Business rate reform will always mean winners and losers
The world has changed but business rates are still waiting on yet another review due out this autumn to be able to change and adapt with it.
Getting to know you…
Whatever you call it - proposal, tender, pitch, sales document, RFP response - are you keeping an eye on your cost of sales and your audience's needs and converting...
Using workplace data to guide our decisions
Technology has enabled us to mobilise and connect a distributed workforce
Business rate reform: what are the alternatives?
The burden of business rates has increased significantly over the past decade with tax rate increases sprinting past growth in capital gains on property. What is the alternative?
Revisiting your strategy (again)
The tone has changed. People are getting back to work. Stalled projects are starting to move again. It’s time to reconsider your positioning, strategy and tactics.
Court of Appeal refuses key VOA claim
In a key legal moment for business rates, the Valuation Office Agency has been denied permission to appeal a judgement it claimed would affect billions of pounds in rates...
Local Authorities refusing business rate relief to office-based companies
Many Local Authorities are refusing business rates relief to office-based companies whose staff are working remotely during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Covid-19 and residential proptech
Personal and community wellbeing have become more important as a result of the health crisis. Here I consider how technology could satisfy these requirements to greater effect.
The heart and soul of your business
If your business's daily operations are its skin and bones, keeping you moving forward and standing upright, then your mission and vision are its heart and soul.
Reflections from a virtual world
All it took for the development industry and local authorities to embrace digital technologies was a global health pandemic.
Kevin Whitmore
- North Region Director
- Built Environment Communications Group
- Public Consultation + Political Engagement
