Obtaining planning permission can be be both frustrating and rewarding – and at the same time! This is one of our occasional articles designed to help you navigate through getting that essential planning consent! The […]
Meeting the needs of people with special needs – inclusive planning
Its great to welcome Tom Morgan as our new associate. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of how the urban environment can be designed to be inclusive for those with special sensory and […]
Join the audience for Brexit “Question Time” – Wallsend 3rd June
Allen Creedy one of our partners will be joining the panel of a ‘Question Time’ event on the 3rd of June to debate the in/out EU referendum. TyneMet College and the FSB have teamed up […]
Extending a listed building – go contemporary or copy?
There are two choices to extending a listed building: do something completely different or celebrate what is already there. Your choice will depend on your aspirations, what you want to achieve and what the local planning […]
Tips for auto-enrolment pensions
We all have to do it: whether with one employee or one thousand – all employees must all be enrolled in a workplace pension scheme. April 2016 is our first month operating a workplace pension […]
Try walking to work – surprising what you see!
Newcastle upon Tyne is a great city both for living and working. It’s small enough that I can walk from my home in a northern suburb of Newcastle to my office, just east of the […]
Landscape design provided for Ouseburn housing
We’re so pleased to have designed the landscaping for the first homes to be built in the heart of Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley in more than half a century. The doors have opened to 42 new one-bedroom […]
‘Stopping up’
We have been busy preparing and submitting plans to close redundant highways. These are called stopping up orders. Some planning applications need old roads to be closed and new ones to be built. These orders […]
Bats in the belfry?
We have been waiting for Spring for surveys for Great Crested Newts to be carried out on a large expanse of woodland in the north east. When certain applications can be submitted along with supporting […]
Thinking about building your own home in the open countryside?
In that case the house will come under Paragraph 55 clause of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). There is no template for this type of project, every house proposed needs to be truly outstanding […]
Simplifying local plans – have your say
Proposals to speed up and simplify the process of making Local Plans open to the public for representations until 27 April 2016 In September 2015 ministers launched a panel of experts – the Local Plans […]
Durham Plan – second chance to have your say
Durham County Council politicians were asked this week to agree the way forward for the County Durham Plan, currently in limbo. This followed the development plan’s withdrawal after a legal challenge to the planning inspector’s […]