Chief Planner’s December 2021 newsletter
The government’s chief planner, Joanna Averley, in her latest newsletter to local authorities proposes that we must bring about a change in urban attitudes so that towns and cities once again become attractive places in which to live, work and socialise.
The vital importance of the freight and logistics sector to shops, households, assembly lines, hospitals and other public services is emphasised.
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