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Archive for April, 2012

PPS Wales host post-election briefing

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Find out what the results of the local elections mean for development in Wales?
When: Friday 4th May, 12.30-2pm
Where: Parc Hotel (Thistle), Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3UD  - click here for map
With special guest, former Welsh planning minister and former leader of Cardiff Council –Sue Essex
You’ve no doubt come across NIMBYs and maybe even BANANAs*, but nothing [...]

PPS to address Institute of Civil Engineers event on achieving planning consent

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Rebecca Eatwell, PPS Group’s head of waste & resources will address the forthcoming Institute of Civil Engineers event, Energy from Waste  2012, on how communications can help achieve planning consent.
The event takes place at the Deansgate Hilton in Manchester 25-26th April. Rebecca’s presentation will begin at 10.10 on day one and will cover the following:
How [...]

NPPF: Comment piece by Stephen Byfield

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Thirty years of influencing political decisions has been long enough for me to start positing a few natural laws.   Byfield’s ‘first inverse law on fees”, for example, states, at its simplest, that the lower the fee paid by the client, the higher their day-to-day demands.
Another is my law that reforming politicians always regress to the [...]