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Nick Diment is a director in Boyer Planning’s London office On 9th December 2024 the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) published the second in a series of working papers, on the topic of planning committees*. The paper invites views on how the government could reform planning committees to support a plan-led system

Wates said that the move will provide pension fund members with increased financial security in the longer term. There will be no change to members’ benefit entitlements resulting from the transfer, it said. As part of the transaction, Wates will make an investment of around £19m and Clara will provide additional capital, collectively increasing the

Planning approval for Oxfordshire County Council’s HIF1 Didcot and surrounding areas infrastructure project was granted by the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government Angela Rayner, following a planning inspector’s report recommending that the scheme proceed to construction. The scheme was subject to a public inquiry earlier this year. Oxfordshire County Council  have

Market conditions have continued to be challenging across all sectors, Van Elle reports. Workload has been subdued in the rail sector as it transitions from the CP6 to CP7 regulatory investment period. Road building continues to experience project delays with the Department for Transport reviewing the national roads programme. And the impact of the Building

McLaren Construction’s Yorkshire & North East leadership team is (left to right) David Faulkner, Andrew Beaumont and Richard Harding McLaren Construction has recruited former ISG regional director Andrew Beaumont to head its new Yorkshire & North East division. Joining Beaumont to run McLaren’s new division are regional commercial director David Faulkner, also from ISG, and

CGI of an LNT care home development LNT Construction is a part of Leeds-based LNT Care Developments, which is currently the UK’s largest developer of care homes, turning over more than £200m a year. Over the past 30 years, LNT (named after founder/owner Lawrence Neil Tomlinson) has developed more than 230 sites with a built

Secretary of state for housing Angela Rayner [Image from MHCLG/Flicker] Taking planning permission powers away from elected representatives and giving them to council staff is one of the options in a consultation paper from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. The Planning Reform Working Paper: Planning Committees sets out a range of options

Clean green paving machine Through a combination of materials, manufacturing and machinery, Tarmac and its supply chain reduced carbon emissions on the A64 for National Highways by 75% per cent compared to a traditional maintenance project of a similar scale – without resorting to offsetting to massage the numbers. The trial was on the repair