RJP on Instagram

RJP has a new Instagram feed.  Working with the creative support of Start Advisory, our Instagram feed presents thematic images relating to infrastructure, housing, communities, and society.  You can check our page out by following the link below. RJP Instagram – @ruth_jackson_planning

City of Trees Planting Day

Our practice director, Ruth Jackson, was out planting trees in North Manchester this week.  Along with colleagues from Network Rail and Mott MacDonald, the team planted some 300 trees and shifted 1.5 tonnes of wood chippings.  A big thank you to Manchester City of Trees for facilitating the day and doing such a fantastic job.

Ribblesdale

RJP has been chosen by Countryside Properties to support them in the preparation and submission of an application for development of a housing site in Hyndburn.  RJP is delighted to be working alongside Countryside once again, following the successful result earlier this year on their site at Prescot, St Helens.

The Auckland Project

Client : The Auckland Project Status: Changes secured to Local Plan RJP is delighted to announce a new instruction, to support The Auckland Project in engaging with the preparation of a response to the draft of the County Durham Plan (CDP). Based in Bishop Auckland, The Auckland Project’s origins stem from an initial investment in a…

Fairhaven

RJP provided planning support to MSA Architects in progressing an application to demolish the existing, unremarkable house and the replacement with a terrace of three new town houses on a site in Bowdon village, between Hale and Altrincham in Greater Manchester.   RJP were pleased to assist in securing the redevelopment of the site with…

Store Street Car Park

NCP- Wilmott Street

RJP is pleased to announce that we have secured planning permission on behalf of NCP Limited for a new temporary car park at Wilmott Street, Manchester.  RJP co-ordinated the application with inputs from fellow co-consultants Drinkwater Architects, Curtins, and Cundalls.  The temporary car park will make good use of a currently vacant, previously developed site…

Thomas Street, Northern Quarter

Client: Agecroft Investment Company Limited Status: Application approved, 25/07/2019 RJP was instructed by Agecroft Investment Company Ltd to provide planning advice on the redevelopment of a site on Thomas Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Cheshire based Agecroft has owned properties in the Northern Quarter for approaching 50 years and has been instrumental in the transformation of…

Northern Quarter Consultation

Proposals for the Thomas Street site were revealed to the public for their views on the 7thFebruary 2019 (4:00pm to 7:30pm) at an event at the former Richard Goodall Gallery on Thomas Street.  Under the instruction of Agecroft Investment Company, GA Studios, a local architectural firm, produced plans which looked to restore the Victorian-era frontage and roofscape.  The proposal…

St Albans Station

RJP is delighted to announce that St Albans City Council has given prior approval for the Govia Thameslink Rail and Network Rail application for the redevelopment of St Albans City Station.  The project, designed by architects TTPP, will improve capacity and greatly modernise facilities at this busy commuter destination.  RJP provided specialist rail planning advice…