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Sixty-eight councils in United Kingdom are bidding to get one super and sixteen small casinos in their areas. Details of the casino business are analyzed.

The Metro Council, the Portland, Oregon areas regional government, voted to pass a tip fee rate for source separated organics and authorized Metro to enter into a contract with a Washington based composter for transportation, processing and composting. Metro council adopted a rate of $ 47.50/ton at its transfer station and $ 39 for transportation and composting and also $ 8.50/ton to reload materials into long haul containers.

Strategic spatial planning in England had barely started before it was scrapped by the Coalition government in 2010. Might it have made a difference? With devolution to city-regions back on [...]

A new framework promises to help London manage population and economic growth and tempt business and residents eastwards. Matt Ross reports. Project: London Riverside Opportunity Area Planning Framework (OAPF) Organisations [...]

The statutory development plan being developed for Greater Manchester will aim to identify potential key locations for housing within the city-region's ten local authority areas, the Association of Greater Manchester [...]

Plans for a regeneration scheme in Hampshire have been boosted after a land transfer deal was signed between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Portsmouth City Council. Contracts have been [...]

Consultancy Taylor Young has been commissioned by Cheshire West and Chester Council and Oakmere Parish Council to prepare a community-led planning framework for the village of Oakmere. The framework is [...]

Almost three-quarters of councils have allocated employment sites that have not seen development in more than a decade, according to a new report. The study, by planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield [...]

Consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners has been appointed by East Lindsey District Council to carry out a detailed study into whether there is a need for increased food retail provision [...]

Liverpool City Council and the government have signed off the first of the deals that ministers hope will bring clearer leadership in England's cities in return for devolved powers. The [...]

A consortium of 7N Architects and Michael Laird Architects has been appointed by the City of Edinburgh Council to masterplan a new neighbourhood. The council said that the vision for [...]

Consultancy GVA has been selected to advise Thurrock Council on its property portfolio. The council has asked the firm to analyse its property assets - and those it will get [...]

City of York Council has pushed back its timetable for making a decision on a controversial outline planning application for a retail-led out-of-town scheme, citing the need to resolve a [...]

The Scottish government, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Housing Association and urban regeneration company Clyde Gateway have appointed a team led by planning consultancy Barton Willmore to produce a delivery framework [...]

Developer Forth Ports has signed a deal with economic development agency Scottish Enterprise and City of Edinburgh Council to draw up a masterplan for a new port at Leith. -------------------- [...]

Consultancy GVA has been appointed by Swindon Borough Council and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to carry out Community Infrastructure Levy viability studies. It has also been appointed [...]

Plans to set up a public-private joint venture company to carry out regeneration projects in Torbay in south Devon have been hit by the withdrawal of the preferred private sector [...]

Cornwall Council is seeking to launch a shared equity loan scheme intended to help boost affordability for first-time buyers. Under the scheme, the council would allow a developer to sell [...]

Planning consultancy Laurence Gould Partnership has been chosen by Epping Forest District Council to study the local glasshouse industry and help the council develop planning policies for glasshouse manufacturers. -------------------- [...]

Cheshire West and Chester Council has selected Muse Developments, a division of construction company Morgan Sindall, to deliver a scheme intended to regenerate Chester's city centre in two stages from [...]

A planning team has transferred from housing and regeneration quango the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) to Milton Keynes Council as part of a move to return development control powers [...]

Uttlesford District Council has appointed design and consultancy firm the Landscape Partnership with leisure consultancy Ploszajski Lynch Consulting to complete a sport and recreation strategy for the district The work [...]

An inspector has allowed two Gypsy pitches in Cambridgeshire after concluding that they would not undermine the viability of a dressage training centre, but refused six further pitches due to [...]

Edinburgh City Council said it has appointed accountants Deloitte to investigate allegations relating to the 'awarding of property conservation contracts and other services' by the council. The council has suspended [...]

The Royal Docks in east London and a site covering the regeneration areas of the Wirral Waters and Liverpool Waters are among the first four of the Government's enterprise zones [...]

Housebuilder CALA Homes has begun an appeal against Winchester City Council's decision to refuse it planning permission for 2,000 homes near the city despite losing its second judicial review of [...]

Developer St Modwen has submitted an outline planning application to Burnley Borough Council for a mixed-use development at the former Lambert Howarth site. The proposals for the 2.8ha site include [...]