31 December 2024
In 2024, PNPR had its best year yet, with over 2,500 pieces of coverage, generated in publications as wide-ranging as the Times, Telegraph, FT and Daily Mail, planning, property, architecture, construction, energy, environmental, legal, business, education and sports publications. Not to mention radio, podcasts and TV. It’s been great to take on board new clients, […]
09 August 2024
Over the past year, PNPR has grown considerably. In addition to long term clients Carter Jonas and Boyer, we have recently taken on the huge and ever-expanding Leaders Romans Group (sales, lettings, mortgages, block management, BTR, surveying and more…); property and legal industry Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) and planning / landscape / design […]
27 October 2022
PNPR is now over 10 years old and the company now has a wide breadth of retained clients with the property and planning sector, including Carter Jonas, Leaders Romans Group, Blenheim Estate and planning consultancy, Boyer. Penny Norton also continues to write and speak on the subject of public consultation and we have ongoing contracts […]
22 October 2022
Penny Norton, working on behalf of Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has edited BTR suburban communities: the next stage in the evolution of Build to Rent. This White Paper focuses on the future evolution of this fastest-growing property class and coins a new description for the next phase of its development – BTR suburban communities. In […]
30 July 2022
Due to an increase in client work within the property sector, PNPR is looking for freelance PR specialists especially those with experience in promoting housebuilders and estate agents. If you’re interested, please get in touch.
11 June 2021
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee issued a first report on The Future of the Planning System in England. This follows the 2020 Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future which proposed some radical changes to the planning system. Read my digest of the very interesting points made in the […]
10 June 2021
People in Planning: Considering Consultation Content is the first in a series of e-books on consultation in planning published by Bang the Table. Find out more about the book’s content and download a copy here.
22 February 2021
Find out more about the book launch here.
18 January 2021
In the summer of 2020, Penny Norton, as a member of the Consultation Institute (tCI)’s Environment Working Group, designed a research project for a joint initiative between tCI and APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence).
09 November 2020
Communicating Construction: insight, experience and best practice is a collection of essays on PR in construction, each covering a specific aspect of the construction sector and sits alongside Promoting Property: insight, experience and best practice as a guide to the sector, written by those who know it best. It fills a much-needed knowledge gap and has been a real pleasure to edit.
07 July 2020
With Promoting Property, published and the height of the first national lockdown, it was great that Women in Property offered to host a webinar based around the book’s content and some of the book’s chapter authors presented on their areas of expertise.
16 June 2020
Early in 2020, Penny Norton jointly set up The Consultation Institute’s Environment Working Group which exists to support organisations in engaging on environmental issues.
30 April 2020
Promoting Property: insight, experience and best practice is now published by Routledge and is widely available. The book is a collection of essays on PR, each covering a specific aspect of the property sector and is the companion to Communicating Construction: insight, experience and best practice.
31 August 2019
Penny Norton contributes a chapter to Regulation of Extractive Industries, to be published by Routledge in 2020.
22 March 2019
Penny Norton speaks at the TCPA’s seminar on Getting Public Participation Right following her contribution to the TCPA Practical Guides – Guide 11: People, planning and power which was launched at the event.
01 February 2019
Penny Norton has signed a contract with Routledge to produce a guide to property PR.
08 May 2018
Penny Norton becomes an Associate of The Consultation Institute (tCI), joining and network of consultants who have considerable expertise in consultation and public engagement.
06 February 2018
On Friday Penny Norton will be in Belfast presenting to law firm Carson McDowell and the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action on the importance (and context, structure, issues and techniques) of consultation in planning.
01 July 2017
The CIPR is hosting an event to mark the publication of Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning: a twenty-first century guide on Tuesday 11 July.
12 June 2017
Penny Norton’s book Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning: a twenty-first century guide is now available to reserve.
16 January 2017
Penny Norton is recognised as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for ‘outstanding work in public relations, service to the Institute and personal achievements within the profession’, specifically ‘thought leadership on excellence in property communications’.
06 May 2016
Penny Norton’s book Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning: a twenty-first century guide is complete and due for publication by Routledge in June 2017.
10 March 2016
Following the success of the online consultation service ConsultOnline, CommunitiesOnline is launched, providing and efficient and effective community relations service during consultation.
06 January 2015
Scotch Corner Designer Village, the first project run by PNPR’s online consultation service ConsultOnline now has resolution to grant planning consent.
05 September 2014
ConsultOnline, a new online consultation service which is owned and managed by PNPR, has been shortlisted for the Cambridge Innovation Awards.
01 March 2014
ConsultOnline, the 21st century answer to public consultation, is launched.
