Did you know that Bristol City Council recently published The Bristol Local List ? Well they have and it was done in October 2015. This followed a public consultation process where people were asked to nominate buildings for inclusion, which were assessed by the Architecture Centre and a panel of experts. What’s The Local List? This is … Read More
We are so excited that Lyn Jones has joined Planning Ventures as a Director. Having worked together at CSJ Planning as Associates Directors for a number of years we have joined forces again to continue to develop and build upon Planning Venture’s strong start as a creative and resourceful freelance planning consultancy, based in the … Read More
Planning Ventures has secured full planning permission for the partial demolition and remodelling of St Brendan’s Warehouse, one of Nisbet PLCs three warehouses in Avonmouth. Prior to the submission of the planning application the design team went through a pre app process with Bristol City Council to determine the acceptability of the proposal, the design … Read More
I’ve been working with the Avril Baker Consultancy to facilitate and manage a range of stakeholder consultations for Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group. As part of the team it’s been great talking about WCCGs 5 Year Plan, to a range of people across Wiltshire including Service personnel’s wives and partners, mums and their toddlers, the elderly, … Read More
What first peaked your interest in the built environment? I grew up on a building site, my parents bought a Georgian laird’s house in Scotland and proceeded to spend 12 years renovating it, which was most of my childhood. Working with buildings was inevitable. I used to draw them when I was a kid. Who … Read More
It’s good to talk and the consultation process is an important part of the planning process, be it for a development proposal, policy production, site allocations or highways works. Consultation moves through the primary evolution of a scheme, through the determination process, discharge of conditions and obligations, through construction and to potentially even when a … Read More
Today’s blog post is not really about planning as such, or architecture or urban design. It is more about how the temporary or permanent use of a building, place or space can be aesthetically and emotionally transformative when used in a totally unexpected, exciting or adventurous way. Having just experienced an amazing Bank Holiday weekend … Read More
The Government has published its response to the consultation exercise undertaken last year, which further extends permitted development rights to change the use of shops and banks/building societies (use class A1 and A2) to residential units, the change of use of shops to banks/building societies, extended the ability to change existing retail and commercial premises … Read More