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Welcome
Welcome to the technical website for the Regional Planning Body in the North West, which is 4NW, The Regional Leaders Forum.
This site provides detailed background information on Planning, Transport and Housing issues within the context of Spatial Planning at a regional level - especially in connection with Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) and Regional Housing Strategy.
> Regional Planning
The following pages provide information on the processes involved in producing the Regional Spatial Strategy for the North West and set out an overview of the process undertaken in preparing the Regional Spatial Strategy and the work involved in implementing and monitoring the strategy...
> Transport
The region's transport networks are responsible for moving large numbers of people to and from work and for ensuring that goods and services are distributed throughout the North West, the wider UK and overseas. However, road traffic accounts for around 22% of CO2 emissions in the region, and nationally, transport is the sector where CO2 emissions are increasing...
> Housing
The North West is a varied and complex region and the housing issues in the region reflect this. With the greatest levels and concentrations of non-decent and obsolete housing in the country, measures to tackle existing stock in the North West need to be a combination of improvement and clearance...
