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 […]
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Fantastic news to kick off the week – Ethical Partnership has been shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) awards in the ‘Small Planning Consultancy of the Year’ category! The RTPI awards – or planning Oscars – are the most established and respected in the national planning industry. […]
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 […]
Urban planners play a key role in how the places in which we live are managed and developed. As a student, you are introduced to the key theoretical debates within planning and their application to space and place. Studying planning is like a jigsaw puzzle: each topic provides you with […]
We are delighted to announce that an appeal we worked on against the refusal of an outline planning application for new housing has been allowed by the Planning Inspectorate. The application was recommended for approval by officers but planning committee voted to refuse the application. We are delighted that the […]
Our trainee planner, Alannah, attended the inspiring lecture yesterday “On Colour in Architecture: Association and Experience” held by Fiona McLachlan, Professor of Architectural Practice at the University of Edinburgh. Fiona talked about how colour should not just be an afterthought in the design process, and an architect must always plan […]
Over the last 18 months, we’ve been working with a community group in Leeds – advising and representing them in objecting to a planning application for up to 140 new houses to be built on Green Belt land. The community were concerned about the proposals and approached us to advise […]
Gateshead Council are consulting on Part 3 of their Local Plan, ‘Making Spaces for Growing Places (MSGP)’. MSGP is the next stage of Gateshead’s Local Plan, following on from adoption of the Core Strategy and Urban Core Plan for Newcastle and Gateshead in March 2015, which forms parts 1 and […]
Ethical Partnership’s Allen Creedy and Alannah Healey were pleased to host a workshop yesterday afternoon, for students of Sheffield Hallam University, whom are studying a Masters degree in Architecture (MArch). Here, Alannah Healey, a Trainee Planner, summarises the session. The students are visiting the area to study ‘frontiers of development […]
As a planning consultancy, our work is governed by “the three Ps” of planning: People, Planet and Profit. This means that we are committed to: People – ensuring staff and associates are competent to undertake the roles and are supported as required, taking into account the views/ concerns of stakeholders […]