CLPM New Year, New Name, New Website Exciting news from Charlie Laing! We’re changing our name! In January 2017 we will launch our NEW website at the NEW website address of www.cl-pm.com. The NEW website will replace our original founding company websites of www.charlielaing.com and www.clearplanpm.co.uk. This will officially launch our NEW company name…
Construction Site Safety in the Christmas Shutdown Building sites can be dangerous places and are especially vulnerable over the Christmas shutdown. Good project managers will make sure your builders manage the risks if your site is unoccupied this December, here are a few or our safety tips. 1) Check for any potential risks on your…
Stay sane while enjoying your build. Nicky Bryden, CLPM Director, has seen all manner of building excitements during the past seven years. Being at the helm of ClearPlan project management with her husband, James and now as part of CLPM. In this blog, Nicky offers some sage advice for those who are about to embark…
CLPM are finalists for FSB Hertfordshire Green Award Great news! We’ve made it through the selection process to be a finalist for the 2016 Federation of Small Businesses Hertfordshire Business Awards, in the Green Award category. The FSB Hertfordshire Business Awards are a very much sought-after accolade of achievement in the local area, and are see…
CLPM Podcast – Creating your dream home! Undertaking a building project is exciting but for most of us, not something we regularly do. In this Podcast Business Development Director Nicky Bryden talks about the time scales that you should allow in transforming your initial ideas into your dream home. Podcast A podcast…
Tips to Cut your Heating Bills Heavy snow warnings and fears of 2015 being the worst winter for decades are filling the newspapers this week. Our climate scientists and forecasters seem to think we’re in for a hard winter this year. The clocks go back this weekend and the shorter days and dropping temperatures certainly do…
Tythe Barn Eco-Restoration Project is a Winner! Congratulations to our clients, Jamie and Anna Rankin of Micklefield Hall. Their grade 2 listed Great Barn at Micklefield Hall was the overall winner for Restoration at the Chilterns Buildings Design Awards this summer. It took Anna and Jamie, the owners of Micklefield, near Rickmansworth and their…
UK housing shortage battle : developers vs planners Local Authorities Local Authorities, typically, have roles to play in terms of Forward Planning and also Development Control. All well, and good. More recently, however, Central Government has all but got rid of the centralised ideas plan. Local Authorities are supposed to be coming up with recommendations…
5 Reasons to Renovate, Remodel or Extend Your Home Is renovating, refurbishing or extending my home in 2015 a sound financial decision? It’s a dilemma many have pondered since the crash in 2008. Most of us renovate, remodel or extend our homes to improve our quality of life. In the past, when house price…
CLPM help improve running costs for Oxford home We’ve just been appointed to carry out a full sustainability review to improve running costs on a beautiful Edwardian home near Oxford. Our clients are planning to fully refurbish and update their home. The works will include drawing up plans to remodel and reconfigure the existing…