This concludes for the moment, our original blog on the topic entitled 'Town Planning: Demolition'.
Arguably nobody has improved on the definition of Town Planning enunciated by the late Professor Lewis Keeble, in his ‘Principles and Practice of Town and Country Planning’, almost forty years ago.
The art and science of ordering the use of land and the character and siting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy, convenience and beauty.
From this definition some fundamental principles of successful Town Planning emerge:
The promotion of accessibility; accessibility of homes to work, shops, schools and entertainment, of industry to sources of labour, power and raw materials and so on. It would hardly be going too far to call Planning a study in accessibility.
The employment of resources as economically as possible, so as to achieve the greatest possible measure of improvement with necessarily limited means.
The separation of incompatible land uses from each other and the association of compatible or mutually helpful uses and finally
The carrying out of all development in as visually pleasant a manner as is practicable.
Planning, in a general sense, may be defined as the predetermination of a course of action. Perhaps, in a democratic society, we should be talking about Planning by demand. The problem here though is that conscious consumer wants are limited by experience and knowledge. By and large you can only want that which you know…what planners really need to know therefore, is what people would want if they understood on the one hand the full range of possibilities and on the other all the practical limitations.
We may return to this topic later as it will certainly become more relevant to Tenerife and the property investment sector in Tenerife and the Canary Islands generally.
No comments:
Post a Comment