Planning Business Management

All the right moves: An interview with Victoria Hills

03.05.2018

Martin Read

Business & Enterprise | Campaigning & Advocacy | CEO | planners | planning | Planning Business Management | RTPI | UK | victoria hills

Victoria Hills MRTPI discusses how technology and fresh government understanding has increased the...
Career development: Building a strong team

04.01.2018

Matt Moody

Change management | Engie | Indigo | Optimis | organisational growth | Planning Business Management | Professional Development | team managament | UK

Teamwork is an essential ingredient for success in planning. At 2017's RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence three organisations were recognised for their exemplary team building. Matt Moody asked them how...
Hearts & Minds: An interview with Anna Rose

01.12.2017

Huw Morris

Economic Growth | Local Government Association | local planning authority | Northern Ireland | Planning Advisory Service | Planning Business Management | planning performance | Policy & Politics

Anna Rose MRTPI aims to challenge the status quo of local government thinking. The new head of the Planning Advisory Service tells Huw Morris about growth, good performance and female role models
England round-up: London density limits removed, Local planning study launched, HS2 for Leicester?

30.11.2017

Laura Edgar

Draft London Plan | England | Housing | HS2 | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | Planning Business Management

A round-up of planning news in England: 25 November-1 December, 2017
Freedom of contract

03.11.2017

Katie Ayre

contractor | England | freelance | Planning Business Management | Professional Development | Self-employed | UK

More young planners are becoming contractors, says Oyster Partnership's Katie Ayre - and there are definite advantages
Replacement Planning Portal makes progress

20.10.2017

Roger Milne

Department for infrastructure | Ireland | NI Planning Portal | PA Consulting | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | Planning Business Management | Policy & Politics

Progress on establishing a new planning IT system for the province was reported this week when Belfast City Council’s chief planner Phil Williams provided members with an update on the scheme.
Tribunal ruling on planning status in property decisions

24.04.2017

Huw Morris

breaches | Community Engagement | converted properties | Development Management & Enforcement | First-Tier Tribunal | Housing | Housing | Khevyn Limbajee | Leytonstone | London | London | Planning Business Management | Planning Law | Policy & Politics | private rented property licence | property licences | Waltham Forest

A tribunal has ruled that a London borough can consider the planning status of property when determining applications for a private rented property licence.
It's time to see the difference

06.03.2017

Carole-Anne Davies

Cymru | diversity | equality | international women's day | Planning Business Management

Equality underpins sustainable placemaking and should be at the heart of good planning, argues Carole-Anne Davies.
IWD: There's progress, but planning remains an uneven playing field

06.03.2017

Monica Lennon

diversity | equality | international women's day | Planning Business Management | Scotland

If we want to create truly inclusive places, we need to address inequalities within the profession itself, says Monica Lennon MSP.
What does it take to be a planner?

20.10.2016

Development Management & Enforcement | Planning Business Management | planning careers | Planning Law | planning practice | UK | what is planing

Angela Cornell, from Fisher German, is a chartered town planner working in the private sector who is working every day to ensure new developments are built well....