Evoke Transport

🎅 🎄 Evoke Transport wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year! 🎉🌟 It seemed like an opportune moment to share some of our highlights of 2024! Thank you everyone for your continued support in 2024 as we reached our 5 Year milestone! Thank you to Team Evoke for all making the company what it is today! Richard Stacey, David Fletcher, Paul Kelly, Jon Williams, Olivia Hennessy, Pia Tiley, Tim Wilcox, Nathan Reed, Lucy Crasto and Clare. #theevokeway #MerryChristmas

Yesterday the Evoke team took the afternoon away from their desks to celebrate Christmas as a team 🎄 🎅 We started off at Clays for virtual clay target shooting which was well worth a shot! Paul hit the mark and came out top! 🔫 All that triggered the need for dinner at Cinnamon Kitchen, rounded off by David's annual quiz! 🍴 🏆 A great day out and good to get the whole team together to celebrate a successful year! 🎉 🎁 #theevokeway #christmasparty #celebrate Richard Stacey Paul Kelly Jon Williams Olivia Hennessy Pia Tiley Tim Wilcox Nathan Reed Lucy Crasto

🎄🎅 It's not just NPPF day! It's Christmas Jumper Day! 🎄🎅 Evoke are spreading the festive cheer by wearing our favourite Christmas jumpers , raising money for Save the Children. To give back further and make a bigger impact, we have dropped off our annual Christmas donations to Launchpad , a charity helping the homeless in Reading. Donations included food and toiletries for SWEP (Severe Weather Emergency Protocol) to help those without a home over Christmas. Let’s make this Christmas a little brighter for those in need. 🌟 #theevokeway #GiveBack #christmas

Congratulations to Rebecca Lock on winning our Christmas song contest and for her incredible bravery in taking on the "12 Dips of December" challenge raising money for Cancer Research UK. We have sent over our donation, if anyone wants to contribute to this great cause and cheer Rebecca on, you can do so at her fundraising page: https://lnkd.in/eSeyfnNw Every bit of support counts! 🌟🎄

🎶 And the winner is... 🎶 The votes are in, and your favourite Christmas song for 2024 is "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues! 🎄✨ As for our winner, the lucky one, came in at eighteen to one is Rebecca Lock! 🏆 We’ll be in touch to find out which charity Evoke will be donating to in your name.  As for those who voted? you could have been someone, well so could anyone, but thank you for helping spread the holiday cheer. Let’s keep the festive spirit alive! 🎅🎁

Planning permission granted! We are pleased to announce that 20 Hambridge Road Newbury has recently achieved planning consent. We shared some of this commercial project with you earlier this year but the full project is now available to view on our website... Thank you again to everyone involved and your expertise throughout the application process: Evoke Transport, auricl, Duncan Leather, Pro Sustainability Ltd & ARBTECH. #planningpermissiongranted #planning #workplacesandleisure

Are you ready to step in to Christmas? 🎄 Well we need your help settling an office debate! This festive season the Evoke Transport team have been discussing their favourite 🎵 Christmas song 🎶 and we need your help in settling the debate… Is it Buble or Bing? Lewie, Lee or Carey? Surely not Chris Martin? Either way our poll is ringing out for Christmas songs: 1) I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake (Richard's Choice) 2) Do they know it's Christmas? - Band Aid (Clare’s Choice) 3) Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie (David’s Choice) 4) It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - Bing Crosby version (Paul’s Choice) 5) Christmas Lights – Coldplay (Jon’s Choice) 6) Fairytale of New York - The Pogues (Olivia’s Choice) 7) Step into Christmas - Elton John (Pia’s Choice) 8) Rockin' around the Christmas tree - Brenda Lee (Tim’s Choice) 9) It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - Michael Buble version (Nathan’s Choice) 10) All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey (Lucy's Choice) The best part? If you vote by commenting your number (1-10) YULE 🪵 be entered in to a draw with the chosen name having a Charity Donation made to a charity of their choice 🎅 Let’s spread some holiday cheer and give back together!

Yesterday Tim Wilcox of Evoke Transport attended the 27th Annual TRICS CONSORTIUM LIMITED User Meeting. Here are some of Tim's key takeaways from the insightful day: - TRICS 8 is planned to be released in March and will involve a variety of new features, including a Time Series Analysis Module 🆕 ⏱️ - Updates to the London Plan are currently scheduled for release in 2027/28, with the updated document including higher housing targets, revisions to parking requirements, sections on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, and updated Transport Evidence 🏙️ 🏘️ - TfL's emerging TA Guidance is scheduled for release early next year with a number of refinements and a restructure designed to make TA's more uniform in both formatting and content 📄 - A research document is due to be released including detailed information on delivery and servicing movements in residential flats in London, including vehicles used and dwell times 🚛 - The second research piece covers Construction Traffic Analysis of Residential Developments and is due for release in early 2025 🏗️ Keep an eye on our page for further updates next year on the above! #theevokeway #usermeeting #trics

A busy week Out & About for the team at Evoke Transport Olivia Hennessy had a tortellini amazing evening joining Mac Mic Group's pasta making class in London! 🍝 Richard Stacey and David Fletcher attended a useful seminar by HCR Law at The Roseate Reading - Roseate Hotels & Resorts with Lewis Djemal talking through the key points from the budget and forthcoming NPPF! 📈 Followed by a catch up coffee with Squires Planning's Mark Campbell. ☕ David had a very useful meeting with Slough Borough Council, PAUL VICARY from DevComms, Sophie Hardy MRTPI from Hybrid Planning & Development and Nick Francis from FAL. Always good to see a scheme we worked on (The Moxy) enroute! 🏨 And finally Nathan Reed is only just forgiving Jon Williams for the state he left his car in after a site visit in Lincolnshire! 🚗

A fantastic project team and a great result. Look forward to seeing it delivered