22/09/2021
As our colleague Lucy Williams looked at last week, the retain and retrofit agenda is well and truly in play now in the world of development management. It’s important to remember, when co... Read more
15/09/2021
Back in 2007 the president of the AIA claimed, ‘The greenest building is … one that is already built’.
This statement draws on the principle that adapting and reusing an existing bu... Read more
08/09/2021
Self and custom-build housing was first introduced as a market segment to be taken seriously by the Coalition Government in November 2011. Since then, we have had the introduction of the Sel... Read more
01/09/2021
The issue of fire safety has rarely been far from the news since the Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017. Politicians, developers and residents of the numerous existing developments found to... Read more
25/08/2021
There are few parts of planning and development that suffer more in the PR stakes than Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
Overly long documents, expensive, complicated and impenetrable... Read more
18/08/2021
Nutrients are essential to the maintenance and growth of our ecosystems and enabling organisms to flourish. However, in this instance, it is possible to have too much of a good thing…
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11/08/2021
As I write this it’s an overcast August morning, yet the UK is currently generating 17.7% of its electricity demand from solar energy, quite impressive for an industry which has only seen ... Read more
04/08/2021
Over the last year, good health has come to mean so much more than the absence of disease. As well as bringing about a fresh perspective of our understanding of health, the COVID-19 pandemic... Read more
28/07/2021
That’s what TfL think, hence their launch of the Healthy Streets in Transport Assessments (TA) guidance a little over two years ago. Iceni Transport recently spoke with Gavin McLaughlin fr... Read more