Articles

As well as our newsletters, research reports and other longer publications, from time to time the NRPF commissions shorter though-piece articles on hot topics. The Forum also submits responses to official consultations where appropriate.

These are collected below:

• Response to consultation on draft National Planning Policy Framework
• Response to consultation on DCLG Draft Statistics Plan
• Response to consultation on proposed National Planning Policy Framework
• Education for Retail Planning - a scoping paper addressing this area of particular concern
• Extending the Competition Commission's findings on entry and exit of small stores in British high streets: implications for competition and planning policy - paper by Professor Neil Wrigley and others published in the journal Environment & Planning A (2009 volume 41, pages 2063 - 2085). This paper has been made available to members of the National Retail Planning Forum by kind permission of the publishers, Pion Ltd
  
• Evidence-based Retail Planning and the Need for Data - a thought-piece written in light of the emphasis on evidence in draft PPS4
• Response to consultation draft PPS4 - prepared by the NRPF Research Group
• Traditional Retail Markets - Response to Communities and Local Government House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry
• New Views of Secondary Shopping - a book afterword by NRPF Chairman Chris Brearley CD
• Response to Barker Review of Land Use Planning
• Planner, Where Art Thou? - thought-piece