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  • Modest vacant building fulfills its development potential
  • Biodiversity net gain becomes mandatory
  • Demystifying the planning and design process – Part 1
  • Fallback approval secured in Derbyshire Dales
  • Success for new agricultural building
  • All the world’s a stage, Derby’s theatrical tradition
  • Electrifying partnership with Down to Earth Derby
  • Change of Use creates specialised grocery store
  • Building the Future Sustainably: Exploring Straw Bale Construction
  • Great Northern Classics – Driving our heritage
  • Three is the magic number for Class Q applications
  • New rural home – thanks to Class Q
  • Planning pedigree – permission secured for redevelopment of a former kennels within the Green Belt!
  • Statements of Heritage Significance
  • Success for heritage holiday lets
  • Subdivision and conquer
  • Green belt opportunities
  • Heritage update winter 2024
  • We’re recruiting – Part I & Part II Architectural Assistants
  • We’re recruiting – Planner
  • We’re recruiting – Heritage Planner/ Heritage Consultant
  • We’re Recruiting – Graduate Planner
  • Barn storming Green Belt success!
  • RIBA House of the Year 2023
  • Old barns, new homes
  • Planning permission boosts rural business near historic hall
  • Lawful Development Certificate secured for farm shop
  • Successful appeal secures new home
  • 2023 – the year in review
  • 2023 – A Derby Renaissance
  • Farm Diversification Approval for Derbyshire Farm
  • Planning success aids school masterplan
  • Appeal success for barn conversion and extension in Derbyshire
  • Change of Use creates new stables
  • Good things come in threes – Part 3 success for our Architectural Assistant
  • Derby Market Hall – Restored and ready for business
  • Storage unit success
  • All rise – Planning fee price increase incoming
  • New life for Cathedral Green
  • Unveiling the Impact of AI in Architecture: Navigating Tools and Innovations
  • Retrospective planning permission
  • Building Stability within the Green Belt
  • Reasons planning permission can be refused
  • Arguing history with a Chat Bot
  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
  • Planning permission granted for the Royal Exchange Buildings
  • RTPI Young Planners’ Conference 2023
  • Permission secured for Peak District barn
  • High-Rise: The changing face of Derby – the sky’s the limit?
  • Dale Road delight for a vacant property in Matlock
  • Glapwell – Home is where the art is
  • Inspired design for infill plot
  • New barn boost for agricultural business
  • Collaboration for care home success
  • Biodiversity Net Gain looming large for developments of all sizes
  • Construction of New Orthopaedic Building and Demolition of Existing Workshops to Provide Replacement Parking
  • Approval for Outwoods health care village
  • Free-standing solar panels power up Derbyshire Dales home
  • There was a Crooked House…
  • Revisiting a redeveloped Lenton Gardens
  • Senior Architect joins Planning & Design Practice
  • Planning success mitigates factory fire risk
  • Raising the roof!
  • Extension granted
  • Planning success in the Peak Park for dilapidated stone barn
  • Celebrating Agricultural Shows
  • Five’s alive at Glapwell
  • Class Q success creates double dwellings
  • Further approvals at Royal Derby Hospital
  • Approval (discharge) of planning conditions process
  • Timber framed Class Q success in East Staffordshire
  • Fighting with the Green Belt
  • Class Q success at Little Owl Farm
  • Women in the City: Designing out Fear of Crime
  • Saddle up for equestrian success
  • Full planning permission granted unhindered by Class Q legislation
  • Behind the scenes of Derby Museums
  • Appeal secures garage success
  • Eurovision – 12 points to Liverpool!
  • Delivering ongoing diversification
  • In good health thanks to planning success
  • Third time’s a charm – PDP secure garage success
  • Planning permission delivers new ambulance hub
  • Artificial lawns
  • Storage success boosts business
  • Chevin Homes celebrate Dales decision
  • Positive ownership makes for post industrial opportunities – Salt Mill leads by example
  • Retrospective permission secures retaining wall
  • Redundant farm building remade as affordable home
  • Planning success powers up Microsoft
  • Team PDP football fundraiser
  • 15-minute cities
  • Class Q planning appeal success in Staffordshire Moorlands
  • Bristol micro homes deliver ‘social value’ beyond merely housing numbers
  • Delayed and dismantled – Sheffield Shipping Containers run aground
  • Class Q to transform livestock building to new home
  • Successful collaboration sees bungalow transformed
  • A picture of our past – W.W. Winter
  • Section 73 Planning Success
  • Building regulations
  • Traditional cottage reimagined
  • Solar PV Farm within Green Belt to power up to 952 homes per year
  • Paragraph 80 Planning Explained: Development in the Countryside
  • Heritage Update Winter 2022/23
  • 2022 – the year in review
  • Planning success promotes industry
  • Onshore wind given a new lease of life?
  • Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Quiz
  • Planning Inspectorate refuse planning permission for solar farm in Alfreton
  • Planning permission homes vintage vehicles
  • Architecture of the Qatar World Cup
  • Planning – A beginners guide
  • No long faces at Long Meadows Farm following double Appeal success!
  • Rural employment boost for Derbyshire Dales!
  • Enforcement matters….Part II
  • Nightlife – the changing night-time economy
  • Battersea Power Station reborn
  • Barn conversion -Class Q explained
  • Enforcement matters….
  • Planning & Design welcome new additions
  • Planning success ends wedding bell blues
  • Heritage principles inspire future design
  • Public Exhibition: Land south of Main Road, Brailsford
  • Planning Success with ‘Presumption in favour of sustainable development’ for an edge of town stable conversion in Derbyshire Dales
  • Class Q planning appeal success in the High Peak!
  • Encouraging emerging talent – Work placements at Planning & Design
  • Exceptional architecture in our everyday lives
  • Class Q success creates new homes
  • Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust to save the country’s oldest railway station
  • The Extra Mile- Planning permission secures change of use for pub
  • Alpaca your bags to Beckside Care Farm this summer!
  • Planning Permission in Conservation Areas
  • Heritage Project Update – Summer 2022
  • A bright and sunny day at Haddon Hall
  • Listed Building application delivers Derby City Lab
  • New factory design leaves no stone unturned
  • Out of the dog house! Planning permission for former Green Belt kennels
  • Making a splash with swimming pool extension
  • Football – A home for the beautiful game
  • What hotter summers mean for our homes
  • Chevin at Chellaston
  • Planning Partners to the Public Sector
  • Derbyshire – the best of health
  • Architectural Inspirations | Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
  • Constructive thinking in Derbyshire Dales delivers Elderly Needs Accommodation
  • Class Q success delivers double dwellings
  • Statements of Heritage Significance
  • Holiday Home Blues
  • Reflections on 20 years of Planning & Design
  • Club house success for Belper Rugby Club
  • Planning Success: Biodiversity gains in rural Derbyshire
  • Architectural collaboration results in double planning success
  • The future’s bright…planning success for orangery extensions
  • Urban Design – A tool for change?
  • Planning & Design celebrate 20 years
  • Appeals – Case studies
  • Appeals – a beginners guide
  • Next Level – Increasing parking capacity at Royal Derby Hospital
  • Another Class Q Barn Conversion Approval in Derbyshire Dales
  • The window is opening for protected species surveys
  • Decision overturned allows conversion to flourish
  • Heritage Project Update – Spring 2022
  • Planning permission for new Sheffield apartments
  • Planning Success: Boost for rural tourism within Derbyshire Dales
  • Microsoft Rare – Discharge of Conditions
  • Planning & Design become a RIBA Chartered Practice
  • Could Agricultural Transition and Biodiversity Net Gain be unlikely bedfellows?
  • Planning Success for Churchway Homes Ltd
  • Approval for bungalows to proceed
  • Proposed extension in Conservation Area
  • Section 73 application approved for redevelopment of Derbyshire farmstead
  • Planning permission for new home in Littleover
  • Heritage…in the balance
  • The benefits of heritage conservation
  • Class Q success in Staffordshire
  • Planning success for new dormer bungalow
  • Sweeping success with retrospective approval
  • Planning win for revised housing proposals at Darley Dale
  • The new Planning Act – Will it see the light of day?
  • Heritage is not all about the past
  • 2021 – a year in review: Looking ahead to 2022
  • Listed barn conversion approved in Peak Park
  • The Environment Bill becomes law
  • Powering up Royal Derby Hospital – Planning application for new substations
  • Plans for Elvaston Castle transformation to be submitted
  • New talent, new expertise, New Year
  • Two Years of success in the Steel City
  • Planning success for new yoga studio
  • Beautiful stone barn to become family home
  • Heritage project update – November 2021
  • In good health with new GP Surgeries
  • New extension for converted agricultural building
  • Planning Design gains planning permission for 7 apartments in Darley Abbey
  • Green shoots with planning success at Glapwell Nurseries
  • Trio of successes for PDP clients
  • Lawful Development Certificate for successful re-‘tail’ store
  • Urban Uplift – a material consideration in the determination of planning applications
  • Staycation success – Planning permission for tourism development
  • What is Class MA? Class E to Residential Applications
  • The extension of Denby Hall Business Park
  • Geoffrey Bawa: The man who changed Sri Lankan architecture
  • Planning success in the Wirksworth Conservation Area
  • The new £40m Sheffield skyscraper ‘The Meridian’
  • When is a fallback material?
  • Tales from the city – Derbyshire Life
  • Class Q success for Derbyshire barn conversion
  • Modern barn conversion – complete
  • Designing affordable homes with East Midlands Homes
  • Planning success opens up family home
  • Planning & Design – Sent to Coventry
  • The Fire Safety Bill and planning
  • Greenbelt orangery success
  • Cheshire East Local Plan (Part 2) set for public interrogation
  • Planning permission converts Public House to private residences
  • High score! Planning success for Microsoft Rare
  • Amber Valley – Alternative Spatial Strategy Options
  • What is First Homes and how does it work?
  • Planning & Design announce new Directors
  • Another stable success for Planning Design
  • Planning permission achieved for 33 homes in Heanor
  • A family affair for Derbyshire listed barns conversion
  • New multi-storey car park planned for Royal Derby Hospital
  • Prestigious new hotel checks into Sheffield’s City Centre
  • Call for sites – Derbyshire Dales
  • Changes to the Architects Act
  • Planning permission for Brookside Farm
  • New conversion is far from run of the mill
  • A great turn out – planning success supports existing equestrian business
  • Collaboration equals Class Q success
  • Heritage Highlight: From Nightingale to Nesfield
  • A stable success
  • Paving the way for Sheffield Hallam University’s Campus Masterplan
  • Secretary of State to decide fate of Derby Assembly Rooms
  • School’s Out – Planning approval for new Derbyshire bungalow
  • NDSA – Round table discussion on Government’s Planning White Paper
  • Heritage project update – April 2021
  • Covid, shopping and climate change
  • Proposed rooftop extension to provide a new operating theatre
  • Planning permission to facilitate care for creatures great and small at Derbyshire veterinary practice
  • Planning success for “The Link” at Ashbourne Methodist Church
  • Everton’s £500 million new stadium given council approval
  • Preserving the past – planning a sustainable future for Elvaston Castle
  • Office block redevelopment creates multiple new homes
  • Meadowhall’s £150million expansion plans
  • Dilapidated bungalow to development opportunity
  • Re-make, Re-model: The Reuse of existing buildings
  • Planning permission promises Turkish delight
  • Permission secured for Sheffield apartment scheme
  • 5 year housing land supply not always the ‘trump card’ for local authorities
  • Robert Evans – Save the Assembly Rooms
  • Hotel demolition advances Becketwell regeneration
  • The Legacy of “The Lady in Grey”, Shardlow
  • Housing numbers – The government’s ‘U’ turn and re-think
  • Appeal success means Derbyshire couple can stay in their dream self-build home
  • Becketwell first phase gets planning go-ahead
  • Sheffield 2021 and beyond – Post Covid developments
  • Reappraising brutalist architecture
  • Planning consent for Derbyshire bungalow
  • End of year review – Looking back at 2020
  • Livestock building approval for Derbyshire farm
  • Operating Theatre approval for Royal Derby Hospital
  • Béton House – Landmark student accommodation hits the heights
  • Gear Change review |Part II
  • Phase 2 of Chase Farm released
  • The future of Derby Assembly Rooms
  • (More) proposed changes to Permitted Development
  • Cheshire East Council extends Local Plan Consultation
  • Historic mine storage building to be converted to a 3 bed dwelling
  • Chelsea town houses collapse forces evacuations
  • Gear Change – ‘A bold vision for cycling’ Part I
  • Planning Design – ‘A new normal’
  • New road and roundabout signals start of Ashbourne regeneration scheme
  • New website showcases ‘the heart’ of Sheffield City Centre
  • The East Midlands Development Corporation – is the proposed freeport a Trojan horse?
  • RTPI’s “Re-use of Historic Buildings” webinar -Showcasing Smedley’s
  • A porch too far?
  • Arresting development for Derbyshire industrial site
  • Approval of Reserved Matters for new homes
  • New lease of life for Sheffield’s historic Gaumont Building
  • Planning applications – Moving on up
  • Summer house consent in Conservation Area
  • Ongoing restoration heats up
  • Discussing Economic Recovery with Marketing Derby
  • Developer to appeal after council rejects business park expansion
  • Woodland wonders at Callow Hall
  • Ambitious plans for Becketwell move forward
  • Towering ambition for Sheffield city centre
  • Paragraph 79
  • The retirement of Architect Richard Rogers
  • Future Homes Standard 2020
  • Mining the potential- replacement agricultural dwelling
  • Derby City Centre – Assembling the options
  • New Permitted Development Rights – some scenarios
  • Understanding Use Classes Order reform
  • Planning permission for new bungalow, Dalbury Lees
  • The Sheffield Plan – Our City, Our Future: Consultation begins September
  • Cycling networks in cities | Seville as a case study
  • Fore! Planning permission rides on Ryder success
  • Willersley Castle Hotel – a warning for our heritage
  • Briefing note: New permitted development rights and changes to the Use Classes Order
  • Growth, renewal and protection
  • Building on our International Architectural Expertise
  • Engaging with NDSA
  • Key extension granted for John Palin Grocers
  • Planning permission for treetop holiday lodges
  • Conversion of garage to home in South Derbyshire secured on appeal
  • Build Build Build
  • Planning permission for extension at Burton hospital
  • Lawful Development Certificate for residential dwelling
  • Cool running – planning permission for Sheffield office ventilation system
  • Approval in principle for new homes following virtual planning meeting
  • Investors back Derby to recover strongly from COVID-19 crisis
  • Sheffield moves to next phase of Heart of the City II scheme
  • Planning permission for restoration in World Heritage Site
  • Pragmatic and prepared – The planning profession’s response to Covid-19
  • Planning permission drives site diversification
  • Everton FC’s public consultation shortlisted for National Planning award
  • Securing stable improvements – Planning permission for new equestrian school
  • New opportunities in property arising from the lockdown
  • Planning secured for new industrial units
  • Multinational company invests £150m in Sheffield development
  • Planning for the future
  • Farming, development and planning
  • Improving tall building safety following Grenfell
  • Town planning and allotments
  • Let’s talk about 3D printing and COVID 19
  • New student development planned for Sheffield
  • Conversion of workshop units into residential use
  • New lease of life for two retail units in Macclesfield
  • The Planning System and Covid 19
  • The Impact of the Budget & Planning
  • Cultural heart planned in Sheffield city centre regeneration
  • Why Sheffield floods… and how good planning can help
  • Mitigating flood risk – Rain water management
  • Building Regulations approval – Understanding the importance
  • Farming diversification for the new decade
  • Rural Barn Conversions – Class Q 2020 update
  • Sheffield City Council – Living in the City
  • Planning Permission and Permitted Development Rights
  • The Importance of Good Architecture
  • RTPI launch Diversity Action Plan
  • Sheffield- the UK’s Latest Smart City
  • The Strutt Legacy
  • Sheffield City Council approves 38-storey building
  • ‘Farm courtyard’ design theme approved for 10 houses in Ashover
  • Park Hill: A Guide for the Future from Sheffield’s Proud Past
  • Housing Developments – Still Dominated by the Car?
  • Unlocking Ashbourne Airfield
  • Planning Success on a Difficult Green Belt Site
  • Lights, camera, action- Sheffield on film
  • Brexit is now ‘Done’ – The Outlook for Development in a Post Brexit Britain
  • Sheffield – The Green City Strategy
  • Re-embracing Derby’s waterways
  • Everton stadium plans ‘a risk’ to Liverpool UNESCO status?
  • Extending Walnut Cottage
  • Class Q Barn Conversion Prior Approval Secured in North-East Derbyshire
  • Construction of a New Country House
  • Bridging the North South Divide
  • Sheffield Call for Sites
  • Ambitious plans for site of Sheffield’s medieval castle
  • 2020 Vision – Designing the decade ahead
  • Back to the future? Rethinking terraced housing
  • Planning permission for bungalow in Conservation area
  • Callow Hall, where treetops glisten…
  • The Sheffield Plan
  • Meeting housing Needs in Wirksworth
  • Not the end of the line for historic station
  • Approval secured despite negative pre-application discussions
  • Call on government for stronger direction on climate action
  • Recent Flooding
  • Sheffield Council planning jobs under threat?
  • World Town Planning Day 2019
  • Yorkshire’s tallest building coming to Sheffield?
  • Derwent Valley Mills Management Plan Consultation
  • Backing Becketwell
  • Update on the ‘Sheffield Plan’
  • Apprentice Opportunity – Join our Architectural Design team
  • Back to nature for Planning & Design
  • Queen’s Speech plans on climate change welcomed
  • Outline Permission for 35 New Dwellings in South Wingfield
  • Sustainability at the heart of Planning & Design
  • And the winner is…RIBA Stirling Prize 2019
  • Planning Design invests in Sheffield
  • Highly Commended at the RTPI East Midlands Awards 2019
  • Congratulations to Jon – Full Member of IHBC
  • Government funding secured for enforcement handbook
  • Surveyors RECAP 2019
  • Heritage Open Days Celebrate 25th Anniversary
  • Derby’s Built Heritage – something to be treasured or is it holding the city back?
  • Over half of the UK’s principal local authorities have declared a climate emergency
  • Making a splash! Planning consent for farmhouse swimming pool
  • Open House London
  • Matlock looks at Climate Change
  • PDP study tour to Sheffield
  • Open Call for Artist Proposals
  • Normanton Road Shopping – Food for Thought
  • Factory Extension Planning Amendment – C.W. Fletcher
  • Bondholder Breakfast: Derby’s Built Heritage – something to be treasured or is it holding the city back?
  • RIBA announces shortlist for Inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing
  • RTPI report finds planning is out of sync with net zero-carbon future
  • Congratulations to Ciarán – Chartered Architectural Technologist
  • Red letter day as Listed Building Consent awarded for Derby landmark
  • RTPI to form part of new ‘high streets task force’
  • Architectural Influences Part II: British weather boarding origins and evolution overseas
  • Car Park approval in Derby’s North Riverside
  • Planning & Design secure appeal win for low carbon energy system
  • Amber Valley Housing Update – Council decides to review 500 homes worth of ‘resolutions to grant’
  • PDP Enjoy Factory Tour with Tobermore
  • RIBA declares environment and climate emergency
  • British and Colonial architectural influences in southwest Spain
  • Change in Government guidance means S106 school funding is non-negotiable?
  • Construction underway on new dwelling in Kirk Langley
  • Appeal allowed for extension and carport in Ashbourne
  • Consent granted to extend rural cottage in Biggin by Hulland
  • PDP run the Derby 10K!
  • Biodiversity Net Gain – Impact on Planning Applications
  • Garden Identification, World Heritage Buffer Zone and Other Planning Issues
  • Fire Stopping and Part B of Building Regulations
  • PDP secure planning consent for barn conversion scheme near Belper
  • PDP secures permission for 175 homes in Nether Heage, Derbyshire
  • Degree apprenticeship for town planners gets green light from Government
  • PDP secure planning consent for 35 new dwellings in South Wingfield
  • New team member – Fernando Collado Lopez
  • Derbyshire Life – Constructive Conservation
  • The Housing Delivery Test
  • Do you know about the Party Wall Act 1996?
  • Permission secured for a new dwelling incorporating historic farmhouse ruins
  • PDP secure planning consent for barn conversion in Amber Valley
  • New Dwelling Granted in Kirk Langley Conservation Area
  • Frequently Asked Question – “But I have Planning Permission, why do I need Building Regulations approval as well?”
  • PDP Secure Permission for New Sheep Dairy Enterprise at Historic Derbyshire Farm
  • Government considering key changes to the General Permitted Development Order
  • PDP secures permission for conversion of historic buildings in Longford
  • Class Q appeal in Staffordshire Moorlands establishes that modern agricultural building conversion is acceptable
  • Planning & Design Practice secure planning consent for barn conversion in Amber Valley
  • NEDDC ordered to foot £300k appeal costs for ‘unreasonable behaviour’
  • Permission secured for log cabin scheme near Matlock
  • Viability – does the new NPPF represent a seismic shift?
  • What is CDM 2015 and what does it mean for you?
  • Planning & Design help Royal Derby Hospital secure planning consent for ward extensions
  • PDP achieves consent for 100 houses in Heanor
  • Construction underway on new bunglow in Kirk Langley
  • Opening ceremony at restored John Smedley cottages
  • Derbyshire’s Hidden Architectural Heritage
  • Conversion of Rural Buildings under Class Q