Plymouth City Council has scooped three top awards at the 2016 Royal Town PIanning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence.
The ceremony was held in London on Thursday 5 May 2016 and the Council won Local Authority Planning Team of the Year, the Excellence in Planning to Deliver Housing Award for the Council’s Plan For Homes, and the Silver Jubilee Cup, the RTPI’s most...
The ambitious Plan for Homes by Plymouth City Council which aims to deliver 5,000 new homes over five years, is the 2016 winner of the Royal Town Planning Institute’ (RTPI) Silver Jubilee Cup, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious planning award.
Some of the 5,000 homes will be built on council owned land identified and released for development and the scheme will target institutional...
Plymouth City Council’s ‘Plan for Homes’ has won a top regional planning award and has been shortlisted for a national award.
Plan for Homes won the overall award in the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) South West Awards for Planning Excellence. It has also been shortlisted for an RTPI national award in the category ‘Excellence in Planning to Deliver Housing’.
Plympton residents are being urged by a local school to support their planning application for a 3G football pitch.
Ridgeway School on Moorland Road has submitted its planning proposal for the state of the art astro pitch. There now follows a period where the general public can comment on the application.
At a recent public consultation there was a very positive response to the...
A building programme of new toilets is being rolled out across the city.
Two new sets of loos with sea views at Richmond Walk and Devil’s Point are among a round of planning applications that have just been submitted to planners.
Existing facilities near the local shopping centres at Southway, Whitleigh and Crownhill will be demolished and replaced.
It’s full speed ahead for plans to turn an empty building in Whitleigh into a head-quarters and business centre for the Four Greens Community Trust.
Planning permission has now been granted to transform the Whitleigh Care Home into a thriving centre for small businesses and a community space, creating around 60 new jobs in an area that has traditionally suffered high levels of...
Plymouth University has received planning permission for a £14m state-of-the-art research centre for life-changing health and medical research, at the headquarters of its Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Plymouth Science Park.
Contractors will be appointed in May and work will commence in June. The entire project, including the refurbishment of existing laboratory,...
A planning application for listed building consent to install LED lighting in and around the historic lighthouse together with spotlights from the ground as well as around the balcony has now been submitted.
Councillor Mark Lowry, Cabinet Member for Finance and Assets said: “I am delighted this scheme has got to such an important stage.
People in Barne Barton are becoming town planners and will shape development in their area for the next two decades.
Instead of the Council’s Planning Service putting together a plan and asking local people what think about it, residents have joined forces to create their own plan that will shape development in the future – whether that’s where to build homes, business premises or...
Councillors at Plymouth City Council have decided to scrap plans to develop a Gypsy and Traveller site at Military Road in Efford.
Part funding and planning permission had been secured for a 10 pitch site but now councillors believe a historic commitment not to develop the site for this purpose should be honoured. Instead, it is intended to protect the land from development by creating...
