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Design Code for Waterbeach given green light
Today, South Cambridgeshire District Council approved the Design Code for the first phase of development at Waterbeach. DLA is part of t...

Mark Prestige
Jun 10, 20201 min read


Lessons from my local park
Urban Designer Owen Reading writes about the human value of our local parks and the lessons we can learn for the design of future places ...

Mark Prestige
Jun 8, 20203 min read
Virus Orientated Growth: Data Centres
Viruses are historically the enemy of computing capabilities. However, COVID-19 has caused a dramatic spike in the demand for data centre...

Mark Prestige
Jun 3, 20203 min read
Duty to Cooperate - a pitfall for spatial planning
The Duty to Cooperate (DtC) has brought several Local Plans crashing down at Examination. The latest victim being the Chiltern and South ...

Mark Prestige
Jun 2, 20202 min read
Scratching the sky
David Lock on the Department for Transport's decision to open up UK skies to advertising and messaging through skywriting and skytping.

Mark Prestige
Jun 1, 20201 min read
An ever-growing case for Green (and Blue) Infrastructure
Since moving to Milton Keynes from London two years ago my family and I very quickly grew to love the city’s park system.

Mark Prestige
May 27, 20203 min read
Rejection of North Essex Garden Communities – A bitter blow for making places
The Local Plan Inspector’s rejection of two out of the three North Essex Garden Communities again shines a light on a process that is fr...

Mark Prestige
May 22, 20203 min read
Building Council Homes: Programme Study for Nottingham City Council
Nottingham City Council was successfully awarded grant funding from the Local Government Association's Building Homes Programme to procur...

Mark Prestige
May 21, 20201 min read
Logistics post COVID-19: Why we need to love logistics
In less than 90 days, COVID-19 has changed the global logistics economy forever. For decades outdated misconceptions by Councils resulted...

Mark Prestige
May 18, 20203 min read
Where is retail? Online...at the moment
I suspect the wider recovery will begin with WACD (What Amazon Can't Do), the problem is that a lot of this is about socialising and that...

Mark Prestige
May 14, 20202 min read
Promotions at DLA
DLA is delighted to announce two important promotions. Our colleague Nick Walker is promoted to Lead GIS Specialist, whilst Owen Reading ...

Mark Prestige
May 13, 20201 min read
Delivering a new community for Banbury
Following the grant of outline planning permission in December 2019 for development proposals submitted by DLA, L&Q Estates continue to p...

Mark Prestige
May 11, 20201 min read
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