Government Consults on new permitted development rights to allow town centre uses to convert to residential
The Government has issued a consultation paper seeking views on a proposed new permitted development right for the change use from the new Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) use class to residential in an effort to “support economic recovery, housing delivery and the regeneration of our high streets and town centres”. Gemma Dudley of Hewitsons provides the details.
Late excitement on Celebrity Bottom Drawer auction site as original Tracey Emin work joins mega sale of A-listers’ stuff
Tracey Emin has just put an original piece of artwork up for auction on the Celebrity Bottom Drawer site – alongside items from the likes of Dawn French, racehorse Enable, Cate Blanchett, Ed Sheeran, Delia Smith, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais and Coldplay – with bidding to close this Sunday (6 December).
Blue Tap secures Innovate UK Smart Grant
Blue Tap, a water purification social enterprise founded by University of Cambridge PhD student Francesca O’Hanlon, has secured an Innovate UK Smart Grant towards the technical development of its chlorine doser for use in developing countries.
District Councils open Additional Restrictions Support Grant schemes
The six District Councils across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough are now accepting applications for their respective Additional Restrictions Support Grant schemes.
TTP Cambridge Half Marathon launches ‘Run Everyone’, a virtual event to engage the Cambridge business community
Organisers of TTP Cambridge Half Marathon are today officially launching Cambridge’s first ever virtual run, ‘Run Everyone’, an initiative to get businesses and organisations across Cambridge competing in a virtual run throughout March 2021.
GCP Board asked to agree next steps on Cambourne to Cambridge
The Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Executive Board will be asked to agree the next steps on the Cambourne to Cambridge transport project.
NERC scientists honoured with Antarctica place names
To mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica, 26 places on the frozen continent have been named in honour of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists.
Gaia: scientists take a step closer to revealing origins of our galaxy
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has announced the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy.
Shop local and shop safely: Cambridge MP tours local businesses on Small Business Saturday
Shopping bags in hand, this Small Business Saturday (tomorrow, 5 December), Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner will kick off his Christmas shopping as he supports local businesses in Cambridge city centre, encouraging residents to “shop local” and “shop safely”.
Improved planning advice service launched for Greater Cambridge
The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service has revamped the way it provides advice to people in the area who plan to submit a planning application, to bring the two separate processes previously offered by Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils into a single, new, streamlined service.
World’s largest single train methanol plants to use Johnson Matthey technology
Johnson Matthey (JM), United Kingdom, a global leader in sustainable technologies, including those for the most energy and environmentally efficient production of methanol from syngas, has secured a multiple licence win for China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group’s latest project to develop five of the largest single train methanol plants in the world.
Christmas ads 2020: See who nailed it and how
Christmas ads are a staple of any big brand’s marketing and advertising strategy. Sookio has rounded up its top picks this year. Here is what works and why...
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'This campaign is concerning' - Darktrace expert comments on Covid-19 vaccine cyber-attacks
Following today's BBC report that the supply chain for the Covid-19 vaccine had faced an orchestrated and sophisticated cyber-attack, Max Heinemeyer, Director of Threat Hunting at Darktrace, comments:
Further changes to the General Permitted Development Order come into force
Further changes to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (“the Order”) will come into force today. Hewitsons explains.
Paragraf and partners help to drive electric transport revolution
Paragraf, the leader in graphene-based transformative electronic sensors and devices, is helping to realise an industry first by implementing a supply chain for graphene Hall-Effect sensors used in high-temperature Power Electronics, Electric Machines and Drives (PEMD) within the aerospace sector.
Innovate UK funded project produces next-generation AI drug discovery platform
CAMBRIDGE, and MACCLESFIELD, UK, 3 December 2020 – The consortium behind the DeepADMET project set up to advance artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery, today announced the successful conclusion of this project which was funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency.
Cloud adoption and remote work environments fuel rise in Database DevOps
Marking its fifth year examining the global tech community’s practices around DevOps and database development, Redgate’s 2021 State of Database DevOps Report will be unlike any other before it. In a year of unprecedented firsts with a global pandemic, IT professionals and database administrators evolved their database development practices in 2020.
CPD success means training is still a priority in Cambridge
Despite the pandemic, Cambridge Network companies and individuals have continued to invest in training to improve their knowledge and skills, together earning a total of more than 6,500 CPD (Continuous Professional Development) points.
Qualcomm and Audio Analytic partnership: 2021 will be the year smartphones understand the acoustic world around us
Audio Analytic has announced that its ai3-nano™ software and Acoustic Scene Recognition AI technology is pre-validated and optimised to run in always-on, low-power mode running on the Qualcomm® Sensing Hub, part of the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 888 5G Mobile Platform.
No country ‘immune’ to COVID-19 economic shock, but Asian nations will bounce back faster
Study uses 40 years of quarterly data to forecast a lengthy global recession resulting from coronavirus, with the manufacturing bases of China and East Asia predicted to fare better than most Western economies.
British businesses redraw global trade footprint
British businesses are creating a new trading footprint around the world, according to a new report, A New World for Global British Business, by Lloyds Bank and Aston Business School released today.
Auction items raise over £53,000 and counting for EACH
Five days of bidding on stuff from famous people - including Dawn French, racehorse Enable, Cate Blanchett, Ed Sheeran, Delia Smith, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais and Coldplay - has already raised over £53,000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).