Jon Herbert Last November I had the pleasure of speaking at an Urban Design London 'Working with Communities' event. My slot focused on neighbourhood planning and asked why progress on this in London has perhaps lagged behind that in other part of the country. This is not to say that great strides haven’t been made over the last five years, but that perhaps more could be done to enable progress. The latest figures released by DCLG show that more than 2,000 communities acros