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Consolidation of Military Sites: A Town Planner’s Perspective

Posted by: Stephen Harness, Posted on: 25 January 2016 - Categories: Disposals, Town Planning

Hi my name is Stephen Harness and as you might remember if you’ve read one of my earlier blogs I’m a town planner for DIO. The Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 set out the aim that we reduce the size …

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Public planning for the Defence estate

Posted by: Rob Sanderson, Posted on: 18 March 2014 - Categories: Town Planning

We recently published a blog from Stephen Harness about Town Planning for a specific project, namely the Army Basing Programme for Salisbury Plain. Here, one of Stephen's colleagues gives us a more general view of town planning at DIO. My name is …

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Town Planning and the Public's Voice

Posted by: Stephen Harness, Posted on: 4 March 2014 - Categories: Accommodation

London’s Shard, Birmingham’s Bull Ring Shopping Centre, Gateshead’s Angel of the North and countless construction projects across the UK have all been subject to some of the same planning processes that DIO’s Town and Country Planners are involved in every …

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