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Plymouth City Council has scooped three top awards at the 2016 Royal Town PIanning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence.

The ceremony was held in London on Thursday 5 May 2016 and the Council won Local Authority Planning Team of the Year, the Excellence in Planning to Deliver Housing Award for the Council’s Plan For Homes, and the Silver Jubilee Cup, the RTPI’s most...

The ambitious Plan for Homes by Plymouth City Council which aims to deliver 5,000 new homes over five years, is the 2016 winner of the Royal Town Planning Institute’ (RTPI) Silver Jubilee Cup, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious planning award.

Some of the 5,000 homes will be built on council owned land identified and released for development and the scheme will target institutional...

Elena Brake, a 23-year-old BA (Hons) Fine Art student from Plymouth College of Art, recently completed Tying Knots, a very successful performance involving members of the public in Plymouth city centre.

Designed to draw attention to the everyday action of tying a knot and the ways simple things like this can be overlooked, Elena set up a box and two stools beside the sundial in the...

An anaesthesia research network, based across six hospital trusts in the south west of England, has been shortlisted in the Anaesthesia Team of the Year category at this year’s British Medical Journal (BMJ) Awards.

Set up four years ago, the South West Anaesthesia Research Matrix (SWARM) is a trainee-led audit and research collaborative between six NHS organisations in the region,...