Conservative Party policy for planning: caught between the market and local communities

Whether in power or in opposition, the planning policies of the Conservative Party are caught in a tension between the free market and local communities. On one hand, the Conservatives face developers who want to simplify the planning system, speed up decision making and make sufficient land available for economic activities. All this is likely to promote a small government, deregulatory policy agenda that is, in principle at least, distinctive. On the other hand, the Conservatives face local authorities and a Conservative electorate that are keen on conserving local amenities and the local environment and that, as a result, are also keen on promoting effective systems of local consultation and effective mechanisms of development control. The tension between the market and local communities has been recurrent in Conservative planning policy since at least the 1980s and is unlikely to disappear in the near future. The tension also means, however, that Conservative proposals tend to be relatively narrow in their scope. Keywords: Conservative Party, town planning, environment

Map of research reviews: QCA Building the Evidence Base Project: September 2007 - March 2011

This is one of the major outputs of CUREE's literature review in the first year of the project to develop an evidence base for the curriculum in September 2007. As part of the Building the Evidence Base for a curriculum or the 21st Century project, this 'map' of existing reviews of research was aimed at harnessing evidence related to QCA’s new and wide ranging curriculum framework - it describes and analyses curriculum research; emerging key trends and patterns, results, methods, gaps in the evidence, and a bibliography

Grassmannian twists on derived categories of coherent sheaves

We construct new examples of derived autoequivalences, for a family of higher-dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties. Specifically, we define endo- functors of the bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves associated to varieties arising as the total spaces of certain natural vector bundles over complex Grassmannians. These functors are defined using Fourier- Mukai techniques, and naturally generalize the Seidel-Thomas spherical twist for analogous bundles over complex projective spaces. We prove that they are autoequivalences. We also give a discussion of the motivation for this construction, which comes from homological mirror symmetry

Stimulating and facilitating Norwegian RUME

International audienceMatRIC – Centre for Research, Innovation and Coordination of Mathematics Teaching is a Norwegian centre of excellence in higher education. The centre focuses on innovation in university level mathematics teaching. We foster research in teaching and learning mathematics, especially but not exclusively in the context of innovative practice. MatRIC also seeks to facilitate the networking of university level mathematics teachers within Norway and with the international community. This poster focuses on MatRIC's activity aimed at the development of research in university mathematics education. The poster sets out strands of activity within MatRIC's research programme, types of inquiry pursued, and categories of purpose.</p

Does money make us selfish?

Philip Goodchild on money, trust, and self-interest

A Proposal for the Refurbishment of the Hatfield Six-Component, Weigh-Beam Balance. Departmental Report No. 9538.

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