We’re excited to welcome Laura Partridge and Jordan Bolderson to the Connect team! Laura and Jordan join us as Graduate Transport Planners and they’re already getting stuck into some brilliant projects. Welcome aboard, it’s great to have you with us!
Let’s give a warm welcome to the newest star of our Highway Design Team – Chris Pereira! Chris came on board with Connect in October 2024 as a Graduate Engineer, proudly bringing a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. With previous experience in both Transport Planning and Civil Engineering design, Read more…
As promised, the consultation draft of the proposed new NPPF was released yesterday. We have until 23:45 on 24th September to respond. There is also some explanatory text published alongside the tracked-changes consultation draft. As a Transport Planning consultancy, we have be drawn to our familiar ‘Chapter 9 Promoting sustainable Read more…
“We will reform the planning rules to build the homes and infrastructure the country desperately needs.” “We will improve public transport, transforming our buses and our railways to connect our country. We will bring rail services under public ownership and put passengers at the heart of our transport systems.” – Read more…
It’s February which means one thing in the Connect calendar – our weekend away! We were so impressed with last year’s venue that we went back for more. Carmarthenshire gave us its best fog and lowest visibility, but inside the barn was warm, dry and buzzing with Team Connect plus Read more…
We are very pleased to have helped our client achieve planning permission for this residential development on the site of a derelict former pub in Stoke on Trent. The proposals included the demolition of the pub and its car park, and the construction of seven new homes with parking, as Read more…
We are delighted to announce that Festus Robert has joined Connect as a Graduate Transport Planner in our Transport Planning Team. He has a BSc in Civil Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and a MSc in Transport Engineering and Planning from the University Read more…
We are very pleased to announce that both Ellie Crick and Tim Britton of our Transport Planning team have recently been promoted. Ellie joined Connect in November 2022 as a bright and promising Graduate Transport Planner, and has quickly settled into the team, wowing us all with her enthusiasm and Read more…
£450,000.00: SAVED. (and permission granted for Office Headquarters and Care Home in Ingatestone) As much as all highway engineers and transport planners love modelling, designing and building new junctions, this one was simply unnecessary… …and, in successfully removing the need for the signal junction, we saved the development a hefty Read more…
Happy International Women in Engineering Day 2023! In the build-up to INWED2023, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) asked nine of their female engineer Members a series of questions about the sector, and what needs to be improved to encourage more women into engineering roles. Our own Principal Read more…