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Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - Promotes high quality design and architecture to raise the standard of the built environment.
London to South West & South Wales Multi-Modal Study - Information on the structure and progress of SWARMMS, a long term transport strategy study.
The Planning Inspectorate - Explains the work of the Inspectorate in appeals and other casework under planning, housing, environment and highways legislation.
The Planning Portal Programme - Provides information about the forthcoming Planning Portal, a gateway to town and country planning information.
Planning Portal - Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
British Government Panel on Sustainable Development - Recent reports and a description of the Panel's function.
HAT-GO-RounD Newsletter - Provides information on Government policies which may affect the work of the Housing Action Trusts, updates on the progress made in regenerating estates and items of interest to HATs and other regeneration programmes.
ACES - Association of chief estates surveyors and property managers in local government. Contains a list of branches, news, publications, and a forum.
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Planning and Development Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Planning and Development "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Planning and Development "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Planning and Development In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Planning and Development A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Planning and Development Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Planning and Development "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Planning and Development The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Planning and Development A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Planning and Development Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Planning and Development "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Planning and Development War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Planning and Development "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Planning and Development All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Planning and Development Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Planning and Development Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Planning and Development "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Planning and Development There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Planning and Development He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Planning and Development A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Planning and Development A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Planning and Development
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