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Archive for April, 2009

PPS and SJ Berwin co-host event with guest speaker Patrick Erwin, Head of the Infrastructure Planning Commission

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Utilities and energy companies face enormous challenges as they seek to develop new capacity. Not least of which is a new planning regime. Let PPS and SJ Berwin improve your understanding of how the new system will work at a breakfast seminar. You’ll learn and be fed!
Guest speaker will be Patrick Erwin, Head of the [...]

Conservative Housing Green Paper

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

The Conservatives today published their Housing Green Paper, setting out a framework to establish a stable and sustainable approach to delivering housing in the UK in the future. 
 
Consistent with the tone of the emerging Conservative planning policy and the recent paper ‘Control Shift; Returning Power to Local Communities’, the paper focuses on ‘incentivising’ communities as [...]

How I stopped worrying and learnt to love the recession

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I’ve set myself a diary note for 1st January 2025. It says “There’s another recession on the way including a slump in the housing market. Don’t hold on. Sell everything this year”.
Here at PPS the recession has had its impact. Like other consultancies, our income is down [...]