Street Furniture – rundown of 20 leading UK companies
When I am on holiday I like wandering around the streets and looking at the landscaping of public spaces. We have recently (2025) been to London and Madrid and both…
Site Development – Trade by Trade Sequence
Again I wanted to have a baseline overview of the stages of a larger housing development - again a non-residential development would follow a similar route. This will dovetail with…
Procedural Overview of Permission Administration for site through to Completion (UK Planning authority focus)
Much like an order of trades for actually building out houses on a housing site there is an order of adminstration that needs to be managed when site construction really…
Scottish Government publishes new Guidance on Housing Land Audit
Importance of the Audit The Housing Land Audit is an annual count of future housing coming forward and a record of historical completions on former site. It is a principle…
Postgres 4 Planners : Housing Land Audit Automation
Simple Question : Using automation can we get an idea of completions on Scotlands Housing Land Supply sites only from open source data? Here I use the Ordnance Survey's Open…
Overview Planning Application Preparation Flow Chart (Local/Major) – UK / Scotland
Prior to even submitting a planning application a significant amount of information needs to be collected. Time and money needs to be budgeted for this process. I have attempted to…
Scottish Govt – Development Types .. Planning Performance Data
The Scottish Government requests that all planning authorities within their jurisdiction classify applications according to a particular development type which they defined in correspondence to Local authorities. Planning Performance Statistics…
Scot Gov Planning Policy – Overview and Links
PANs / Circulars / Creating Places and Designing Streets are more specific derivations of the principles laid out in NPPF4 and Scot Gov Planning Policy PAN(s) – Planning Advice Notes…
Methodology Compound Interest Calculation (Updated October 2023)
Most legal agreements relating to land deals and developer contributions contain a paragraph that allows for the return of moneys if money collected by an authority has not been spent…
IDOX – Using Public Access to Find Planning Applications
This Guide in PDF FormatDownload . A significant number of authorities in the UK have the same software that allows members of the public viewing access to most of their…