Account Executive Max Abdulgani is a graduate from the University of York. Whilst at university, he campaigned for a political party and managed the affairs of a parliamentary candidate and newly elected MP. Max has internship experience working with high-profile politicians at a national level and working in policymaking. He …

Mission accomplished? Labour claims planning reform victory, but will local communities be convinced? The Government wasted no time in launching its mission to ‘get Britain building again’, announcing a raft of policies to boost housing and infrastructure in its first 100 days. Chelgate Local’s Michael Hardware assesses the fast-moving policy …

The larger the project the more infrastructure is required – not an unsurprising statement, but what is surprising is the way it is delivered: developers need to engage with numerous bodies and agencies to deliver the infrastructure. A complex, ebergy sapping time consuming combination of various county or unitary departments, …

Consultation is inherently flawed: all have the same failing – by relying on residents to respond there is usually low participation, and those that do respond often have an axe to grind. The result is a skewed representation of community views which does not stand up to any level of …

Parliament returned early, on 2 September, so that the new government could get on with legislation. It rose again on 12 September for the party conferences, to return on 7 October. There has been hardly a day gone by during September without yet another announcement from the government on planning …

MHCLG has announced the new ministerial team tasked with ‘getting Britain building again’ and delivering on government’s ambition to see 1.5 million homes built over the next five years. The freshly renamed department is key to delivering the government’s mission to boost economic growth by speeding up the delivery of …

Senior Consultant Dan is currently a Senior Lecturer in Planning and course leader for the Property Development and Planning course at Oxford Brookes University, and a former councillor in Oxfordshire. As a councillor he has 25 years of experience in local government as a Town Councillor in Bicester for 24 …

Senior Consultant Chris was a Liberal Democrat county and district councillor for over 30 years, most recently leader of St Albans District Council and chair of its Planning Policy & Climate Committee. He has considerable experience in local plan making and planning policy in general. He stepped down from St …