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Planning appeals ‘stacked in favour of developers’.

“The current planning system remains largely focused on a dialogue between developers and local authorities, with community groups, concerned bodies and individuals often unable to find the time and resources to adequately promote their point of view”

Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/02/08/planning-appeals-stacked-in-favour-of-developers-91466-28130154/

God game: SimCity urban planning taken to terrifying extreme

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/16/god-game-simcity-urb.html

"TheImperar's over-meticulously constructed Sim City 3000 island paradise/hell is "inspired by the wheel of life and death" and supports an apparently unheard-of six million+ population"

Activity Logs - Finding Out How You Really Spend Your Time

"How long do you spend each day on unimportant things – things that don't really contribute to your success at work? Do you KNOW how much time you've spent reading junk mail, talking to colleagues, making coffee and eating lunch? And how often have you thought, "I could achieve so much more if I just had another half hour each day."

And are you aware of when in the day you check your e-mail, write important articles or do your long-term planning? "

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_03.htm

Rumney Rec: Packed meeting protests [against] £22m school bid

"The battle to save a popular community parkland continued last night at a packed public meeting.

Campaigners from Rumney Recreation and Eastern Leisure (RREEL) action group, which has spent four years fighting Cardiff council’s plans to build a £22m school on Rumney Rec, gathered at Rumney and St Mellons British Legion."

Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2011/07/11/rumney-rec-packed-meeting-protests-22m-school-bid-91466-29030020

Work due to start on Wales’ tallest building

"As previously reported, the 24th and 26th floors will be taken up with a bar and restaurant that will offer panoramic views of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and the Bristol Channel."

Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/04/14/work-due-to-start-on-wales-tallest-building-91466-28518237/

(The corollary being that anyone who isn't in the building gets a view of a building.  Or gets their view blocked by a building.)

The Psychology behind Llanishen Reservoir ‘Rubbish Tip’

"Threatening the residents of an affluent North Cardiff suburb with the creation of a rubbish tip in their back garden, with everything that involves including an up-turn in another sort of wildlife (think seagulls and rats), is just about as distasteful a plan WPD could have brought to the table.

It also makes the second choice seem a lot more palatable.

Choice two is to sell the land for redelevopment into housing."

http://cardiffcitizen.co.uk/2011/01/15/the-psychology-behind-llanishen-reservoir-rubbish-tip/

e-Petition: Recall Local Development Plans in Wales

"We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh government to recall all Local Development Plans across Wales and to scrap the use of population projections issued by the Statistical Directorate that are used to inflate housing numbers in local development plans. We call for all LDPs at whatever stage of development to be halted immediately in order to bring the level of housing growth in line with genuine local needs."

http://www.assemblywales.org/gethome/e-petitions/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=590&showfrm=1#SignPetition

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