Now that the dust has settled following last week’s County Council elections, how has the political landscape changed?
Broadly speaking the 35 Councils contested last week, tended to be rural or southern – traditionally Conservative areas. Prior to the election, the Conservative Party controlled 28 County Councils and has subsequently lost control of 10. Eight of [...]
PPS helped secure a planning committee consent in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea last night. The re-development by Martin’s Properties will create a new restaurant and residential units on the King’s Road in Chelsea.
After much anticipation and speculation, today the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, granted a development consent order (DCO) for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C proposals for a 3,260 MW power station is the largest Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) to have [...]
The article below is taken from February’s Housebuilder magazine.
Spotting the signal through the NOISE
I am still working my way through the large pile of Christmas books stacked by my bedside. In between the traditional post festive fare – ‘My Time’ by Bradley Wiggins and ’50 Sheds of Grey’ – is the book I really wanted [...]