Developers often find it difficult to balance the safe and practical solutions to landscaping, access routes and groundworks with sustaining ecological balance, especially when the footprint area of a development needs to be considered. With […]
One Tree at a Time: The ‘mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis
Leading scientists have discovered that planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. Interestingly, they have made calculations as to how many more trees […]
The Importance of Planning Cycle Lanes
Cycle lanes have been in the news recently as many opponents to the idea have been using misguided arguments against them. For all the (slight) progress in some UK cities over mass cycling, we are […]
RTPI to Tackle Climate Change
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) President Ian Tant used their annual conference on the 19th June to state how planners currently lack the power, resources and policies to make the impact essential to meet the […]
Recent Reforms: Planning and Change of Use
Homeowners can now extend their properties quickly and easily without the need for a full planning application. The government has announced a wide-reaching package of reforms, with the focus on providing home owners with […]
The 25 Year Environmental Plan
Our government wants to make drastic changes to the way we live our lives. This will hopefully improve the UK’s air and water quality and protect our many threatened plants, trees and wildlife species. This environment […]
Climate Change and the Environment – It Is a Challenge For Us All To Act Now
Senior Partner Allen Creedy was in London on the 1st May to meet with other leaders of business groups, civil society and charities to express support for the forthcoming Environment Bill. Read what he has […]
RTPI Awards 2019
On 24th April, Allen Creedy and Matthew Creedy both attended the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2019 where Ethical Partnership were nominated as finalists in the ‘Small Planning Consultancy of the Year‘ category. The RTPI […]
Biodiversity Net Gain – A Benefit for You and the Environment
The planning system in England may be about to change as we know it, as the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan is looking to embed net gain for biodiversity within the system. This new consultation […]
NAO Report Confirms Planning and Planners are Not Valued
The NAO’s report says that a shortage of both financial and human resources was a major issue in delivering new homes with the number of local authority planning staff fell by 15% between 2006 and 2016. Total […]
Your Planning Journey
Here at Ethical Partnership we are committed to Our Values. As such, we will always try to be equitable, fair, honest and transparent in the way we treat people. This is why we have created […]
Congratulations Peter Gillan, MRPTI!
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 […]