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Project Update and Social Value
South Staffordshire Council Projects Update Our team had been busy progressing our work with South Staffs District Council, supporting in progressing their emerging strategic sites. We recently completed a comprehensive design assessment and workshop for Phase 2 North of [...]
New Comissions of 2023
Letchworth Hyas are supporting North Herts District Council in bringing forward a masterplan for the 900 home strategic site allocation immediately to the North of Letchworth. The masterplan is being prepared by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and [...]
Plan-making reforms consultation – laudable ambitions but too short sighted?
This week marks the closing date on the consultation on the Government proposals for reforms to plan making in England (at midnight on 18th October). If implemented as described, the proposed reforms would be a significant change to not only [...]
Think piece: Is Design Coding Effective at the Strategic Level?
Our article last year on the hot topic of design codes looked at interpreting national coding at the local level (link). In the last 18 months Hyas have been involved in the government’s national Design Code Pathfinder Programme. During that [...]
Local Heroes – Getting the most out of a new Planning Supersquad
Everyone has taken great interest in Gove’s speech on Monday 24th July, with plenty debate and discussion amongst practitioners about what it means and what impact it may have. One element that is particularly of interest was the proposal for [...]
New Commissions: Rotherham Strategic Site SPD & PAS best practice advisory
In the past few months, we have been awarded a number of new commissions relating to strategic sites and pre-applications support. Some of the new commissions include: ROTHERHAM BASSINGTHROPE FARM SPD We are delighted to confirm that we been commissioned [...]
Welcome Olivia!
We're pleased to announce that Olivia Griffin has joined Hyas Associates a Graduate Planner. Hyas recently set up an office base in the STEAMhouse Business Incubator support hub - which is based at Birmingham City University (BCU). As part of [...]
Welcome Clare, Matt & Hatem!
We’re pleased to announce the arrival of Matt Bowers, Clare Manders and Hatem Nabih to the growing team at Hyas. Matt Bowers joins us as an Associate Director from Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, where he was Director for Environment [...]
New commissions: Staffordshire SDFs, NMDC Pathfinder & Meecebrook
Hyas Associates have been awarded a number of new commissions recently related to strategic sites and achieving design quality. Some of our recent new commissions include: South Staffordshire Strategic Development Frameworks We are very pleased to share that we are [...]
Design Code Pathfinders: how do we best interpret and deliver local coding?
Jim Fox – A Personal View on the latest Design Code Pathfinders project, drawing from experiences with the NMDC Phase 1 pilots The Government has announced 25 National Model Design Code (NMDC) Pathfinder pilots – focusing on: Aspirational, simple and [...]