The High Streets Task Force is an alliance of place making experts that providesencouragement, tools and skills to help communities and local government transform their high streets. Experts are experienced and respected professionals, at Member or Fellow level of their respective professional body. Experts; • Visit specific high streets and town centres to work with…
At the end of the end of this week the consultation on the Planning White Paper closes. As a team we have been engaging with the wider profession to discuss and debate the proposed changes in the White Paper and have contributed to responses from organisation. There are a number of challenges and opportunities that…
We are so pleased to share the brilliant news that Georgina has become a Chartered Town Planner, the ultimate qualification for the profession awarded exclusively by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). Georgina joined Place Studio back in 2017 when she worked part time as she studied for her masters in Urban Planning at UWE. Following her…
RTPI South West and RTPI Midlands Awards for Planning Excellence 2020 We recently submitted three projects to the RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) Regional Awards, so we were as pleased as punch that all three were shortlisted! The regional Awards for Planning Excellence celebrate projects and people who have helped create exceptional places and improved…
This week, Place Studio turns ten years old! We can’t believe a decade has passed since we set up our business here in Bristol. Whilst we had been planning an exciting field trip (and prosecco!) to mark the occasion, we are all still celebrating this happy milestone from home. Appropriately, we are spending some time…
As the Woodland Trust points out, trees are critical for the future of the planet and for our own wellbeing, health and happiness. The protection of existing trees alongside an aim to increase tree coverage in the Parish was a core objective of the Cam Neighbourhood Plan, a large village and parish in Stroud District.…
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, all referendums are now cancelled until May 2021. We have worked with a number of Neighbourhood Plans that are now stuck in this limbo period. Although it is frustrating not to proceed to the final hurdle of ‘making’ or adopting the plan with the referendum for the next year, updated…
We have a Neighbourhood Planning Champion on our team! Through the Neighbourhood Planning website, Locality facilitates a network of neighbourhood planning experts and ‘champions’. Neighbourhood Planning Champions are people across England who have a wealth of knowledge and experience in neighbourhood planning and neighbourhood development orders. As a result of her broad experience in neighbourhood…
We have been shortlisted as Small Planning Consultancy of the year for the Royal Town Planning Institute Awards 2020. The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence are the longest-running awards in our industry and we are honoured to be shortlisted alongside some excellent small consultancies – tough competition! We won back in 2015 and would be…
The report of the government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is now out and there’s some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the good news, and hold your breath about that word ‘beauty’ that we Brits are almost embarrassed to use (though we seem happy with ‘ugly’). Rather than starting off the…