Unnecessary Trouble

As one of the largest independent town planning and urban design consultancy practices in the UK, DLA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the ideas and thinking set out in the White Paper.

David Lock Associates is delighted to be appointed by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council to advise on masterplanning and infrastructure, to inform the Council's work on their emerging Local Plan.

David Lock Associates has helped clients - Icon Design & Build - secure planning permission for an 84-bedroom Care Home at Harecombe Manor in Crowborough, East Sussex.

As the long autumn shadows stretch across the courtyard at North Thirteenth Street, we are settling into a new term. We do so in a world where the pandemic casts an even longer shadow; one that most of us did not dare to contemplate back in March.

DLA has won the award for plan-making at the Planning Awards 2020 for our work on the Strategic Growth Study for Milton Keynes.

DLA has been delighted to work with Sport England on their Making a Planning Application Guide, which has recently been published.

In an article for the TCPA celebrating 'Welwyn Garden City at 100', David Lock outlines the contribution of Frederic and Margaret Osborn to the development and life of Welwyn Garden City.

Driven by and named after Article 25 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25 is a humanitarian architectural charity which helps vulnerable communities around the world through design to improve health, livelihoods and resilience to disasters. Over the previous 9 years, their annual flagship fundraising event '10x10 London' has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to help them carry out their incredible work on over 90 projects in 34 countries.

David Lock Associates (DLA) has obtained outline planning permission on behalf of Mr Peter Dean and Archaylen Property Limited for 18 dwellings and related development at Coldstream Farm, Worminghall on the edge of the former Aylesbury Vale district.

This week we have been representing Hallam Land Management at the virtual South Oxfordshire Local Plan Examination in Public (EiP), the first event of its kind. The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has already expressed that similar virtual events are here to stay for the foreseeable and has recently announced the virtual resumption of a number of other EiPs as well as launching a new guide on how to participate in virtual events.