Insights & Reports

A new movement is gaining pace in farming. It’s even found its way into farm policy. Yet it remains opaque, nebulous and slightly hard to define. In this paper we look at Regenerative Agriculture, and where it might cross over with other schools of farming thought.

Despite peatland restoration being near the top of the natural capital management agenda and millions of pounds being invested in the practice, there is no real definition of what peatland restoration actually is.

Whether you’re a developer looking to meet biodiversity net gain requirements or a landowner looking to make use of land with no development potential, natural capital investment provides a plethora of opportunities.

Since the turn of the millennia, the office and the laboratory stock for commercial businesses in the city has more than doubled in size, and that just shows you the kind of demand for space.

A recent statement by Natural England provides hope that a solution to Nutrient Neutrality may not be too far away.

Senior Planner, Billy Palmer, kicks off the first blog in our series ‘Sites for Sore Eyes’, discussing how urban environments are impacted by the demand for schools and other educational facilities.

Today’s Budget saw the Government recommitting to its innovation agenda after Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, announced that public funding for R&D (research and development) will increase to £20bn by 2024/5.

After two years of online CPD sessions, virtual catch-ups and seeing people through screens, the Thames Valley RTPI Young Planners Committee brought the Young Planners Conference back with a bang!

Principal Planner, Ben Pridgeon, discusses the use of Planning Performance Agreements and why they are becoming increasingly important in planning applications.

Across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc, and the east and south eastern regions, Bidwells continues to see strong demand and competition for residential development sites.

The Environment Act 2021 mandates all new developments in England to provide a 10% uplift in biodiversity, to be maintained for a 30-year period. DEFRA’s biodiversity metric uses habitat type as a proxy, placing a value on the biodiversity a habitat is likely to support by allocating ‘biodiversity units’.

The Norfolk Councils have published their long-awaited Norfolk Nutrient Budget Calculator, alongside revised maps of the relevant Catchments, devised by Royal Haskoning DHV.