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Appointment of a Planning Consultant and application for a Certificate of Lawfulness is often advisable..

with multiple aims of investment cost efficiency, running cost efficiency, while reducing the huge social cost of re-offending which comes with an £18Billion a year price tag to the UK economy.There was even a proposal to develop the building technology so that inmates could be involved in the programme, building their skills, and making them more employable once released.. And there are technologies being developed now that can produce net carbon negative concrete, this would have offered the Ministry of Justice programme the possibility of a carbon negative prison as well as delivering all the other benefits.. What we also forget is a fact that should motivate us and give us hope.

Renewable energy is lower in cost than fossil fuels.That’s lower in cost!To put that in context, if the quantity of electricity used by the UK about 320 Bn KWh per year was moved from gas to offshore wind the saving would be £126Billion per year.

If you wanted a 5-year pay back with such a saving, you could afford to invest over £600Billion.There is a direct synergy between financial return and moving to renewable energy..

The payback, the value generated for doing the right thing on the environment is immense, in monetary terms and in our living environment and in protection of people and biodiversity; and in feeling that we are part of a generation that acted and made the world a better place for everybody.

These are things in our power and reach.No element can be viewed or managed in isolation..

But over a number of decades, the process of delivering built assets has become fragmented.Responsibility, risk and reward are increasingly split among an array of organisations whose interests are not aligned, and whose view of a project is unhelpfully narrow.. As a result, value is diluted at every stage and clients end up with built assets that are simply not as good as they should be..

There is a better way, and that is to Design to Value (DtV).. Design to Value.Adopting a Design to Value approach means understanding that the most efficient route to the most efficient solution is first to make sure you analyse and understand the commercial opportunity (or requirement) from every angle.