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- What has the environment ever done for us?
- (no title)
- ‘A menu of opportunities’
- ‘Housing for the many’
- ‘The Land of the Many’: a Labour policy with interesting implications
- “Building back better” after lockdown?
- “Next stop, all change (of use) here”!
- “Our world is local” – new website launched
- “Right homes – right places – right type!”
- “The loudest voices we hear…” How planning for the future changes local engagement and democracy
- “Tony was a force of nature. By any stretch of the imagination, the truest of working-class heroes.” Chris Roberts, Cratus Senior Political Counsel, pays tribute to the late Tony Pidgley
- “You get on with Brexit, and we will run the country.”
- [On-Demand Webinar] Back from the Brink: How Northamptonshire County Council Balanced the Books
- 100 Days Later – Local Elections 2019
- 100 years after the Addison Act – what has changed?
- 2021 Elections – A challenge for Labour?
- A (political) defence of The White Paper
- A brave new world – virtual meetings are just the start of ways for councils to use technology
- A bridge too far?
- A forum for Bristol’s future
- A lost generation of aspiring homeowners – how do we make sure they are heard?
- A new chapter for Leeds
- A New Housing Delivery Strategy for the WECA Region
- A new role – and thinking beyond the unimaginable
- A New Vision for Portsmouth
- A new week, another election pledge. The battle lines are drawn.
- A pioneering force: Bristol demonstrates innovation in commitment to meeting affordable housing targets
- A rip roaring Zip Line win!
- A Tale of Two Planning Consents Won Last Night
- A Ten Minute Rule Bill in a week full of political ups and downs
- A Tory meltdown – but not just for the reasons you think
- A vision for social housing: for developers and local government
- A weekend in Warwick: an ode to local government
- A Winter of Discontent?
- All change on the Dorset coast
- All Change!
- All Elections Matter
- All eyes on Khan as Labour’s first big test
- An Insight from Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
- An Insight from Scotland Policy Conference
- An insight from: Cllr Danny Beales, Cabinet Member for Investing in Communities and an Inclusive Economy, Camden Council.
- And then there were two….
- Another week, Another Unanimous Approval
- Anstee takes up public affairs role at Cratus Communications
- Approval for Al Noor
- Approval for linked sites in RBKC
- Are Developers the Answer to Council Financial Woes?
- Are housing targets too high?
- Are things going to plan??
- Are we about to see a resurgence in council house building across the capital?
- As You Like It or a Comedy of Errors? A new South Warwickshire Council
- August By-election Report
- Autumn Statement 2014
- Aviation Communities 2020: From the Ground Up
- Beare Green Success
- Bias in planning?
- Big Decisions Loom for Southampton
- Birmingham to pursue greater role for Compulsory Purchase Orders
- Birmingham: The Challenge
- Blacklisting in the construction industry
- BNTVA’s campaign for recognition boosted by Rochdale Councillors
- BNTVA’s Parliamentary Launch
- Boost for new homes in Charnwood as outline permission granted for 133 dwellings
- Boris Johnson’s New Deal
- Boris, Housing and Labour’s Dichotomy
- Brexit and local government
- Brexit construction risk
- Bristol: The City & The Growth Challenge
- British Attitudes Survey
- Budget 2015
- Budget 2015: London’s reaction
- Budget 2017 – A Planning Perspective
- Budget 2020 – What does it mean for planning and local government?
- Budget 2021: The Breakdown
- Building back better can only be achieved if we tackle these big issues
- Building communities – the case for change
- Building reputation through creating communities – a spotlight on events
- Business Breakfast with Sir Albert Bore – Leader of Birmingham City Council
- Business continuity in an age of Coronavirus: How we can help
- By-election report – December
- By-election report – September
- Can Bristol’s One City Plan unite industry in a common goal?
- Can Goldsmith confound Labour’s London strength to secure mayoralty victory?
- Can Kent cope with 5 times more housing than other UK regions?
- Captain Sir Tom Moore – will tomorrow be a good day?
- Casting off from Westminster: Devolution and local powers in the United Kingdom
- Celebrating International Women’s Day: How Cratus Strives for an Inclusive Work Culture
- CEOs on Commercialisation
- Chairman May – Is municipal housebuilding due a resurgence?
- Change is afoot for Local Government
- Change is coming to the Dorset countryside
- Change of Tune at Labour Party Conference this Year
- Change on the cards at BCP Council
- Changing the Face of London’s Planning System and the “Plantech” revolution
- Cherkley Court application approved
- Chiltern & South Bucks Local Plan withdrawn
- Chris Hossack joins Cratus
- Chris Roberts, Deputy Chairman of Cratus Communications to get freedom of the Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Chris Tinker, former Interim CEO at Crest Nicholson, one of three key appointments at Cratus Communications
- Climate Emergency 2020 – Beyond the Declaration
- Coming to Croydon
- Commercial Development succeeds in Harrow
- Committee Members Briefing – Getting Your Application Over the Line
- Community Consultation – Creating a Positive Planning Process
- Community events: a cornerstone for building new communities
- Conference reflections: how local can you go
- Consultant Award
- Consultation praised in Wokingham
- Consultations in an uncertain world
- Could local government be next in line for a cyber-attack?
- Could Mayor’s Free Port offset the effects of Brexit in Tees Valley?
- Could the “Yellow Halo” be the Lib Dems salvation?
- Could We All Do A Little More?
- Council uptake of EV charging infrastructure stalls despite opportunities
- Cratus – developing talent, building for the future
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Buckinghamshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Cambridgeshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Oxfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Bedfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Berkshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Essex
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Hampshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Hertfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Kent
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – London
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Surrey
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Sussex
- Cratus Account Manager, Charlotte Platten, wins top PR award
- Cratus Achieves 94% success for clients in 2015
- Cratus at Conservative Party
- Cratus celebrates 100% planning success in 2011 with new brochure
- Cratus celebrates a second July success with a unanimous approval in Kingston
- Cratus CEO nominated for national PR Leader award
- Cratus CEO, Nick Kilby, joins Enterprise Ireland UK to discuss the changing landscape of the UK public sector
- Cratus Chairman interviewed in The Independent
- Cratus Communications celebrates young talent
- Cratus Communications expands South West operations
- Cratus Communities celebrates its one year anniversary at Arborfield Green Summer Fete
- Cratus Communities welcome in the festive season at Arborfield Green
- Cratus director new Leader of RB Kingston upon Thames
- Cratus donates dream Scalextric set to Children’s charity
- Cratus Exec Director Sean Anstee in conversation with WSP
- Cratus expands its cross-party leadership to strengthen its strategic advice
- Cratus helps spread the word about “Web of the Week”
- Cratus hosts Democratising Planning through Technology roundtable
- Cratus hosts Secretary of State in energy debate
- Cratus in conversation with London Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe
- Cratus in conversation with Peter Cardwell
- Cratus in Manchester – supporting Place North West MIPIM alternative and welcoming our new hire
- Cratus Launches Digital Service
- Cratus launches pre-app political reports on UK land and property
- Cratus London scores a hat-trick!
- Cratus London win – City Hall approves Kensington Forum redevelopment
- Cratus London’s May Hat-trick
- Cratus makes the case to Government Minister
- Cratus opens new Bristol office
- Cratus part of project team delivering new School in Elmbridge
- Cratus publishes post-election guide
- Cratus secure planning for Burnt Oak in Brent
- Cratus secures controversial planning permission
- Cratus Secures New funding
- Cratus Sets up Council Coronavirus Hotline
- Cratus shortlisted for IPRA Golden World Award 2020
- Cratus shortlisted for three PRCA awards
- Cratus Solent’s view of the elections
- Cratus special report: local elections 2019
- Cratus supports the fight against knife crime with Steel Warriors
- Cratus to support BNTVA in their campaign for recognition
- Crown Estate ramps up support for small UK tidal and wave developers
- Delivering Climate Finance in 2021 and Beyond
- Delivering for troubled families?
- Democratic deficit in local reporting
- Do the Bucks stop here? The reorganisation of local government in Buckinghamshire
- Does ‘Planning for the Future’ work without Local Government reform?
- Does building ‘beautiful’ mean building ‘better’?
- East West rail needs to stay on track
- Economic recovery and the future of the Southampton city-region: challenges and opportunities
- Economic recovery in Southampton
- Eden House Redevelopment
- End of an era for Southwark
- Engaging with local government
- Ensuring Everyone Can Read the Standing Orders
- Episode 2 – COP26
- Episode 3 – Finance
- Episode 4 – Nature
- Episode One
- Eric Pickles MP visits Bentley Crematorium
- European Local Democracy Week – October 2016
- February By-election Report
- Female representation in local government – just a bit of fun?
- Final preparations before we say goodbye!
- Five Stories from Older People
- Five ways to be ahead of the curve for devolution
- Flexibility in the face of a crisis
- Focus on: Enfield
- Former BCP Council Leader Vikki Slade joins Cratus Communications
- Four successful outcomes for clients
- Fracking Hell, Local Government to be cut out of shale decisions?
- From Microgeneration to Powering the Nation – Cratus Focuses on Energy
- From the chaos, rises Barwell…
- Funding for New and Affordable Housing
- Funding Infrastructure
- Gallery of modern art courtesy of the Parliamentary Digital Services
- Garden Village sites will require good consultation
- General Election 2019
- Grassroots sport: the bedrock of communities
- Green belt cannot constrain Cameron
- Green Homes Grant
- Greenbelt. Release or tinker around the edges?
- Growth in the Thames Estuary – It’s about more than just housing
- Guildford Borough Council Local Plan – A win or a loss? You decide.
- Guildford’s new leadership. Intention or chance?
- Guilty by Association?
- Hampshire & Dorset Local Leaders comment: digital meetings and decision making
- Happy National Volunteers Week!
- Helen Tilton joins Steve Quartermain and Sean Anstee at Cratus Communications
- HMT Spring Statement Snapshot
- Home Sweet Home Counties?
- Homes in the sky
- Housebuilders beware… the OEP is coming
- Housing White Paper Signals More Than Policy Shift for The Conservatives – By Ben Sherreard
- Housing White Paper: Three months on
- Housing, Planning & the Spending Review
- Housing: a national policy for local problems?
- How COVID has changed our communities
- How do you engage with a community?
- How Green is the Capital?
- How housing can help solve the loneliness crisis
- How is London addressing the climate emergency?
- How is the Northern Powerhouse stacking up?
- How will TIG affect local government?
- In Conversation with Sir Howard Bernstein
- In conversation with Steve Quartermain – in association with Town Legal
- In defence of MIPIM
- In discussion with BCP Leader Cllr Vikki Slade
- In discussion with Steve Reed, OBE, Shadow CLG
- Industrial Strategy Vs Industrial Revolution
- Inland Homes, Afrex House, Alperton
- Inward Investment, in a Pandemic. Still we rise….
- Is ‘housing need’ becoming the political force to shift a move to allow developments in the Green Belt?
- Is devolution needed to help deliver development?
- Is the Green Belt being loosened or tightened?
- Is the Merger with Booker, Tesco’s chance to rebuild its relationship with Local Government?
- Is Trump’s Win Really Surprising?
- It’s local government, stupid!
- It’s not all about the ballot box
- It’s the economy, stupid!
- It’s Not a One Way [High] Street
- It’s the (local) economy, stupid
- It’s your time to shine – Guildford’s new Leader to take position in October
- January By-election report
- Jenrick asserts brownfield first but more clarity to follow
- Jenrick puts his foot down
- Kat Marriott joins Rubber Duckiee
- Keir Starmer – a test of leadership
- Khan’t do better?
- Kickstarting Construction and Development
- Kit Malthouse MP, the eighth housing minister in eight years
- Labour for the members, by the members?
- Labour Local Government Conference 2018
- Labour Party Conference 2020: what happened and what does it mean for you?
- Lack of affordable houses creates security concern
- Lack of funding is putting council data at risk
- Lanbury London, 87 Blackwall Lane, Greenwich
- Lessons from the pandemic, with Cllr Elise Wilson and Sean Anstee – Cratus and Place North West Podcast
- Let’s talk about CIL
- Let’s talk about making the Lords local
- LGA Conference 2018
- LGA publishes pre-election plan for local government over the next five years
- Licence Enforcement Fee Ruling
- Local Government – Business as usual?
- Local Government – It’s a man’s world and still overwhelmingly pale, male and stale
- Local Government by-election report
- Local Government By-election Report – January 2018
- Local Government by-election report – November 2018
- Local Government by-election report – September 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – April 2017
- Local Government by-election report – April 2019
- Local Government By-election Report – August 2017
- Local Government by-election report – August 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – December 2017
- Local Government by-election report – December 2018
- Local Government By-Election Report – February 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – February 2018
- Local Government by-election report – February 2019
- Local Government By-Election Report – January 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – July 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – June 2017
- Local Government by-election report – June 2018
- Local Government By-Election Report – March 2017
- Local Government by-election report – March 2019
- Local Government By-election Report – May 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – November 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – October 2017
- Local Government by-election report – October 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – September 2017
- Local Government By-Election Report December 2016
- Local Government By-Election Report November 2016
- Local Government By-Election Report October 2016
- Local government reform – more of the same?
- Local Government reorganisation is coming
- Local government should be at the heart of every economic growth agenda
- Local Growth: realising every place’s potential
- Localised Industrial Strategy: Do you know your LEP from your LA?
- Localism bill becomes law
- Localism gets its teeth
- London Housing Strategy – Draft due August 2017
- London Mayor Tackles Housing Issue
- London’s Lost Decade
- London’s New Deputy Mayor for Housing
- Looking beyond Westminster: the local picture
- Loosening the Green Belt: One notch too far?
- Luke Hall becomes Minister for Local Government, so just who is Luke Hall?
- Major Haringey regeneration approved
- Major incidents: managing the risk
- May’s by-election report
- May’s local government legacy
- Mayor Marvin Rees and Cratus – In discussion and Q&A: ‘Bristol, the City & The Growth Challenge’
- Mayor of what? Importance of Mayoral Elections
- Metro Mayor Momentum
- Mock Committee & Deputation Preparation – Getting you ready for your committee decision
- Modern methods of construction & communities – learning from history and adversity
- Modular: The future of affordable housing?
- Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it can grow on houses
- MP attacks public affairs
- National Apprenticeship Week 2021: Building the Future for Business
- National Design Guide – Laudable in Objective, but Questions Remain
- National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline
- National Planning Policy Framework
- NESCOT’s housing plans approved
- New Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee
- New Leader in Hillingdon
- New Leadership in Kingston
- New leadership on the horizon in Hillingdon
- New Luxury Apartments for Weston super Mare
- New student accommodation in South West London
- New Towns Act 81 Regulation Changes
- Not sure if anyone noticed – but there is a leadership campaign on
- Nuclear Test Veterans tell their stories at Labour Conference
- Nuclear Test Veterans tell their stories at Labour Conference
- October By-election Report
- On the need for large scale deployment of battery storage
- One Night (and a very hazy following morning) in Bournemouth – One Year On
- One Week – Two Unanimous Approvals
- Open letter to Robert Jenrick – ‘Planning for the Future’
- Order, order! Local government changes to public speaking
- Our World is Net-Zero: From Microgeneration to Powering the Nation
- Out of a growing crisis will come radical change in Local Government
- Overview of the new Vacant Building Credit
- Oxford City Local Plan adopted
- Permitted Development Rights and what they could mean for the future of Local Government
- Plan, Plan, Plan to Build, Build, Build
- Planning a solution to loneliness
- Planning and Coronavirus – all change?
- Planning approval secured for landmark development in Brighton
- Planning during lockdown and beyond
- Planning for Green Gains
- Planning for the future – what are the implications for retirement and supported living?
- Planning for the Future consultation
- Planning for the Future: How does it work?
- Planning is Political!
- Planning permission for High Road, Wembley
- Planning permission for Portland Gardens
- Planning Permission for Winchester Student Housing
- Planning power in London?
- Planning success for South Street, Hounslow
- Planning Success in Brent
- Planning success in Newham
- Planning Success in Southwark
- Planning win in Basingstoke
- Political life through a Lauren lens (w/e 04/08/17)
- Political Top Trumps
- Power to the people: will George Ferguson and Independent politics triumph again in Bristol?
- Power up t’ North: Understanding the power of local government
- Pre-Application Briefings to Committee – the low down
- Presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Prime Minister recognises British Nuclear Test Veterans
- Profile of Eddie Hughes MP, new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Housing & Rough Sleeping
- Profile: Rt Hon Chris Pincher MP
- Progress and Election Delay for Proposed Unitaries
- Property ladder or greasy pole on fire?
- Pubs and restaurants coming out of lockdown – how Cratus can support you as you work with local councils
- Pubs, permitted development rights and plans
- Pull up a chair
- PWLB lending reforms impact
- Rebalancing housing safety – the Housing Safety Task Force
- Rebooting democracy? Bristol’s first Citizens’ Assembly
- Rebuilding the Economy through Development
- Recovery for 2021 and beyond
- Reflections on a changing London skyline
- Reflections on the Housing Festival Expo, Engagement & Consultation in Practice
- Renewable energy roadmap
- Rent cap Khan-age?
- Reshuffling some January Blues
- Respecting ‘Place’ is key to Engagement
- Restrictions Hampering Housing Association and Local Authority Relationships
- Rising Star
- Rising star Jenrick shows he is anything but generic at MHCLG
- Robert Jenrick – in conversation with Steve Quartermain
- Rural Exception Sites – are councillors the key to unlocking their potential? By Osman Dervish
- Sajid Javid announces Social Housing Green Paper
- Scotland Lobbying Register launched
- Send for (Lord) Tarzan
- Shaping the future of the high street: in defence of Mike Ashley
- Shaping the New East
- Shared Services saving Councils £263m
- Should Local Authorities step in and rescue our Town Centres
- Should Virtual Local Authority Meetings Be A Thing Of The Past?
- Silent Majority shouted down in local planning
- Sir Merrick Cockell to head municipal bonds agency
- Sir Merrick Cockell to lead Cratus from July
- Sir Merrick interviewed by Infrastructure Investor
- Sir Merrick to chair Crossrail 2 growth commission
- So long, Solent Combined Authority
- So, what is COP26 and why should I care?
- Social Housing in the future – does bigger mean better?
- Some of the news through a Cratus lens – w/e 21/07/17
- Southampton and Portsmouth in race to clean up the air
- Spelthorne Disunited
- Spending Review 2019 – A bumpy start
- Spending Review 2020 breakdown
- Spotlight on the new Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Steve Quartermain CBE in conversation with Euan Mills
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Andy von Bradsky
- Steve Quartermain in Conversation with Gail Mayhew
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Hugh Ellis
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Young Planners
- Steve Quartermain takes up role at Cratus Communications
- Straight Talking
- Success in Merton
- Successful planning application after first refusal for client
- Supreme Court decides on Cherkley Court
- Swan street scheme Success
- Taking Out the Trash During a Reshuffle
- Thank you to local councils!
- The Brexit people voted for?
- The Budget – Will it survive the virus?
- The Cratus (Griffiths) lens redux
- The Devolution Revolution: 20 million residents and 6 Metro Mayors
- The Dorset Local Plan: green belt release
- The Draft London Plan – where are we at? By Martha Grekos, Director and Barrister, Martha Grekos Legal Consultancy Limited
- The economic statement – did the Chancellor deliver?
- The English Question: Devolution or Divorce?
- The fight for air (rights)
- The future of Council CEOs
- The Future of the Development Consent Order
- The future of the high street: reviews, inquiries…action?
- The gathering storm
- The General Election is a sideshow: look local
- The Great British Brick Shortage!
- The housing crises, not just about the young…
- The Importance of a Strong Community Development Strategy
- The Inaugural Chamberlain Lecture
- The Inaugural Chamberlain Lecture
- The intern experience
- The Labour Leadership contenders, Local Government and Housing
- The Life of a Councillor: The Inside Scoop on Local Authorities
- The local government finance settlement
- The Localism Bill
- The most important election in a generation? No way. More like ‘Back to the Future’.
- The new Standard Method – what does it mean for the Home Counties?
- The new unitary Buckinghamshire Council is here
- The new Westminster City Council City Plan
- The only way is local
- The pressing need to turn three-word slogans into reality
- The real battle on 7th May: 9,000 councillors; not 650 MPs
- The revised National Planning Policy Framework arrives!
- The role of central government in the homebuilding industry – “A swinging pendulum of intervention…?”
- The Role of Lobbying
- The Shale Gas Tango
- The starting pistol for the 2018 London elections has only just been fired – and already there have been some surprises
- The summer is over: Corbyn will now reshape British politics
- The theory of marginal gains
- The Trillion Dollar Retrofit Challenge
- Third committee in a row to openly praise our consultation
- Time for a new look for local government in London?
- Time for tighter scrutiny at local level?
- Time to cut housebuilders some slack?
- To purdah, or not to purdah? Non-compliance is out of the question
- Transforming Local Government: What 5G has to Offer
- Transport, Tech and Tax Cuts – Will You Be Part of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s Growth Story?
- UK Offsite Construction – stalled or just getting started?
- Unanimous approval Caerus’ 88-unit scheme on London Road, Havering
- Unanimous decision for controversial Brent proposal
- Unanimous decision on Burton Wold wind farm
- Unitary U-turn – Does it make a difference?
- Unity in a unitary: What needs to change for unitary authorities to work in the Surrey?
- Unity on unitaries? – The drive to set up more unitary authorities
- Up or Out – a new political debate in London?
- Watkin Jones Student Housing Success in Oxford
- Waverley Borough Council’s response to Covid-19
- We need to talk about… the Housing Delivery Test
- We’ll Meet Again – Are councils embracing ‘virtual’ meetings?
- Wells House, Bromley
- Wembley Point, a Towering Success!
- What does delegated authority mean for planning?
- What future for supported housing?
- What future for the car? And how might this impact on future developments?
- What has local government done for us during the pandemic?
- What next for the high street?
- What’s next for BCP’s Unity Alliance?
- What’s the future for Council-owned energy companies?
- Where are the people in placemaking?
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Which way will the political wind blow in Milton Keynes?
- Why Councils must play their part to tackle climate change
- Why engage with politicians and local communities?
- Why local in a global world?
- Will Oxfordshire be the next county to become a unitary authority?
- Will the High Street be the final casualty of Covid-19?
- Win in Hillingdon!
- Woking’s new Leader – What does this mean for Surrey’s ‘tallest’ borough?
- Worse than the expenses scandal?
- Your ‘critical friend’: the evolution of the engagement consultant
- Zonal Planning – a solution to the economic and housing crises?
- (no title)
- ‘A menu of opportunities’
- ‘Housing for the many’
- ‘The Land of the Many’: a Labour policy with interesting implications
- “Building back better” after lockdown?
- “Next stop, all change (of use) here”!
- “Our world is local” – new website launched
- “Right homes – right places – right type!”
- “The loudest voices we hear…” How planning for the future changes local engagement and democracy
- “Tony was a force of nature. By any stretch of the imagination, the truest of working-class heroes.” Chris Roberts, Cratus Senior Political Counsel, pays tribute to the late Tony Pidgley
- “You get on with Brexit, and we will run the country.”
- [On-Demand Webinar] Back from the Brink: How Northamptonshire County Council Balanced the Books
- 100 Days Later – Local Elections 2019
- 100 years after the Addison Act – what has changed?
- 2021 Elections – A challenge for Labour?
- A (political) defence of The White Paper
- A brave new world – virtual meetings are just the start of ways for councils to use technology
- A bridge too far?
- A forum for Bristol’s future
- A lost generation of aspiring homeowners – how do we make sure they are heard?
- A new chapter for Leeds
- A New Housing Delivery Strategy for the WECA Region
- A new role – and thinking beyond the unimaginable
- A New Vision for Portsmouth
- A new week, another election pledge. The battle lines are drawn.
- A pioneering force: Bristol demonstrates innovation in commitment to meeting affordable housing targets
- A rip roaring Zip Line win!
- A Tale of Two Planning Consents Won Last Night
- A Ten Minute Rule Bill in a week full of political ups and downs
- A Tory meltdown – but not just for the reasons you think
- A vision for social housing: for developers and local government
- A weekend in Warwick: an ode to local government
- A Winter of Discontent?
- All change on the Dorset coast
- All Change!
- All Elections Matter
- All eyes on Khan as Labour’s first big test
- An Insight from Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
- An Insight from Scotland Policy Conference
- An insight from: Cllr Danny Beales, Cabinet Member for Investing in Communities and an Inclusive Economy, Camden Council.
- And then there were two….
- Another week, Another Unanimous Approval
- Anstee takes up public affairs role at Cratus Communications
- Approval for Al Noor
- Approval for linked sites in RBKC
- Are Developers the Answer to Council Financial Woes?
- Are housing targets too high?
- Are things going to plan??
- Are we about to see a resurgence in council house building across the capital?
- As You Like It or a Comedy of Errors? A new South Warwickshire Council
- August By-election Report
- Autumn Statement 2014
- Aviation Communities 2020: From the Ground Up
- Beare Green Success
- Bias in planning?
- Big Decisions Loom for Southampton
- Birmingham to pursue greater role for Compulsory Purchase Orders
- Birmingham: The Challenge
- Blacklisting in the construction industry
- BNTVA’s campaign for recognition boosted by Rochdale Councillors
- BNTVA’s Parliamentary Launch
- Boost for new homes in Charnwood as outline permission granted for 133 dwellings
- Boris Johnson’s New Deal
- Boris, Housing and Labour’s Dichotomy
- Brexit and local government
- Brexit construction risk
- Bristol: The City & The Growth Challenge
- British Attitudes Survey
- Budget 2015
- Budget 2015: London’s reaction
- Budget 2017 – A Planning Perspective
- Budget 2020 – What does it mean for planning and local government?
- Budget 2021: The Breakdown
- Building back better can only be achieved if we tackle these big issues
- Building communities – the case for change
- Building reputation through creating communities – a spotlight on events
- Business Breakfast with Sir Albert Bore – Leader of Birmingham City Council
- Business continuity in an age of Coronavirus: How we can help
- By-election report – December
- By-election report – September
- Can Bristol’s One City Plan unite industry in a common goal?
- Can Goldsmith confound Labour’s London strength to secure mayoralty victory?
- Can Kent cope with 5 times more housing than other UK regions?
- Captain Sir Tom Moore – will tomorrow be a good day?
- Casting off from Westminster: Devolution and local powers in the United Kingdom
- Celebrating International Women’s Day: How Cratus Strives for an Inclusive Work Culture
- CEOs on Commercialisation
- Chairman May – Is municipal housebuilding due a resurgence?
- Change is afoot for Local Government
- Change is coming to the Dorset countryside
- Change of Tune at Labour Party Conference this Year
- Change on the cards at BCP Council
- Changing the Face of London’s Planning System and the “Plantech” revolution
- Cherkley Court application approved
- Chiltern & South Bucks Local Plan withdrawn
- Chris Hossack joins Cratus
- Chris Roberts, Deputy Chairman of Cratus Communications to get freedom of the Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Chris Tinker, former Interim CEO at Crest Nicholson, one of three key appointments at Cratus Communications
- Climate Emergency 2020 – Beyond the Declaration
- Coming to Croydon
- Commercial Development succeeds in Harrow
- Committee Members Briefing – Getting Your Application Over the Line
- Community Consultation – Creating a Positive Planning Process
- Community events: a cornerstone for building new communities
- Conference reflections: how local can you go
- Consultant Award
- Consultation praised in Wokingham
- Consultations in an uncertain world
- Could local government be next in line for a cyber-attack?
- Could Mayor’s Free Port offset the effects of Brexit in Tees Valley?
- Could the “Yellow Halo” be the Lib Dems salvation?
- Could We All Do A Little More?
- Council uptake of EV charging infrastructure stalls despite opportunities
- Cratus – developing talent, building for the future
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Buckinghamshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Cambridgeshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Oxfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Bedfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Berkshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Essex
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Hampshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Hertfordshire
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Kent
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – London
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Surrey
- Cratus 2019 General Election Guide – Sussex
- Cratus Account Manager, Charlotte Platten, wins top PR award
- Cratus Achieves 94% success for clients in 2015
- Cratus at Conservative Party
- Cratus celebrates 100% planning success in 2011 with new brochure
- Cratus celebrates a second July success with a unanimous approval in Kingston
- Cratus CEO nominated for national PR Leader award
- Cratus CEO, Nick Kilby, joins Enterprise Ireland UK to discuss the changing landscape of the UK public sector
- Cratus Chairman interviewed in The Independent
- Cratus Communications celebrates young talent
- Cratus Communications expands South West operations
- Cratus Communities celebrates its one year anniversary at Arborfield Green Summer Fete
- Cratus Communities welcome in the festive season at Arborfield Green
- Cratus director new Leader of RB Kingston upon Thames
- Cratus donates dream Scalextric set to Children’s charity
- Cratus Exec Director Sean Anstee in conversation with WSP
- Cratus expands its cross-party leadership to strengthen its strategic advice
- Cratus helps spread the word about “Web of the Week”
- Cratus hosts Democratising Planning through Technology roundtable
- Cratus hosts Secretary of State in energy debate
- Cratus in conversation with London Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe
- Cratus in conversation with Peter Cardwell
- Cratus in Manchester – supporting Place North West MIPIM alternative and welcoming our new hire
- Cratus Launches Digital Service
- Cratus launches pre-app political reports on UK land and property
- Cratus London scores a hat-trick!
- Cratus London win – City Hall approves Kensington Forum redevelopment
- Cratus London’s May Hat-trick
- Cratus makes the case to Government Minister
- Cratus opens new Bristol office
- Cratus part of project team delivering new School in Elmbridge
- Cratus publishes post-election guide
- Cratus secure planning for Burnt Oak in Brent
- Cratus secures controversial planning permission
- Cratus Secures New funding
- Cratus Sets up Council Coronavirus Hotline
- Cratus shortlisted for IPRA Golden World Award 2020
- Cratus shortlisted for three PRCA awards
- Cratus Solent’s view of the elections
- Cratus special report: local elections 2019
- Cratus supports the fight against knife crime with Steel Warriors
- Cratus to support BNTVA in their campaign for recognition
- Crown Estate ramps up support for small UK tidal and wave developers
- Delivering Climate Finance in 2021 and Beyond
- Delivering for troubled families?
- Democratic deficit in local reporting
- Do the Bucks stop here? The reorganisation of local government in Buckinghamshire
- Does ‘Planning for the Future’ work without Local Government reform?
- Does building ‘beautiful’ mean building ‘better’?
- East West rail needs to stay on track
- Economic recovery and the future of the Southampton city-region: challenges and opportunities
- Economic recovery in Southampton
- Eden House Redevelopment
- End of an era for Southwark
- Engaging with local government
- Ensuring Everyone Can Read the Standing Orders
- Episode 2 – COP26
- Episode 3 – Finance
- Episode 4 – Nature
- Episode One
- Eric Pickles MP visits Bentley Crematorium
- European Local Democracy Week – October 2016
- February By-election Report
- Female representation in local government – just a bit of fun?
- Final preparations before we say goodbye!
- Five Stories from Older People
- Five ways to be ahead of the curve for devolution
- Flexibility in the face of a crisis
- Focus on: Enfield
- Former BCP Council Leader Vikki Slade joins Cratus Communications
- Four successful outcomes for clients
- Fracking Hell, Local Government to be cut out of shale decisions?
- From Microgeneration to Powering the Nation – Cratus Focuses on Energy
- From the chaos, rises Barwell…
- Funding for New and Affordable Housing
- Funding Infrastructure
- Gallery of modern art courtesy of the Parliamentary Digital Services
- Garden Village sites will require good consultation
- General Election 2019
- Grassroots sport: the bedrock of communities
- Green belt cannot constrain Cameron
- Green Homes Grant
- Greenbelt. Release or tinker around the edges?
- Growth in the Thames Estuary – It’s about more than just housing
- Guildford Borough Council Local Plan – A win or a loss? You decide.
- Guildford’s new leadership. Intention or chance?
- Guilty by Association?
- Hampshire & Dorset Local Leaders comment: digital meetings and decision making
- Happy National Volunteers Week!
- Helen Tilton joins Steve Quartermain and Sean Anstee at Cratus Communications
- HMT Spring Statement Snapshot
- Home Sweet Home Counties?
- Homes in the sky
- Housebuilders beware… the OEP is coming
- Housing White Paper Signals More Than Policy Shift for The Conservatives – By Ben Sherreard
- Housing White Paper: Three months on
- Housing, Planning & the Spending Review
- Housing: a national policy for local problems?
- How COVID has changed our communities
- How do you engage with a community?
- How Green is the Capital?
- How housing can help solve the loneliness crisis
- How is London addressing the climate emergency?
- How is the Northern Powerhouse stacking up?
- How will TIG affect local government?
- In Conversation with Sir Howard Bernstein
- In conversation with Steve Quartermain – in association with Town Legal
- In defence of MIPIM
- In discussion with BCP Leader Cllr Vikki Slade
- In discussion with Steve Reed, OBE, Shadow CLG
- Industrial Strategy Vs Industrial Revolution
- Inland Homes, Afrex House, Alperton
- Inward Investment, in a Pandemic. Still we rise….
- Is ‘housing need’ becoming the political force to shift a move to allow developments in the Green Belt?
- Is devolution needed to help deliver development?
- Is the Green Belt being loosened or tightened?
- Is the Merger with Booker, Tesco’s chance to rebuild its relationship with Local Government?
- Is Trump’s Win Really Surprising?
- It’s local government, stupid!
- It’s not all about the ballot box
- It’s the economy, stupid!
- It’s Not a One Way [High] Street
- It’s the (local) economy, stupid
- It’s your time to shine – Guildford’s new Leader to take position in October
- January By-election report
- Jenrick asserts brownfield first but more clarity to follow
- Jenrick puts his foot down
- Kat Marriott joins Rubber Duckiee
- Keir Starmer – a test of leadership
- Khan’t do better?
- Kickstarting Construction and Development
- Kit Malthouse MP, the eighth housing minister in eight years
- Labour for the members, by the members?
- Labour Local Government Conference 2018
- Labour Party Conference 2020: what happened and what does it mean for you?
- Lack of affordable houses creates security concern
- Lack of funding is putting council data at risk
- Lanbury London, 87 Blackwall Lane, Greenwich
- Lessons from the pandemic, with Cllr Elise Wilson and Sean Anstee – Cratus and Place North West Podcast
- Let’s talk about CIL
- Let’s talk about making the Lords local
- LGA Conference 2018
- LGA publishes pre-election plan for local government over the next five years
- Licence Enforcement Fee Ruling
- Local Government – Business as usual?
- Local Government – It’s a man’s world and still overwhelmingly pale, male and stale
- Local Government by-election report
- Local Government By-election Report – January 2018
- Local Government by-election report – November 2018
- Local Government by-election report – September 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – April 2017
- Local Government by-election report – April 2019
- Local Government By-election Report – August 2017
- Local Government by-election report – August 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – December 2017
- Local Government by-election report – December 2018
- Local Government By-Election Report – February 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – February 2018
- Local Government by-election report – February 2019
- Local Government By-Election Report – January 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – July 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – June 2017
- Local Government by-election report – June 2018
- Local Government By-Election Report – March 2017
- Local Government by-election report – March 2019
- Local Government By-election Report – May 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – November 2017
- Local Government By-election Report – October 2017
- Local Government by-election report – October 2018
- Local Government By-election Report – September 2017
- Local Government By-Election Report December 2016
- Local Government By-Election Report November 2016
- Local Government By-Election Report October 2016
- Local government reform – more of the same?
- Local Government reorganisation is coming
- Local government should be at the heart of every economic growth agenda
- Local Growth: realising every place’s potential
- Localised Industrial Strategy: Do you know your LEP from your LA?
- Localism bill becomes law
- Localism gets its teeth
- London Housing Strategy – Draft due August 2017
- London Mayor Tackles Housing Issue
- London’s Lost Decade
- London’s New Deputy Mayor for Housing
- Looking beyond Westminster: the local picture
- Loosening the Green Belt: One notch too far?
- Luke Hall becomes Minister for Local Government, so just who is Luke Hall?
- Major Haringey regeneration approved
- Major incidents: managing the risk
- May’s by-election report
- May’s local government legacy
- Mayor Marvin Rees and Cratus – In discussion and Q&A: ‘Bristol, the City & The Growth Challenge’
- Mayor of what? Importance of Mayoral Elections
- Metro Mayor Momentum
- Mock Committee & Deputation Preparation – Getting you ready for your committee decision
- Modern methods of construction & communities – learning from history and adversity
- Modular: The future of affordable housing?
- Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it can grow on houses
- MP attacks public affairs
- National Apprenticeship Week 2021: Building the Future for Business
- National Design Guide – Laudable in Objective, but Questions Remain
- National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline
- National Planning Policy Framework
- NESCOT’s housing plans approved
- New Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee
- New Leader in Hillingdon
- New Leadership in Kingston
- New leadership on the horizon in Hillingdon
- New Luxury Apartments for Weston super Mare
- New student accommodation in South West London
- New Towns Act 81 Regulation Changes
- Not sure if anyone noticed – but there is a leadership campaign on
- Nuclear Test Veterans tell their stories at Labour Conference
- Nuclear Test Veterans tell their stories at Labour Conference
- October By-election Report
- On the need for large scale deployment of battery storage
- One Night (and a very hazy following morning) in Bournemouth – One Year On
- One Week – Two Unanimous Approvals
- Open letter to Robert Jenrick – ‘Planning for the Future’
- Order, order! Local government changes to public speaking
- Our World is Net-Zero: From Microgeneration to Powering the Nation
- Out of a growing crisis will come radical change in Local Government
- Overview of the new Vacant Building Credit
- Oxford City Local Plan adopted
- Permitted Development Rights and what they could mean for the future of Local Government
- Plan, Plan, Plan to Build, Build, Build
- Planning a solution to loneliness
- Planning and Coronavirus – all change?
- Planning approval secured for landmark development in Brighton
- Planning during lockdown and beyond
- Planning for Green Gains
- Planning for the future – what are the implications for retirement and supported living?
- Planning for the Future consultation
- Planning for the Future: How does it work?
- Planning is Political!
- Planning permission for High Road, Wembley
- Planning permission for Portland Gardens
- Planning Permission for Winchester Student Housing
- Planning power in London?
- Planning success for South Street, Hounslow
- Planning Success in Brent
- Planning success in Newham
- Planning Success in Southwark
- Planning win in Basingstoke
- Political life through a Lauren lens (w/e 04/08/17)
- Political Top Trumps
- Power to the people: will George Ferguson and Independent politics triumph again in Bristol?
- Power up t’ North: Understanding the power of local government
- Pre-Application Briefings to Committee – the low down
- Presumption in favour of sustainable development
- Prime Minister recognises British Nuclear Test Veterans
- Profile of Eddie Hughes MP, new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Housing & Rough Sleeping
- Profile: Rt Hon Chris Pincher MP
- Progress and Election Delay for Proposed Unitaries
- Property ladder or greasy pole on fire?
- Pubs and restaurants coming out of lockdown – how Cratus can support you as you work with local councils
- Pubs, permitted development rights and plans
- Pull up a chair
- PWLB lending reforms impact
- Rebalancing housing safety – the Housing Safety Task Force
- Rebooting democracy? Bristol’s first Citizens’ Assembly
- Rebuilding the Economy through Development
- Recovery for 2021 and beyond
- Reflections on a changing London skyline
- Reflections on the Housing Festival Expo, Engagement & Consultation in Practice
- Renewable energy roadmap
- Rent cap Khan-age?
- Reshuffling some January Blues
- Respecting ‘Place’ is key to Engagement
- Restrictions Hampering Housing Association and Local Authority Relationships
- Rising Star
- Rising star Jenrick shows he is anything but generic at MHCLG
- Robert Jenrick – in conversation with Steve Quartermain
- Rural Exception Sites – are councillors the key to unlocking their potential? By Osman Dervish
- Sajid Javid announces Social Housing Green Paper
- Scotland Lobbying Register launched
- Send for (Lord) Tarzan
- Shaping the future of the high street: in defence of Mike Ashley
- Shaping the New East
- Shared Services saving Councils £263m
- Should Local Authorities step in and rescue our Town Centres
- Should Virtual Local Authority Meetings Be A Thing Of The Past?
- Silent Majority shouted down in local planning
- Sir Merrick Cockell to head municipal bonds agency
- Sir Merrick Cockell to lead Cratus from July
- Sir Merrick interviewed by Infrastructure Investor
- Sir Merrick to chair Crossrail 2 growth commission
- So long, Solent Combined Authority
- So, what is COP26 and why should I care?
- Social Housing in the future – does bigger mean better?
- Some of the news through a Cratus lens – w/e 21/07/17
- Southampton and Portsmouth in race to clean up the air
- Spelthorne Disunited
- Spending Review 2019 – A bumpy start
- Spending Review 2020 breakdown
- Spotlight on the new Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Steve Quartermain CBE in conversation with Euan Mills
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Andy von Bradsky
- Steve Quartermain in Conversation with Gail Mayhew
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Hugh Ellis
- Steve Quartermain in conversation with Young Planners
- Steve Quartermain takes up role at Cratus Communications
- Straight Talking
- Success in Merton
- Successful planning application after first refusal for client
- Supreme Court decides on Cherkley Court
- Swan street scheme Success
- Taking Out the Trash During a Reshuffle
- Thank you to local councils!
- The Brexit people voted for?
- The Budget – Will it survive the virus?
- The Cratus (Griffiths) lens redux
- The Devolution Revolution: 20 million residents and 6 Metro Mayors
- The Dorset Local Plan: green belt release
- The Draft London Plan – where are we at? By Martha Grekos, Director and Barrister, Martha Grekos Legal Consultancy Limited
- The economic statement – did the Chancellor deliver?
- The English Question: Devolution or Divorce?
- The fight for air (rights)
- The future of Council CEOs
- The Future of the Development Consent Order
- The future of the high street: reviews, inquiries…action?
- The gathering storm
- The General Election is a sideshow: look local
- The Great British Brick Shortage!
- The housing crises, not just about the young…
- The Importance of a Strong Community Development Strategy
- The Inaugural Chamberlain Lecture
- The Inaugural Chamberlain Lecture
- The intern experience
- The Labour Leadership contenders, Local Government and Housing
- The Life of a Councillor: The Inside Scoop on Local Authorities
- The local government finance settlement
- The Localism Bill
- The most important election in a generation? No way. More like ‘Back to the Future’.
- The new Standard Method – what does it mean for the Home Counties?
- The new unitary Buckinghamshire Council is here
- The new Westminster City Council City Plan
- The only way is local
- The pressing need to turn three-word slogans into reality
- The real battle on 7th May: 9,000 councillors; not 650 MPs
- The revised National Planning Policy Framework arrives!
- The role of central government in the homebuilding industry – “A swinging pendulum of intervention…?”
- The Role of Lobbying
- The Shale Gas Tango
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- The summer is over: Corbyn will now reshape British politics
- The theory of marginal gains
- The Trillion Dollar Retrofit Challenge
- Third committee in a row to openly praise our consultation
- Time for a new look for local government in London?
- Time for tighter scrutiny at local level?
- Time to cut housebuilders some slack?
- To purdah, or not to purdah? Non-compliance is out of the question
- Transforming Local Government: What 5G has to Offer
- Transport, Tech and Tax Cuts – Will You Be Part of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s Growth Story?
- UK Offsite Construction – stalled or just getting started?
- Unanimous approval Caerus’ 88-unit scheme on London Road, Havering
- Unanimous decision for controversial Brent proposal
- Unanimous decision on Burton Wold wind farm
- Unitary U-turn – Does it make a difference?
- Unity in a unitary: What needs to change for unitary authorities to work in the Surrey?
- Unity on unitaries? – The drive to set up more unitary authorities
- Up or Out – a new political debate in London?
- Watkin Jones Student Housing Success in Oxford
- Waverley Borough Council’s response to Covid-19
- We need to talk about… the Housing Delivery Test
- We’ll Meet Again – Are councils embracing ‘virtual’ meetings?
- Wells House, Bromley
- Wembley Point, a Towering Success!
- What does delegated authority mean for planning?
- What future for supported housing?
- What future for the car? And how might this impact on future developments?
- What has local government done for us during the pandemic?
- What next for the high street?
- What’s next for BCP’s Unity Alliance?
- What’s the future for Council-owned energy companies?
- Where are the people in placemaking?
- Where Do We Go From Here?
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- Why Councils must play their part to tackle climate change
- Why engage with politicians and local communities?
- Why local in a global world?
- Will Oxfordshire be the next county to become a unitary authority?
- Will the High Street be the final casualty of Covid-19?
- Win in Hillingdon!
- Woking’s new Leader – What does this mean for Surrey’s ‘tallest’ borough?
- Worse than the expenses scandal?
- Your ‘critical friend’: the evolution of the engagement consultant
- Zonal Planning – a solution to the economic and housing crises?
- Ada Burns
- Aidan McGurran
- Alison Turner
- Andy Holdsworth
- Ashleigh Mclellan
- Bill Alexander
- Brendon Walsh
- Candy Richards
- Charlotte Platten
- Chelsea Reilly
- Chris Hossack
- Chris Roberts
- Chris Tinker
- Clare Whelan, OBE
- Colm Howard-Lloyd
- Dame Mary Ney, DBE
- David Parry
- Duncan Flynn
- Gemma Gallant
- Helen Tilton
- Jake Warwick
- Jenny Cooper
- Julia Potts
- Julian Seymour
- Katy Bennett
- Kim Heilbron
- Kristian Wrenn
- Louis Pender
- Louise Hingley
- Marlies Koutstaal
- Nick Kilby
- Osman Dervish
- Paul Smith
- Rob Chilton
- Robert Delaney
- Sean Fleetwood
- Stephen Dorrell
- Steve Quartermain
- Verity Hunn
- Vikki Slade
- Anglia Square
- Arborfield Green
- BCP Council Communications Review
- Brightwells Yard – Farnham
- Cherkley Court
- Communications Review
- Hatchwood Mill – Consortium Management
- Heathside Walton, Elmbridge
- Land Promoters and Developers Federation
- Lansdowne
- Oxford, Cantay Estates
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- Watkin Jones, LB Brent
- West of Ifield
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