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		<title>Elections 2012: Big Labour gains but Boris survives</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/05/elections-2012-big-labour-gains-but-boris-survives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Sutcliffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour gains most across the country but loses the big prize in London
Going into this year’s local elections, two things were certain: that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were going to lose seats to Labour and the smaller fringe parties; and that spinsters from each party would be out in force claiming that they had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS launch innovative new public consultation product</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/05/pps-launch-innovative-new-public-consultation-product/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/05/pps-launch-innovative-new-public-consultation-product/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Byfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the short film below to see one of the ways in which PPS Group is revolutionising consultation and engagement with communities.
For over 20 years PPS Group has been helping developers work with local communities, politicians and the media to secure planning permissions on complex sites. 
If you use the same old consultation techniques, you hear from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS Bulletin: Boris Vs Ken</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/05/pps-bulletin-boris-vs-ken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/05/pps-bulletin-boris-vs-ken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Byfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayoral contest and GLA elections enter the home straight
Londoners may have noticed tube posters and adverts encouraging them to ‘Have their say on 3rd May’. With only a day left before the Capital votes for its next Mayor and representatives at the GLA, how’s the contest shaping up?
Unsurprisingly the campaign has been labelled as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS Wales host post-election briefing</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/pps-wales-host-post-election-briefing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/pps-wales-host-post-election-briefing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS to address Institute of Civil Engineers event on achieving planning consent</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/pps-to-address-institute-of-civil-engineers-event-on-achieving-planning-consent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/pps-to-address-institute-of-civil-engineers-event-on-achieving-planning-consent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reatwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latest news and events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Localism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste & Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Energy from Waste 2012"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Eatwell, PPS Group&#8217;s head of waste &#38; 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&#8217;s presentation will begin at 10.10 on day one and will cover the following:
How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPPF: Comment piece by Stephen Byfield</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/nppf-comment-piece-by-stephen-byfield/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/04/nppf-comment-piece-by-stephen-byfield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Byfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPPF: The new planning system has arrived</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/nppf-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/nppf-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Sutcliffe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest news and events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget 2012: A date for the diary at last</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/budget-2012-a-date-for-the-diary-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/budget-2012-a-date-for-the-diary-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Sutcliffe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest news and events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS address HBF Policy Conference on NPPF</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/pps-address-hbf-policy-conference-on-nppf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/pps-address-hbf-policy-conference-on-nppf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, PPS Group managing director, Stephen Byfield sat on a panel of industry experts at the HBF Policy Conference in London to debate the forthcoming National Planning Policy Framework. Other panellists included Ben Cowell from The National Trust, Cllr Neil Clarke, Leader of Rushcliffe Borough Council and Nick Scregg, MD of Special Projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the long game on planning &#8211; Housebuilder, March 12</title>
		<link>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/playing-the-long-game-on-planning-housebuilder-march-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ppsgroup.co.uk/blog/2012/03/playing-the-long-game-on-planning-housebuilder-march-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Byfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from the March 2012 edition of Housebuilder magazine.
The government has stayed calm under fire during the rows over the new National Planning Policy Framework, says Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS Group, but will planning inspectors do the same?
There are all kinds of advantages to playing a long game so inaction dulls the attack [...]]]></description>
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