INTRODUCTION
WELCOME WORKING THROUGH THE COVID STORM
Summer 2020 has been confined to the memory and the leaves on the trees have changed colour as we embrace Autumn in what continue to be unchartered times. Some semblance of normality has returned with schools back in, team sport back on the agenda and a much desired routine re-emerging amongst family life. But without doubt there is continued concern about what the coming weeks and months will bring as we battle against further waves of Coronavirus. It is a year that no-one could possibly have imagined and certainly one that we will never forget.
socially distancing. Watching the daily bulletin from Westminster and then the follow up from Arlene and Michelle at Stormont to find out the latest Covid case tally. Easing the natural stresses and tension with a daily run or cycle. And tending to the home schooling.
thanks to our strong IT capabilities we have managed to maintain our high level of service for clients and continue to remain productive across our diverse work portfolio.
March 2020 will be forever stamped in our minds in years to come when we recall how we experienced lockdown. Our one walk a day. The queue to enter the local supermarket,
We closed the Clyde Shanks office shutters on 16 March and thanks to our strong IT capabilities and excellent help from our external printing suppliers, Service Graphics, we managed to maintain our high level of service for clients and continue to remain productive across our diverse work portfolio. A return to the office and a rota balance of part office working and part home working has been ongoing since late June. As a business we have maintained our professional team and continued to work hard across our diverse project work. We have adjusted to the initial home working and since June have embraced a flexible part office part home working routine. As a busy planning consultancy we are operating in a new world with preapplication community consultation taking place online rather than in person. Council planning committees have
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