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This year – 2020 – has been shocking. If I try to find a silver lining, I think it might be this – that finally, the need for effective planning to address long-term problems has come under the spotlight around the world. A pandemic planning committee had been scrapped six months before coronavirus hit the UK – despite the fact that the threat from a pandemic had been known for some time. Similarly, an early warning programme to alert the government in the United States to pandemics wa...

4CG in Cardigan is celebrating its 10th anniversary. 4CG - or to use its full name Cymdeithas Cynnal a Cefnogi Cefn Gwlad or the Society to Sustain and Support the Rural Countryside” - is a co-operative organisation set up to ‘advance community development through the regeneration of Cardigan and the surrounding area’. It was established by a small group of locals that strongly felt there were many opportunities within Cardigan to increase community cohesion, enhance its surrounding...

By Flora Samuel2020-12-21T07:00:00+00:00 Flora Samuel finds some hope in taking the long view  Christmas time and the approaching new year are a good time to take stock and do a bit of reflection on the future and the long-term view. To do that you sometimes have to look back. This month we at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (Cache) published a report called Delivering Design Value: The Housing Design Quality Conundrum. It was based on extensive interviews with all the peopl...