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Three members of Bidwells staff have been celebrating this week having passed their specialist assessments to become Chartered Surveyors.

Government's "radical" approach to planning reform announced this morning (Aug 6) has been welcomed by Head of Planning Mike Derbyshire. But he warns of dangers ahead calling for a more employment-focussed approach, a recalibration of local democracy, increased funding for LPAs and specific support for growing science and tech businesses.

Bidwells Associate planner Matt Wilson gives the Planning for the Future White Paper launched by government this morning (Aug 6) a first once over.

Our head of science and technology David Williams has joined a New London Architecture (NLA) expert panel on science, tech and innovation.

Peterhouse College and Abstract have exchanged contracts to acquire a 9.17 acres (3.71Ha) site adjacent to the Cambridge global base of ARM plc from the Wright’s Clock Land Charity.

A 123-acre commercial development site near Montrose, Angus. has been bought by Crown Estate Scotland from ISLA Developments at a cost of £3.7m, with Bidwells’ advice.

AstraZeneca's Andy Williams discusses AZ's Covid-19 vaccine partnership with the University of Oxford. The potentially crisis-ending collaboration may change the world, but in this podcast, we ask how local leaders and place makers across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc can make life scientists local heroes too?

More than 250 property professionals heard our head of science and technology David Williams tell an NLA webinar that Bidwells predicts a 15-20m sq ft increase in demand for offices and labs across the OX-Cam Arc over the next two decades.

How many of recent societal changes will remain when economics overtakes health in the nation’s list of priorities? Socio-economics planner Juliet Clark; landscape architect and urban designer Danielle Percy and heritage consultant Kate Hannelly-Brown, give Ben Lee the Bidwells lockdown lowdown.