ICE North West Team of the Year 2021

RJP is delighted that the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) team was been awarded the ‘Team award’ in the annual ICE North West Civil Engineering Awards 2021. Each year ICE North West seeks out and shares examples of excellence in civil engineering practice across the region. The Team Award is new for this year, recognising how…

Completing Apprenticeship

We are very proud to announce that our colleague, Becky Crane, has completed her Business Administration apprenticeship with a Distinction no less. Congratulations Becky! Becky worked with The Growth Company to progress her studies whilst supporting our team at RJP, as we have grown between 2019 and 2021. Becky’s professionalism and organisational skills are highly…

Pancake Day fun

During our daily morning call, we each take turns in saying what we are looking forward to. We feel that this is really important for the wellbeing of our colleagues, as it it encourages us to keep positive and look on the brighter side. It also allows us to check in on one-another and have…

Cambridge Biomedical Campus

RJP is delighted to be providing strategic planning advice to Start Advisory and Metro Dynamics to inform a refreshed vision to 2050 for the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC). The CBC, described as “a ground breaking healthcare community at the forefront of science and medicine”, is located on the southern fringe of Cambridge. We look forward…

Working on the famous cobbles

Recently, RJP advised on the nation’s favourite soap opera, Coronation Street. Our associate director, Tess Cook, worked closely with ITV scriptwriters, advising on how to approach a storyline that involves Weatherfield’s planning department. The story, which began to air in December 2020, will see nimbyism played out on the famous cobbles, as the residents of…

Team day (COVID style)!

2020 has been a strange year, to say the least! Like most people, we have not been able to celebrate the year with our usual ‘Christmas party’. Instead we decided to opt for a more COVID-appropriate alternative and so, we spent a (very cold) Friday afternoon planting trees and litter picking in Boz Park, Bury,…

Merseyrail TCIS Approvals (Route 2)

Subsequent to our previous post (see link below), RJP has successfully gained planning approval for Route 2 of the new TCIS across the Merseyrail network.  Similarly to Route 1, the applications were submitted on behalf of Alan Dick Communications Ltd. The process involved the submission of three separate planning applications to Wirral Council, split along…