27/11/2020
Last year, I attended the Healthy City Design congress at the Royal College of Physicians which was a fantastic venue. During the lunch breaks I really enjoyed catching 15 minutes of sunshin... Read more
25/11/2020
Over the past 10 years, local authority Design Review Panels have become more professional, while the value of design review has become better understood. Yet presenting to a Design Review P... Read more
20/11/2020
After much speculation in the press, on 18th November the government confirmed their commitment to bringing forward the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 to 2030 as part of... Read more
18/11/2020
In 2020 we have all become experts in graphs and data. But while we’re all glued to the briefings from No. 10 there has been another interesting set of numbers that all but the die-hard pl... Read more
11/11/2020
In 2019, Glasgow was named the ‘best UK city for millennials’ – in light of work opportunities, cost of living, property prices and availability of things to do. Despite this, the city... Read more
04/11/2020
The structural changes to the way we shop and the rise of e-commerce have been accelerated throughout the course of 2020. In the first half of the year, for the first time, over 30% of Briti... Read more
28/10/2020
The public’s fascination with archaeology and its thirst to ask questions about how people lived in the past is well known. Local Plans have increasingly called for archaeological finds to... Read more
21/10/2020
Well, what an uneventful year. I mean apart from us setting up an Archaeology team and an Edinburgh office; restructuring two of our London-based planning teams; winning Planning Consultanc... Read more
14/10/2020
The pressing need to deliver more affordable housing across our communities is accepted by most people, and it is becoming increasingly important as we plot our way through the pandemic and ... Read more