Zed PR has a new administrator.

Alison rejoined Zed PR in February 2007 as its Business Administration Manager, having previously provided administrative support for the company in its infancy.

Alison brings many years of administration experience to Zed PR, having worked in London for such institutions as the Bank of England, Merrill Lynch and, for more than nine years, at the merchant bank, Schroders.    

Zed PR is celebrating the win of UK entrepreneur’s resource centre, www.Nick-James.com, as a new client. Following a successful pitch, Zed is hard at work introducing the site, and its “rags-to-riches” director Nick James, to regional and business media.

Drawing on Nick James’ own experiences, which saw him rise from car park attendant to successful businessman, www.Nick-James.com is an online-club for budding entrepreneurs wanting to generate some cash. The site meets an important market need, offering small businesses and start-ups its unique “human touch” advice and inspiration. With information ranging from marketing advice to ‘how-to’ features, the site is part business mentor, part online community for its members.

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Reference: TCPA recommendation for the creation of a new planning authority, Ofplan

ZEDHomes has reviewed with interest the Town and Country Planning Association’s paper ‘Regulating Planning – Ofplan’, issued March 2007.

Although this document failed to resonate widely, ZEDHomes would concur with the need for a wholesale change to the UK planning system.

Specifically, ZEDHomes would welcome any change that addresses the following issues:

- the need to drive Government policy through to local level, quickly and efficiently
- ability of policy makers to enforce such policy
- the need to educate planners in newer, more environmentally friendly building measures
- the current need for so many planning applications to be determined on appeal
- a lack of diversity in housing stock design and innovation: smaller developers find  the costs of appeal prohibitive and therefore err on the side of caution
- thousands of homes are currently being built without incorporating ecologically sustainable design, which will result in huge costs of correction from 2012.

“There’s a disconnect between the rhetoric and reality in terms of ‘greener’ homes,” said Michael Shwartz, Managing Director, ZEDHomes.  “This has to close quickly if we genuinely want to see a reduction in greenhouse gases, and reduce the waste of increasing scarce resources such as water.” 

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