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Community Land Trusts – 2011 Conference – Are you going? #CLT11

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Last June I had the pleasure to attend the CLT10 conference and heard Grant Shapps talk about the Community Right to Build for the first time. I wrote at the time about how not for profit development trusts including the CLTs should talk to the construction industry, including architects and developers, about how to make [...]

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Community Land Trusts: Lets start Talking to the Enemy

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If there’s one thing I know about Community Land Trusts now it is that they are made up of people who have got off their backsides and done something. If you put aside your prejudices, that’s pretty much the model of the entrepreneur property developer, really. Something very interesting is going to happen to the [...]

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What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections

German Pavilion Barcelona

All good designers are great at joining things together. A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by Kevin McCloud in a recent episode of the UK TV programme Grand Designs. I say disappointing because the essence of the German Pavilion [...]

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What’s that big Green Button?

I love doing things online. I’m very practical about it; the main reason is that it allows me to spend time with my family instead of getting up at some godawful hour and eating a poor breakfast in a dank hotel with a load of suits. So any opportunity to network online is ok by [...]

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How to get Planning Permission – Without any surprises

Everyone wants planning permission. Why? Because it adds value to their property and enables them to achieve their objectives. Getting a good planning consent is not as easy as it used to be, and if you are going to reap the benefits, you will also be taking the financial risk of making the application. All [...]

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What I know about ‘Small’ Wind Turbines

Last year one of Barefoot & Gilles Architects’ new buildings became the first in Suffolk to have a Gazelle Wind Turbine, to comply with Ipswich Borough Council’s new 10% Renewables Policy. The building is the New 30,000 sft Headquarters for MSC (UK) Ltd, the agents of the world’s second largest shipping line, Mediterranean Shipping Company. [...]

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Planning Permission – Getting Information Online about a Site’s Planning History

Are you interested to find out more about the planning history of a site in England or Wales? You might be considering purchasing a site, or want to get planning permission for a development or alterations to a property. Getting planning permission via your local authority is usually the first task for any development work [...]

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Where is the business case for Sustainability?

Three unconnected events have got me thinking. Constructing Excellence recently launched their Essex Club in Chelmsford and I attended. The stated objective of CE is to demonstrate that long term, integrated collaborative working in the UK construction industry is better than going lowest-cost, a route that many contractors currently fear we are returning. CE aims [...]

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Looking for Sites – More Information

In a follow up to my post about clients looking for land, we have received some specific information from one particular client. The basic requirements are: Town Centre location Main road frontage Site area of 1-1.5 acres Some form of visual amenity nearby (Parkland/Water etc) Locations we are looking: Upminster, Essex Brentwood, Essex Leigh on [...]

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Our Clients are Looking for Sites

With all the negative press in the construction industry you might think that no-one was developing, but this is not the case. We recently illustrated Social Bookmarking

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