Posts
Finding ways to balance different perspectives and positions is an essential part of collaborative engagement and a core aspect of our approach. Posts are by individual team members and reflect a diversity of interests and views rather than a collective position.
It’s ‘when’ as much as ‘what’
It’s fantastic that we hear so much about the effort and investment channelled into energy efficiency, renewables and large-scale generation capacity, but what we don’t hear so much about is the timing of our energy demand. And it begs the question – when we look at...
WTF is ESG?
For a decade or more, investment decisions in financial markets have been informed by environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria. The clever people who help make such decisions have long understood that ESG credentials correlate with long term...
Rediscovering Local High Streets: A Review of Societal and Lifestyle Trends
Changing Retail Habits In May 2007 internet sales accounted for 3.1% of all retail sales, in May 2020 they accounted for 32.8 % . Whilst this has dropped back slightly in the months after...
Starting with the ‘big ideas’
Hydrock’s recent report A vision for the 2020s provided early inspiration for the Creating Communities Together Project. The report highlights many of the issues we are facing and responds with ‘big ideas’ for the next decade and the need for shifting mindsets....
A response to ‘Planning for the Future’
As a collective of leading professional advisers with extensive experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders – public and private, corporate and community, landowners and financiers – we acknowledge that the current systems in the UK are frequently...