If you really must build a wall, why not make it green? I’m not sure about you, but I am not a fan of staring at a blank wall. I’d much rather admire the plants. One of the challenges of any development is balancing safe, practical solutions to groundworks, landscaping […]
Jo Rogers
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Work Experience My name is Zak and I am a student at Whitley Bay High School, my Uncle is a planning manager at Ethical Partnership. At the start of the week I honestly didn’t know what to expect and what goes on in planning. Every student at WBHS gets an […]
CONGRATULATIONS to EP team member Peter on being elected to membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute, planning’s professional body. In our second piece of good news from the RTPI this week, we learnt that Peter’s diligence, perseverance and talent has paid off. We are privileged to have this wonderful […]
A project by Newcastle University’s Professor Roger Burrows has been ‘digging into’ the trend for basement developments in London. His work follows on from that of Prof. Steven Graham, which looks at the “luxified skies” resulting from high-specification apartment blocks. The proliferation of planning applications for elaborate basements between 2007-2017 […]
We are assisting with the Planning and Heritage aspects of the project, drawing on the expertise in renovating, preserving and reusing historic buildings we have gained on projects throughout the Northeast and beyond. We are assisting with the Planning and Heritage aspects of the project, drawing on the expertise in renovating, preserving and reusing historic buildings we have gained on projects throughout the Northeast and beyond.
A disused high-rise office block is an unlikely candidate for housing a school – but we recently attained permission for exactly that. The benefits of this approach include reusing brownfield land, minimising travel distances, freeing up land for other uses, and the potential to provide an educational facility where traditional constraints would make it impossible to do so.
Northumberland County Council are preparing their Local Plan, which will run to 2036. What does that mean? (And why would anyone be interested?) Every local council has a duty to create a strategy that takes into account things like how the area’s population and economy are likely to change, and to […]