By Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property The dust has finally settled from another entertaining 2018 party political conference season, with plenty to mull over. One unforgettable highlight this week saw an unconventional podium walk from the Prime Minister at the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Aside from …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant The Lib Dem conference this autumn may have garnered more media attention for ‘exotic spresm’ than any policies, but this does it a disservice. While the party was still (a whopping eight years later) having to …

By Daniel Fryd, Senior Consultant Despite weeks of internal scrapping over rule-changes, anti-Semitism rows and haranguing from the right-wing press, Labour came together to actually deliver a coherent and articulate vision for their Britain at their conference last week.  Brexit …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant It’s been another memorable Conservative Party Conference with the PM’s closing speech and erratic dancing grabbing the covers of most major newspapers this week. Mrs May impressed not only with her moves but also by showing …

This month: CaMkOx corridor, greenfield land prices flourish, ONS releases fresh household projections and new Head of Chelgate Local Catch up on all the articles from our October newsletter: New head of Chelgate Local  Michael Hardware has been appointed to head …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant In his first appearance in front of the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee on 5th September, Housing Minister Kit Malthouse MP made it clear he is not planning to introduce a new mechanism for capturing …

By Daniel Fryd, Senior Consultant It’s been an eventful month for the Oxford-Cambridge arc. The route for the new Expressway was revealed, the Housing Minister embarked on a CaMKOx tour and called for “transformational” ideas to drive growth in the …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released dramatically lower household number projections than previously forecast, causing quite a stir in the planning world.  The 2014 projection, calculated by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), stated the number of households would grow …