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When good design and planning comes to life!  🏗 Great to see this commercial project on the corner of Chapman Way rise out of the ground with the completion of the super structure and initial fix cladding – the devil’s in the detail though! We are confident that the potential offered by this prominent site in Tunbridge Wells will be brought forward by Compound Real Estate, with help from the project architects, DMWR Architects Ltd and project managers, Quartz Project Services and KLW overseeing.  

When good design and planning comes to life!  🏗 Great to see this commercial project on the corner of Chapman Way rise out of the ground with the completion of the super structure and initial fix cladding – the devil’s in the detail though! We are confident that the potential offered by this prominent site in Tunbridge Wells will be brought forward by Compound Real Estate, with help from the project architects, DMWR Architects Ltd and project managers, Quartz Project Services and KLW overseeing.  

🗞 We are excited to begin work on a new project in Essex with Croudace Homes Limited, supported by Wardell Armstrong LLP (part of SLR), FINC ARCHITECTS LTD and KMC Transport Planning - let's get planning! 🏡 #dreamteam #townplanning #newproject #urbandesign #architecture #transportplanning

🌨️ Wishing we were back in the sunshine! Christopher Sampson on site last week in St Leonard's ☀️

👋 We are delighted to welcome Owen McLeod to the Practice – Owen joins us from Heatons and is looking forward to getting involved in a wide range of commercial and residential projects and has already settled into the Team – welcome aboard, Owen! 🏡

What a great initiative from the Royal Town Planning Institute 🏡🏠

🏡 Well, that's a wrap for today's excellent and well attended event by the Home Builders Federation, with a range of speakers - expert in their respective fields - underlining the general feeling of optimism within the industry. It’s early days for the new administration - we’re only three months in - but thus far the new government is committed to unlocking the planning system and to delivering new homes and economic growth: positive stuff! Proof of the pudding will of course, be in the eating / in delivering, but with a more favourable economic outlook the underlying theme from the conference is that there is grounds for positivity : long may it continue 🍮 Perhaps we can have our cake and it eat...!! 🍨

KLW's Julian Black is at Savoy Place today for Housebuilder Media's 2024 Housing Market Intelligence Conference. The conference is debating the key issues facing our industry in this time of both opportunity and challenge. There will no doubt be some great insight into the current climate with the new government, with a strong panel of speakers including Stewart Baseley, Chairman of the Home Builders Federation, Lord Gavin Barwell to give a political take on things, Santander’s chief economist Frances Haque, and David Smith, economics editor of The Sunday Times. Keep an eye out for our reflections after the event 🤓 #newgovernment #housebuilders #urbanplanning #housingfinance #NPPF #NHBC #townplanning #newhomes

🌨 🏡 Being a town planner means getting out there on site, come rain or shine...and given the British weather, it tends to be the former! Julian Black here in a rather soggy field, exuding unwavering dedication, as always 🏡 🌧 #greatbritishweather #townplanner #townplanning #urbanplanner #newhouses #newhomes #greenfield #RTPI #NPPF

🥐 One of our Directors, Christopher Sampson, attended a #BiodiversityNetGain breakfast seminar yesterday, hosted by Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP in #TunbridgeWells – it was insightful and helpful to discuss experiences to date including from land management and commercial perspectives. The impacts of the ‘machinery’ of #BNG have still to be fully felt as this feeds through the planning system – potentially very significant implications on local authority resourcing, viability and ultimately housing delivery especially on constrained urban sites 🏡 ...And thank you to TSP for the pastries! 🥐 #urbanplanning #townplanning #newgovernment #housingdelivery #greenbelt #brownfield #greybelt #landmanagement