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Archive for November, 2009

PPS Director to chair NLA debate at National Conference 2009

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

The NLA National Conference 2009 takes place 20-21 November in Birmingham City Centre.
PPS Director, Rebekah Paczek will chair a debate on how regulation and tenant expectations are changing the way landlords operate and set out their ideas to make renting the tenure of choice. The panel will include policy experts from the NLA, Shelter and [...]

PPS breakfast seminar with Sir Simon Milton

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Yesterday morning at a breakfast seminar hosted by PPS Sir Simon delivered a clear message that London must grow and maintain its status as the best big city in the world league.   
There are big housing numbers outlined in the annex to the London Plan which demonstrate the scale of the ambition for the Opportunity [...]

Fat Duck meets Little Chef

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

We are big fans of Heston Blumenthal at PPS.   He is the inspiration for our in-house quality programme, Operation Heston, and we gave meals at his restaurant, The Fat Duck, as prizes for staff who had delivered work of particularly high quality – at least we did until the recession intervened.
So I really enjoyed watching [...]

PPS’ Head of Waste & Resources to address Environment 09 conference at QEII centre

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

environment 09: creating the climate for change
Monday 9 – Tuesday 10 November 2009 | QEII Conference Centre, London SW1
Join a senior audience of environmental specialists from local, government and business at environment 09. The environment is the event for anyone involved in adapting their business or organisation to climate change, or those who want to [...]