FGP InTouch

GIS (Geographic Information System) is so widely used in modern days it is easy to get blasé about its role at a professional level. FGP have a dedicated GIS Department, so where better to ask where the technology is taking us and what are the modern day possibilities?

As the Prime Minister announces plans for the government’s green industrial revolution, it is timely to look at FGP’s Carbon Zero Ambitions as one small cog in the corporate effort.

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) projects are set to achieve greater prominence during 2021. At the forefront of these are two separate east coast carbon capture projects based in the heavyweight Humberside and Teesside industrial zones. 

The permitted development extended rights element of the Prime Minister’s build campaign has quickly come under fire by Judicial Review. 

In the background to the hype surrounding the residential market through the middle of 2020, farmland supply to the market has been at record low – perhaps 80% down on previous years. 

A tentative leap forward in electronic application procedures has been necessitated as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. Temporary regulations and guidance for promoters of nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIP) have been introduced.

The disposal cost for waste soils often amounts to a significant cost for developers and it is a cost often not fully budgeted for during the early stages of project planning.

As the COVID19 lockdown eases the thoughts return to the BREXIT trade deals, not least in the agricultural industry where concern over imported food standards is mounting.

As expected, the Foreign Secretary has confirmed that Lockdown restrictions in the UK will continue for "at least" another three weeks.

Following the Prime Minister’s statement on 23rd March 2020 FGP staff will work remotely from their homes.

We appreciate the uncertainty of the growing pandemic, but want to reassure clients and all interested parties that they can continue working with FGP with m

The Agriculture Bill is rolling again and representatives of the farming industry have reacted reasonably positively to the bill as it went through second reading stage last week.

It is ironic that many positive messages in the Agriculture Bill are contravened by the HS2 go ahead. Compulsory purchase is a perceived disaster for farms affected.

The Government’s “landmark” Environment Bill introduced to Parliament in October stuttered to a halt faced off by the General Election. Reintroduced in February it has now found new energy accelerating through a first reading and onward through a second reading.

Demonstrating that they all still fully fit, all staff are taking part in Walk all over Cancer in March.