In 2025, the UK Government’s Future Homes Standard (FHS) will become mandatory. This comes after the previous government consulted on an uplift to energy efficiency standards for new homes in 2020. The initiative aims to decarbonise new-build homes by 75-80% …

Developments regarding the reform of local councils continued apace and the contentious move by the UK Government towards the creation of mayoral combined and unitary authorities remained at the forefront of minds within the planning and development world. Whilst some …

Chelgate has been providing political engagement and community consultation support to our clients for over 35 years. Over the past decade, we have worked on approaching 100 projects totalling over 50,000 dwellings. Our Midlands region includes Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire …

Chelgate has been providing political engagement and community consultation support to our clients for over 35 years. Over the past decade, we have worked on approaching 100 projects totalling over 50,000 dwellings. Almost 27,000 of those dwellings, some 58 projects, …

Chelgate has been providing political engagement and community consultation support to our clients for over 35 years. Over the past decade, we have worked on approaching 100 projects totalling over 50,000 dwellings. Almost 27,000 of those dwellings, some 58 projects, …

December was a hugely significant month for planning as the government introduced the English Devolution White Paper and the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) revisions. First to be announced was the NPPF revisions on the 12th of December. The document …

  Key Issues: The publication of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Planning Reform Working Paper on Planning Committees on the 9th December, 2024, opens the way to the streamlining of planning application decision making in England …

  Key Issues: On the 13th December, the Labour Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, set out a plan, (Clean Power 2030 Action Plan: A new era of clean electricity, which can …