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...
A brand new school, desperately-needed homes for hundreds of families as well as new jobs, new business premises and a link road for the north of the city are all in a pipeline thanks to a package of land agreements to be discussed at Cabinet.
Plymouth people will reap the benefits of a deal that will herald the start of a new neighbourhood for Seaton as well as farmland and green...
Plymouth is a hot spot for developers with the city coming second only to Birmingham for the proportion of major applications processed on time.
Latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that of over 200 major applications considered by Plymouth’s Planning Committee from June 2011 to June this year, 79.1...
In a recent survey of Devon and Cornwall Small Businesses only 13% of the businesses surveyed conduct Marketing Planning and yet 90% said that they see Marketing as important to the success of their business with 56% seeing it as critical to success*.
So what’s the problem? Why is there such a huge gap between those that do and those that don’t?
The Plymouth Argyle Supporters Board (PASB) is urging all councillors on Plymouth City Council to "support our football club" and back plans for the redevelopment of the grandstand at Home Park.
Despite their concerns over the level of ambition ("many fans would have liked a larger stand built, as would we," they said), the PASB is supporting Plymouth owner and chairman James Brent's...
Dr Peter Geraghty, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), praised Plymouth City Council’s planning team as he toured the city centre last week (26 and 27 April) and enjoyed a sneak preview of the Abercrombie Exhibition.
The Royal Town Planning Institute represents 23,000 planners worldwide working in the private, public, education and charity sectors, and is...
