By Stuart Campbell, Head of Energy Transactional Services at Carter Jonas. As the King unveiled the Government’s agenda to the House of Lords, ‘energy’ was one of the first references, demonstrating how important the forthcoming Energy Independence Bill is, both for the development sector and beyond. The need for the…

A holistic approach to masterplanning which takes the existing environmental parameters as its base and delivers a scheme around this. Mark Topping, Director of Design, Lanpro Any new development, and particularly an energy scheme, is at its best when it works in harmony with the natural environment, and yet many…

What needs to be done to address misapprehensions? Vasilena Bocheva, 3D Architectural Visualiser, Lanpro As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. This is particularly applicable in planning and development as without a visual depiction it can be very difficult for local residents at a consultation or…

How archaeological surveys provide an opportunity to engage with local residents By Alice James, Technical Director (Historic Environment), Lanpro Technically there is no requirement to involve an archaeological consultant at a public consultation event as part of the planning process, but the benefit of having an archaeologist present can be…

Jane Crichton, Associate Planning Director, Lanpro Within a week of last year’s general election, the then new government approved three new solar farms, at Mallard Pass, Rutland and Lincolnshire, Sunnica in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and Gate Burton in Lincolnshire. The projects could create a total power of 1.4GW – enough…

Tara Chopra, Technical Director – EIA and Major Infrastructure lead, Lanpro In the last year with the phased implementation of biodiversity net gain (BNG) as a mandatory requirement of most planning applications has had a significant impact on all planning consents granted through the local authority approvals process. And this…

Environment led multi-disciplinary planning consultancy Lanpro has secured acceptance for a Development Consent Order (DCO) application on behalf of Island Green Power (IGP) for Green Hill Solar Farm in the East Midlands. Located to the west and south of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and north of Milton Keynes, the proposed circa 1200-hectare…

National property consultancy Carter Jonas has appointed Alec Thomas as a Partner and National Head of Geospatial, alongside Simon Tarr, who has joined as a Partner in the Bristol office to bolster the national Energy Team. With over 20 years of experience in development, geomatics, and commercial real estate, Thomas…

Alice James, Technical Director (Historic Environment), Lanpro Development-led archaeology plays a vital role in helping communities to record and understand their shared cultural heritage, while also providing a necessary planning service to developers. And significantly, from an environmental point of view, modern methods of archaeological surveyors are becoming increasingly energy…

Lanpro has appointed Diane Ellis as a Regional Director to lead its Manchester office.  The multi-disciplinary consultancy offers planning, EIA, masterplanning, urban design, GIS, visualisation, historic environment, landscape architecture, ecology and arboriculture consultancy services, nationwide from seven offices. In her role at Lanpro, Diane will focus on growing the Manchester…