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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 [...]

NPPF: The new planning system has arrived

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

After eight months and two days since the publication of the consultation draft in July 2011, we now have the live version of the National Planning Policy Framework in force. 
So what has changed?  The difference is a more nuanced document that provides a series of concessions to a wide range of those who responded to [...]

Budget 2012: A date for the diary at last

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

The Budget didn’t quite deliver what the development sector had been hoping for – the publication of the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
However, to underpin his pro-growth agenda, the Chancellor was able to confirm that the final NPPF will now be published next Tuesday, 27 March and come into immediate effect, [...]