Is my village a sustainable community?

Rosemary Clarke: I like living in my village. There are about 500 of us. We have a pub, a school, playing fields with a pavilion and a church. There are two old post offices but no current one. Oh, and there is a very limited bus service and a train station on the edge of the village.

Why I want to be a landscape architect

My name is Milly Winterbottom and I’m currently studying Art, Geography and Psychology ‘A levels’ at Chipping Norton School in Oxfordshire. For the past six months, my future studies have been a key topic of conversation.

Making planning more accessible for local people

Nick Wates: The internet has changed the way we do almost everything and community planning is no exception. The power of the web is helping people get more actively involved in improving their own communities.

Is there a tension between sustainable development and sustainable communities?

Peter Roberts: I often get asked to explain the links between creating sustainable communities and delivering sustainable development. In many cases, people question whether there’s an apparent tension between these two major policies.