“Planning 2020”

DLA has received outline planning permission on behalf of Ipswich Borough Council, for 100,000 sq m of employment and commercial floorspace at Eastern Gateway.

Stephen Haines, Urban Design Partner at DLA, is currently engaged in an exciting fact-finding project in Yangon, Myanmar.

Two major milestones in the delivery of infrastructure at Houlton, Rugby have recently been reached, highlighting Urban & Civic's ongoing commitment to the early construction of strategic roads and schools to support the new community.

DLA's Assistant Planner Emma Woodhouse has been awarded the RTPI North East Student Award for a group project titled 'Northern Imaginaries', as part of her Masters in Planning course at Newcastle University before she joined the company in June 2018.

The final report on the Raynsford Review of Planning was launched in the House of Lords today (20th November).

In June earlier this year, DLA welcomed 20,000 worker bees and a queen to a new beehive in our garden.

Somewhat under the radar, the government published its response to the NIC’s Partnering for Prosperity in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford Arc report alongside the Autumn Budget papers.

We are pleased to welcome back Andrew Williamson who joins us as a Senior Associate to take up the position of Creative Visualiser.

“By most measures, Milton Keynes is a highly successful place: growing population, strong average earnings, high Gross Value Added, lots of new businesses, more jobs than workers, etc, etc.

DLA will be at Cardiff University and the University of Birmingham Careers Fairs this week looking to recruit graduate planners and urban designers.