Winning planning consents in areas of constraint
On Saturday 27th Ian Leighton, one of our senior architects, will be giving a presentation at the National Self Build and Renovation Centre at 14.15 on
‘Should my new house be Passivhaus – A guide to the how and why of Passivhaus to help you decide’
Entry to the centre and workshop is free. Further details at:https://www.nsbrc.co.uk/whats-on/our-workshops/passivhaus-workshop/
Green Planning Studio will be at the Holiday Park and Resort Innovation Show 2021 on the 10th and 11th of November.
Matthew Green will give a presentation on ‘Maximising your Land Use’ at 13.15 on 10th November.
The show provides a chance to catch up with the team to discuss your project and find out more about what the Company can do to help you make the most of your land. Come and see us on Stand 1120.
Contact us if you need help with your land.
The Practice is part of the permanent exhibition and will be taking part in the 3 annual shows, the first of which is on 15th and 16th October. Ruth Reed will be presenting on Winning Planning Consents in Areas of Constraint at 2.00pm on 16th October and will be holding face to face pre-booked meetings with people seeking advice on planning and architecture throughout the show. Details of the show can be found at https://www.nsbrc.co.uk/the-national-self-build-and-renovation-show-october/
Book your free tickets
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.
If you have any questions about obtaining planning permission on a difficult site, architectural design or any of our other services then please pop along to our stand and say hi.
If you have a project you are thinking about we would love to hear from you this year. Contact us
Green Planning Studio is delighted to announce the appointment of two senior planners, expanding its professional team to meet growing demand.
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 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.
Matthew Green, director at GPS, said:
“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.
GPS Director, Ruth Reed, has been quoted in Planning Magazine about how LPA’s will need resources to produce Design Codes.
How planners should approach the new requirement to produce design codes, with advice from @DesignForHomes, @PeterStuddert, @BolgarB, @ruthreed01, @mskiely: https://t.co/DcPLaN50Pj pic.twitter.com/TvPk7Q3T1u
— Planning Magazine (@PlanningMag) February 19, 2021
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:
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.
Read more at https://www.udg.org.uk/events/national-urban-design-awards/2020/national-urban-design-awards-2020
Ruth’s book is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Arcadia-well-designed-rural-development/dp/1859468969 other book retailers and the RIBA bookshop
One of our Directors, Ruth Reed, has been interviewed for World Architecture Day by Frame Technologies about her work as a self-build architect and her interest in self-build homes.
World Architecture Day is a global day dedicated to celebrating architecture.
If you would like to find out more about our services that are geared towards self-build homes please get in touch
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.
