and developers on planning. The protocols cover... continue

North Somerset Council wants developers to provide more parking spaces in residential developments. “Whilst the council recognises that... continue