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Academic takes ministers to task as transport MSc shuts its doors

Planning

Andrew Forster
17 June 2011
Former staff and students attended a reunion last weekend to mark closure of the transport planning MSc at Oxford Brookes. Headicar is in the front row, third from the right
Former staff and students attended a reunion last weekend to mark closure of the transport planning MSc at Oxford Brookes. Headicar is in the front row, third from the right

 

A leading transport academic has launched a stinging attack on current Government policies, claiming that ministers fail to understand the importance of spatial planning.

Peter Headicar made the comments in a speech to mark two events: his retirement as a reader in the Department of Planning at  Oxford Brookes University; and the closure of the University’s MSc in transport planning and other transport programmes in the department.

Headicar told former staff and students that his...

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