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Plans Revealed For Taunton Regeneration

Regeneration specialists, St Modwen, have unveiled a new set of plans to regenerate a derelict market site in Taunton.

Firepool is a vital link in the chain of Taunton's wider regenera...

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Controversial Plans Revealed For Euston Station

HS2 has revealed controversial £2 billion plans to extend Euston station. The plans will see up to 11 new platforms built in a building to the west of the existing station. The plans also include i...

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Secretary of State Asked to Intervene Over Remodelling Plan

The Secretary of State has been asked to intervene on a permission granted for the £70m "remodelling" of a shopping centre in Milton Keynes, which will add some 100,000 squa...

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Plans for 130 Homes in Buckinghamshire Frozen By Communities Secretary

Communities secretary Greg Clark has stepped in to stop the approval of plans for 130 homes in Buckinghamshire.

Despite a conflict with the neighborhood plan, which did not allocate the sit...

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World Town Planning Day 2015

Professional planning organisations worldwide will be marking this year's World Town Planning Day with an online conference.

The event seeks to:

  • promote the aims, object...
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Maidenhead Regeneration Given Green Light

A £250m regeneration scheme for a key site in Maidenhead town centre was approved in a unanimous Council vote. The decision will see over 600,000 sq ft of new offices, retail and homes delivered in...

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Trip down memory lane

Fresh from announcing our latest product, Cedrec Planning, we've been thinking about how far we've come and rather coincidentally stumbled across a nostalgic press cutting from our archiv...

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Average FFI invoice rises 40% in three years

The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Fee for Intervention (FFI) scheme has come under criticism as new figures have revealed the average cost of an invoice issued is...

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Safety neglect leads to big fine for Sussex company

East Sussex-based company Southern Piling Limited have been fined after the discovery it had been operating a powerful rig without a safety guard around the rotating auger.

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Huge demand for 1 pound homes

In 2013, Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson began a scheme aiming to regenerate the deprived parts of the city. As part of that scheme, many empty homes were offered for sale for only £1, and so far over...

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Heritage thieves beware!

The Sentencing Council has announced new guidelines regarding theft which includes, for the very first time, theft of historic objects or loss of the nations heritage. The n...

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Hadrian's Wall repairs underway

The National Trust has started to repair and rebuild a 23 metre section of Hadrian's Wall which collapsed due to visitors walking on it and removing stones.

Hadrian's Wall is a Wo...

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Northern Ireland say no to fracking

Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has imposed a no-fracking policy into planning guidelines for Northern Ireland, saying that the decision adopts ''a sensible and reasonable approach....

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Britain pledges billions to help poor countries tackle climate change

Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged that almost £6 billion of the UK's annual foreign aid budget will be spent on tackling climate change in poor countries. Between April 2016 and March 2...

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Chemical firm fined after factory explosion

Chemical firm Catalloy Ltd has been fined following a hydrogen explosion at their factory which saw a vessel lid blown through the factory roof and left a worker with minor injuries.

The co...

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