Busy week for planning permissions
Lucas Hickman Smith celebrate six new planning approvals in the past week, including two small housing schemes, a one-off house, two barn conversions and a bespoke house extension.
Awards Success for Holkham Studios
Our recently completed project for the Holkham Estate has won one of eight East of England RICS awards. The project was a fast-track conversion of a range of listed listed barns to create 9,000 sq ft of contemporary office space. The development, now know as Holkham Studios, won ‘Best Commercial Project’.
People-Powered Planning
Lucas Hickman Smith is supporting the National Community Land Trust Networks’ #MoreCLTs campaign in the run-in to May’s general election.
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are community-ownedenterprises which enable local communities to acquire or build new homes or business-space, and then manage them in perpetuity for the benefit of the community. Because they are non-profit-making they can receive grants and secure planning permissions that would not be available to a private developer.
A New Lease of Life for Longlands
Phase 1 of our project for the Holkham Estate at Longlands is complete and occupied by its new tenant. The fast-track conversion of the Grade II* listed buildings went from brief to handover in 9 months, in a highly effective collaboration between
LHS TV
If you missed our Matt's 5-minute 'Ignite' presentation on 'Homes of the Future' at Hot Source's year-end spectacular before Christmas, or his reprise of it at this week's NAA Wednesday Forum, it's now been posted on Ignite Norwich's YouTube channel…