Autumn 2012 South West Building & Construction 39 HONITON
Timber for the building trade
BLAMPHAYNE Sawmills Ltd is a well-established company serving the South West and the South coast. The business provides timber for the building trade as well as a wide range of products. The timber includes sheet materials, flooring and cladding as well as all types of fencing. Entrance, field and garden gates are all produced as is garden furniture and play equipment.
Blamphayne Sawmills uses quality timber and bespoke services are offered.
Contact Blamphayne
Sawmills Ltd, Iron Bridge, Gittisham, Honiton, Devon, EX14 3AN. Tel 01404 851357. Email via info@
blamphaynesawmills.co.uk. Website: www.blamphayne
sawmills.co.uk. feature
*Look out for a special on Blamphayne
Sawmills Ltd in the next issue of South West Building & Construction magazine.
■ GERALDINE Coates Accounting is a friendly small business that strives to help other small businesses. Offering accounting and payroll services, Geraldine deals with annual accounts, VAT returns, bookkeeping and self-assessment tax returns. For more details, tel 01404 44750 or email gercoates @
aol.com.
INFORMATION Training courses
CTA Centre Ltd undertakes all aspects of industrial and construction training throughout the country, either on your site or at one of its fully accredited test sites. The company completes training/testing/assessing for different certification schemes including CPCS (Construction Plant Certification Scheme), NPORS (National Plant Operators Registration Scheme), LANTRA-NTO and City & Guilds. The business has a comprehensive test site at its head office in North Devon that replicates conditions that would be found on a construction site, and with 45 acres, there is no shortage of room.
The centre covers most of the categories for which a CPCS card is available and is also ISO:9002 accredited, showing its commitment to quality. CTA Centre Ltd prides itself on being honest and will not give you ‘sales talk’. The CTA team will point out your responsibilities and the complete costs involved in the training you require - there will be no hidden fees.
If you do need any advice,
CTA Centre Ltd is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Please telephone 01271 858575 or email
training@ctacentre.co.uk for more information.
■ MEXBORO Concrete Ltd would like to thank all the businesses which supported the company’s special feature in the June-July edition of South West Building & Construction magazine.
The feature told how
Mexboro Concrete has for over 40 years specialised in the manufacture of high quality structural precast concrete and architectural cast stone. The feature went on to
explain that Mexboro prides itself in replicating natural stone when manufacturing cast stone creating a finish virtually indistinguishable from quarried stone but at a much lower cost. For more information, contact Mexboro Concrete Ltd, Alders Way,
Yalberton
Industrial Estate, Paignton, Devon, TQ4 7QQ. Tel 01803 558025, fax 01803 524717. Visit the website at:
www.mexboroconcrete.co.uk.
CIC SOUTH WEST
Neighbourhood planning ideas
NEIGHBOURHOOD Planning rights should be used by local communities to lead on developments on their own terms, a new report from think-tank ResPublica and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) urges.
‘Re-thinking Neighbourhood Planning: From consultation to collaboration’ calls for greater formal recognition of community priorities and requirements in the planning process, which would include social aspirations, environmental values and financial stakes.
Launched by Minister for Local Government Greg Clark, the ResPublica and RIBA report says that neighbourhood planning should be led by the values of local people. Residents should be able to decide their local priorities in a collaborative process enabled by experts such as architects, together with local businesses, developers and the local authority, and formalised in a ‘Neighbourhood Agreement’.
Value The report urges the
Government to consider the potential for a ‘Community Right to Invest in Real Estate’ and recommends a consultation should be carried out into how local communities can capitalise on future gains of the property development sector.
The report is critical of past neighbourhood consultation processes, which it describes as ‘tokenistic’
and ‘tickbox
exercises’. To avoid frustration and distrust in planning objectives from local residents, the report advocates a process which involves support and advice for communities from impartial experts.
The report also says that successful place-making and participation in the planning process can be ‘captured’ in terms of public savings on costs associated with anti-social behaviour and community fragmentation.
The ResPublica and RIBA report, recommends that: *The benefits of good design and meaningful community
engagement should be recognised as a measurable social outcome *Government should appoint an independent panel of experts to define the metrics and structures required to capture the social value created though the neighbourhood planning process *An evidence base from local authorities should be used by the Government in order to extend the ‘community budgets’ programme and to create a new ‘Total Neighbourhood’ approach *The Government should
make a ‘Neighbourhood Partnership Agreement’ between residents, local business, local authorities, developers, and design professionals a statutory requirement for every Neighbourhood Plan. Harry Rich, RIBA chief
executive, said: ‘The costs of bad planning and design are vast. Meaningful community-led planning helps to achieve better design solutions with greater social and economic value.’ Download the report at
www.architecture.com.
A member of the Construction Industry Council, RIBA champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and its members.
The Construction Industry Council South West is the representative forum for the professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the construction industry. CIC South West provides a single voice for professionals in all sectors of the built environment through its collective membership.
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