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Skills boost for planning authorities to create better neighbourhoods

|Date: 21 March, 2023

Skills boost for planning authorities to create better neighbourhoods

More skilled planning professionals will be recruited by councils following a £1m funding boost from the ...

More skilled planning professionals will be recruited by councils following a £1m funding boost from the Government, announced by the Housing Minister. Social enterprise Public Practice will use the m ...

21 March, 2023
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Planning for a greener future

|Date: 31 January, 2022

Planning for a greener future

Increasing numbers of climate emergencies have been declared in recent years, further increasing attentio ...

Increasing numbers of climate emergencies have been declared in recent years, further increasing attention upon the need to mitigate the environmental impact of development. Whilst COP26 has renewed p ...

31 January, 2022
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Housing Minister says UPRNs should be ‘baked in’ to streamline house buying and selling

|Date: 23 June, 2021

Housing Minister says UPRNs should be ‘baked in’ to streamline house buying and selling

Speaking at last month’s GeoPlace annual conference, the Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP, the Minister for ...

Speaking at last month’s GeoPlace annual conference, the Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP, the Minister for Housing, acknowledged that the widespread adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) ...

23 June, 2021
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Will digital technology in planning be one of the legacies of COVID-19?

|Date: 20 April, 2020

Will digital technology in planning be one of the legacies of COVID-19?

Delving into the impact the outbreak will have on planners, Jonathan Bainbridge and Nigel Hawkey, Plannin ...

Delving into the impact the outbreak will have on planners, Jonathan Bainbridge and Nigel Hawkey, Planning Partners at Bidwells, discuss whether the use of digital technology will be the way forward i ...

20 April, 2020
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