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Award win for Best Community Initiative

Friday, November 4th, 2011

PPS Group would like to congratulate David Wilson Homes (Yorkshire East Division) on winning the Best Community Initiative award at last night’s Housebuilder Awards for their work on Pickering Community Park.
The prestious industry awards ceremony took place at The Millennium Hotel, Mayfair, London and was hosted by comedian Alexander Armstrong. PPS Group sponsored the awards and presented [...]

LGcommunications seminar: Building new homes

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

PPS Director Mark Kerr recently presented to a room of local government representatives on how to best communicate with local stakeholders and communities on the need for additional housing in predominantly rural areas.
 
All councils have targets for additional housing to meet the needs of the growing population. Many of these new homes have to go [...]

PPS wins planning for Redrow

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Redrow Homes, a client of PPS, recently received outline planning permission from Kettering Borough Council for a mixed-use neighbourhood on land to the west of Barton Seagrave, near Kettering.
 
PPS was appointed by Redrow Homes after an initial planning application was refused at committee (despite a recommendation to approve), leading to a subsequent appeal process [...]

Communicating Sustainable Tourism

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The tourism industry will need to engage with local communities in order to fit in with the Government’s sustainability agenda, and emerge from the downturn in good shape.
 
The current downturn is encouraging more people to look at holidaying closer to home, potentially giving the UK tourist industry a much needed boost. And while the Government [...]