I managed to get on one of the last flights back to London before the Volcano kicked off, which avoided a week or more in Washington DC (I don’t think Ann Skippers was as lucky).
We recently gave a presentation at a breakfast meeting for business leaders in Lowestoft, on the Area Action Plan proposals that we are working on up there. We were considerably upstaged by two GCSE students, Niall and Katie from the Denes High School who presented their concept for a sustainable town that they had called Solaris which had won a national “Developing Sustainable Communities Competition”. This included a whole range of brilliant ideas for a zero carbon town including a water powered lift, ideas for mixed use eco-neighbourhoods and a 3D fly through of an eco-home. We thought that our own planners and designers could learn a thing or two from Niall and Katie, so we invited them down to London for a tour of the office, a trip to the Olympic View Tube and the chance to share their ideas (and hopefully convince them to go into careers in the built environment).
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