The permanent exhibition floor showing Grenn Planning Studio’s board within the Professional Services HubGreen Planning’s display board is permanently on show and we will be there at all 3 annual shows.
Green Planning’s back at Grand Designs Live. Come & say hi at stand B32 – Grand Build zone
Come and visit us on Stand B32 in the Grand Build area at the NEC from the 6th to the 10th of October. We have regularly attended Grand Designs Live at both the NEC and at the Excel in London over the last few years.
We have some free tickets available. If you would like to attend to get in touch with the enquiries team about getting a free ticket to the show.
Green Planning Studio is delighted to announce the appointment of two senior planners, expanding its professional team to meet growing demand.
Graham Clark
Graham Clark will join as Associate Director (Planning). He comes from Berrys, where he has been leading its Hereford office. Graham has extensive experience of project leadership in rural development and planning law and a background in development control and economic development.
Tim Williams
Tim Williams joins GPS as an Associate. Tim is from Concept Town Planning in Shropshire and previously worked for Telford and Wrekin Council. He has extensive experience across a range of development types and sizes in both urban and rural settings, and in development control and policy.
“The demand for our services, particularly in obtaining planning permissions for clients, continues to increase. With their extensive experience, Graham and Tim joining Green Planning Studio will boost our capacity and further enhance the skills we can offer.”
Both join as Green Planning Studio enters a new phase of growth across all of the company’s areas of business including planning advice, planning applications and applications for certificates of lawfulness, appeals and enforcement appeals.
Green Planning Studio is a planning-led, multi-disciplinary consultancy based at Upton Magna near Shrewsbury, working on cases across England and Wales. The Company specialises in winning planning consents in areas of constraint.
Ruth Reed, former Royal Institute of British Architects president and director of consultancy Green Planning Studio, said authorities “will probably be expected to have their design codes in place within three years” but many lack the in-house resources to produce them, especially within that timescale. “They may be tempted to commission consultants to prepare them,” she suggested.
Ruth Reed’s book, ‘Building in Arcadia – the case for well-designed rural development’ is one of 4 finalists in the Urban Design Group Book Awards 2020. The judges noted:
Building in Arcadia: The case for well designed rural development
This year from a longer list of ten or so books we have selected four, which each distil learning from practice in different ways. Urban Lighting for People merges practical knowledge about lighting design with theory and research, Building in Arcadia documents the design challenges encountered in rurality, Walkable City Rules offers a guide for how to negotiate modal shift and Climax City offers an account of why and how cities are shaped and how we can intervene in them in an interactive way.
Planning has been obtained for a replacement dwelling in the conservation area of Ford, Shropshire. The house is to be built to full Passivhaus standards with photovoltaic panels on the south-facing rear roof. The design echoes the local brick barns with their gable upstands and soft red brick walls, however, the roof and porch will be clad in zinc to blend with the pv panels. The structure will be a twin-panel timber frame on a structural slab supported by piled foundations – necessary because the site is made-up ground.
Green planning sporting their Christmas Jumpers for #christmasjumperday2019
2019 has been another successful year winning more cases and gaining more planning permissions for a host of diverse sites. As we approach the end of the decade 2020 promises continued growth for us as a practice and many more planning permissions granted for our clients.
Our offices will be closed from 5 pm on the 24th of December 2019 until 9 am on the 2nd of January 2020 inclusively.
We have had very successful shows here before and look forward to another great show. The show is open on the 6th and the 7th of November. If you are there pop along and say hello. Tickets are Free.
