We are excited to share that Ross-on-Wye Neighbourhood Plan has been named as a finalist in the category for Excellence in Plan Making at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence 2021! Throughout the project, a variety of active community engagement activities were used to collect truly local evidence to produce a…
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THREE projects shortlisted for a planning award!
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…
Enhancing Tree Coverage through a Neighbourhood Plan
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.…
Neighbourhood Planning during the Coronavirus Pandemic – Referendums
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…
Neighbourhood Planning Champion
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…
Place Studio Shortlisted for RTPI Award!
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…
Neighbourhood Planning and the Revised NPPF
We have been familiarising ourselves with the recently updated National Planning Policy Framework, especially in relation to Neighbourhood Planning. We are pleased to see the importance of Design Quality being reinforced, with the NPPF highlighting that ‘Neighbourhood plans can play an important role in identifying the special qualities of each area and explaining how this…
Your Neighbourhood Plan is ‘made’! It’s the end of the beginning…
Once made, a Neighbourhood Plan becomes part of the planning authority’s suite of Local Development Documents. In principle, this gives any Neighbourhood Plan as much status in determining applications as the Local Plan. The hard work, examination and referendum are over and your community now has a made Neighbourhood Plan – well done! But that is not the end;…
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