News Archive 2006

December 2006: Barker Review published
The final report of the review of Land Use Planning has been published. Key sections cover retail and town centres policy. Associated materials are here.

See also the Eddinton Transport Study; Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and 2006 Pre-Budget Report.

December 2006: New Briefing Note: Scottish Policy
The latest in the NRPF/Insititute for Retail Studies series is available here or under Articles at the top of the page.

November 2006: Get talking - on our new blog
On our new Retail Planning Forum blog you can quickly and easily add feedback and comments, anonymously if prefered, with no registration. Your views are eagerly anticipated! See the blog here, or under Discussion on the menu bar.

August 2006: Neighbourhood Retailing Briefing Note
Another new Briefing Note is now on site, following recent notes covering Food Deserts and Clone Towns - see under Articles above or click here.

July 2006: Top 100 Shopping Centres
See extracts from the recent Retail Week survey.

July 2006: Barker Review interim report published
View it here. Our response to the earlier call for evidence for this review of land use planning can be found on this website under Articles: Hot Topics or here.

May 2006: New Knowledge Base and site changes
The Bibliography of Retail Planning has been completely revised and expanded to become the Retail Planning Knowledge Base and the website fully updated.

May 2006: Retail Planning and Competition
The Office of Fair Trading's decision to refer the grocery market for investigation by the Competition Commission cites the planning system as a major issue. See press release and report.

May 2006: Recommended reading

Three recent publications highlight regional inequalities; the impact for retail planning is worthy of consideration:

• the DCLG "State of the English Cities" report;
• the TCPA report "Connecting England" (.pdf)
• Roland Palmer's article in issue 13 of Inside Track.

March 2006: Two important reports published

The OFT's proposed referral of the grocery market to the Competition Commission focuses on the retail planning system. See press release and report here.

The All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group report High Street Britain: 2015 is also essential reading - click here to download (.pdf file).

February 2006: New members
A warm welcome to ASDA, The Co-Operative Group, IKEA and Westfield.

January 2006: Performance of the UK retail sector & the role for government policy

Rachel Griffith and Heike Harmgart of the Institute of Fiscal Studies/AIM presented preliminary research results to NRPF's Research Committee. View as .pdf

Retail Planning Policy: The next 10 years
See the programme and download selected presentations from our 10th anniversary conference or read the report in our Newsletter.