Our two young planners Paul and Sian attended Friday’s RTPI Young Planners’ Conference in Bristol. This year, the Conference considered the challenges facing our future with key discussions on housing and population, infrastructure challenges and environmental resilience. Hot topics for discussion at the Young Planners Conference included the radical solutions such as Garden Cities and…
A new waste management planning policy, published yesterday, means councils can no longer give special consideration to ‘locational needs, or wider economic benefits’ as justification for building waste facilities on green belt land, the government has said. For more information please click on the following link: Green Belt Update 2014
GP Planning have submitted a Planning Application and Environmental Statement to Derbyshire County Council for a Surface Coal Mining Scheme near Clay Cross. The scheme will be worked over a 3.5 year period and restored to agriculture and nature conservation benefits. The coal will make an important contribution to help keep the ‘lights on’ in…
