Case Studies
Client: Public-private venture
Location: West Wales
Description: A public-private venture involving five organisations was proposing to develop a technology park and full-scale commercial airport at a former WWII military airfield in Aberporth, the heart of rural Wales. The development would bring jobs and investment to … [more]
Client: Fibrogen
Location: Near Scunthorpe, Yorkshire
Description: A power station originally designed to generate electricity from chicken litter had been granted consent to burn meat and bone meal (MBM) made from non-infected cattle culled during the BSE crisis.
However, once the Government's culling scheme had e … [more]
Description: Regeneration was long overdue in some areas of Liverpool city centre, but opinion was divided on how best to integrate the numerous historic buildings with new commercial developments. A draft 'tall buildings' policy indicated to developers the preferred s … [more]
Client: The Rank Group
Location: Wales and Scotland
Description: A massive facelift programme was launched at UK Butlins sites. Two of them would be converted into Haven holiday parks, with static caravans instead of chalets. There was a danger the investments could be resisted by chalet owners, holidaymakers and the lo … [more]
Client: Carlton Power
Location: Langage, 10km east of Plymouth, Devon
Description: A 400m gas-fired power station proposal, to be located near Plymouth in Devon. Although the site was designated for industrial use and abutted a business estate, it was green fields with the boundary of Dartmoor National Park only a few kilometres away. A … [more]
Client: Alstom Transport
Location: East Midlands
Description: After years of under-investment in UK railways, there was no longer a suitable test track where new trains could be put through their paces. Introduction of Virgin's high-speed tilting Pendolino trains for the upgraded West Coast Main Line would mean carry … [more]
Client: Park Lane Estates
Location: South Manchester
Description: Refurbishment of Altrincham's 1960s shopping precinct was long overdue. The layout and architecture were dated, while parking and pedestrian access were inadequate. Shoppers were being lured away by the nearby Trafford Centre and, as a consequence, retail … [more]
Client: Bedfordshire County Council
Location: Within Bedfordshire
Description: All waste disposal authorities are facing the dilemma of how to deal with the waste that remains once maximum amounts have been extracted for recycling and/or composting. EU and Government legislation requires a shift away from landfill towards energy reco … [more]
Client: Force 9 Energy
Location: Moray, north Scotland
Description: A wind farm project proposed for north of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, amid a growing climate of hostility towards the proliferation of turbines. The local county council had approved a clutch of wind farms but was beginning to face stiff oppositio … [more]
Client: Infinergy
Location: Dingwall, Scottish Highlands
Description: A wind farm project proposed near Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands. The wind farm required approval from the Scottish Government with Highland Council as a statutory consultee. The planning officer had initially recommended that Highland Council should r … [more]
Client: Bridestones Developments
Location: Carrington, South Manchester
Description: Bridestones Developments (a wholly owned subsidiary of Carlton Power) submitted an application for a Section 36 Consent for an 860MW gas-fired power plant at Carrington, in South Manchester. A tight planning consent timeframe existed to ensure a suitable … [more]
Client: Drax Power
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
Description: Pendragon PR were contracted in early 2009 to provide stakeholder communications and public relations support for three 290MW biomass-fired renewable energy plants being proposed by Drax Power. Among the largest biomass projects ever proposed in the UK, … [more]
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Refurbishment of Altrincham's 1960s shopping precinct was long overdue. The layout and architecture were dated, while parking and pedestrian access were inadequate.
