Day: 24 September 2026

A client called me two years ago because a crack had opened along the top of his boundary fence and was spreading, slowly, toward the gatehouse he’d just finished plastering.

A client once handed me a receipt for 600 bags of cement he’d already paid for and asked me to confirm his contractor hadn’t cheated him on quantity. He hadn’t

Somebody sent me a “property map” last week that was three years old, missing half a new estate that had already been built, and still had a swamp marked where

A student sent me a message last month that I want to quote almost exactly, because it’s the question behind everything in this article: “I have QGIS installed, I know

Let me guess how you got here. You’re either a student trying to finish a project before a Monday deadline, a planning consultant who just got a job in a

A student sent me a screenshot last year that I still think about. He had digitized a plot boundary in QGIS, and on his map, the plot was sitting confidently

A student sent me a message last month that stuck with me: “I’ve watched six ArcGIS tutorials and I still don’t know what I’m actually supposed to do with it.”

Let me tell you what usually happens. Someone reaches out to me a client buying land in a new axis, a student about to graduate, sometimes a fellow planner just

A student once handed me a “land use map” for her final year project. It had colours, a legend, even a north arrow. It also had a residential zone floating

Let me tell you something I’ve watched happen more times than I can count. A landlord gets frustrated with a tenant late rent, damaged property, constant complaints, whatever it is

Introduction to Master Planning: How to Prepare a Master Plan for Cities, Estates and Towns Let’s clear up something first, because it trips up almost every client and student I’ve