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Category Archives: Flashback to Cliff’s Planning columns

Unfilled posts and poorly targeted employment initiatives

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

My column in Planning in 1987, has a contemporary feel in 2020 as issues of mass unemployment and Council cuts come to the fore once again. A Director of Planning post left unfilled to save money. Doing away with planning. Why I gave up on RTPI Council. The interplay of place and class in labour markets. This…

Amsterdam, Formation of AESOP and a trip to a Planning Committee

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

My “Diary” article in 1987 records the formation of the Association of European Schools of Planning, AND of the Scottish Torquay United Supporters Club (which has not proved as long-lasting). The article was first published in Planning on 11 December 1987 and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editor. To see more of my old…

Lord of the (Pineapple) Rings

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

In a week when my term of office as President of the Royal Town Planning Institute came to a close, I also faced being made redundant. This largely inconsequential article that I wrote in 1997 is redeemed by the photo of me wearing my Eric Cantona T-shirt while meeting a pirate. It also provides some…

Berlin, June 1989

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

A chance to read my monthly Diary in Planning from June 1989, which starts in Berlin just months before the Berlin Wall came down. It also looks at the Adam Smith Institute’s ideas for privatising streets – an idea that might be revived post-Covid19? Of course there have been many gated communities developed in the meantime.   This was…

A high rise future?

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

My article in January 2000 looked back and gazed into the future. How well did I do in anticipating change in British cities, planning and higher education? This article first appeared in Planning 14 January 2000. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.

The Stern report 2006: an economic case for action on climate change

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

The Stern Report in 2006 seemed to signal a shift in attitudes to climate change. The article imagines a discussion between a Treasury mandarin and a businessman. Would this case convince Donald Trump or big business today?  This article was first published in Planning on 1 December 2006, and is reproduced by kind permission of…

Inauguration speech as RTPI President 1996

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague20. January 2023Leave a comment

This was first posted in 2016. Twenty years ago I became RTPI President. Here is the text of the speech I gave to RTPI Council on my inauguration. It ends by reaffirming the manifesto published in 1975 by the Radical Institute Group, of which I was one of the founders. After thanking the RTPI, my…

Convenor, RTPI Scottish Branch, 1983

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague20. January 2023Leave a comment

I was elected Convenor of the Scottish Branch of the RTPI for 1983. The picture shows how the Branch’s magazine reported it. Between 1975 and 1987 the Radical Institute Group (RIG) produced a manifesto backed by a slate of candidates in RTPI elections and also contested some Branch elections. In standing against the sitting vice-convenor…

A public services watershed

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague20. January 2023Leave a comment

This first appeared in Planning on 16 January 2004 and is reproduced by kind permission of Planning Resource.

Planning and politics

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague19. January 2023Leave a comment

This first appeared in Planning on 29 November 2002 and is reproduced by kind permission of Haymarket Publications.

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