Planning
Storage Hunters: McLaren eyeing up Vauxhall Bondway
McLaren Properties is looking to turn 69-71 Vauxhall Bondway, the Vauxhall Bondway Self-Storage site, into around 300,000 sq ft of high-end high-rise resi units.
Earls Court Masterplan scoops World Architecture Festival Award
London masterplans featured heavily at this year's World Architecture Awards in Singapore, with both Earls Court and the BBC redevelopment in White City being shortlisted.
£2.5bn wall of resi investment for London’s Docklands
After four years of very little action to speak of, it's all kicking off in London's Docklands after a flurry of "game-changing" resi land deals.
Carlyle’s Gateway to Southbank cluster gets go-ahead
Carlyle Group's big plans for a "Gateway to Southwark" have been formally approved by the Council.
Image by DBOX for the Carlyle Group and PLP Architecture
A new young lion for Housing Ministry?
Kris Hopkins' first job should be to rid the planning system of political influences, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Green light for Village Green development
It's now a bit easier to build on village greens, thanks to new landowner rights that came in yesterday (1st October 2013).
Planning nod for Southbank’s £1bn high-rise cluster
Carlyle Group's big plans for a "Gateway to Southwark" have been recommended for approval by the Council.
Image by DBOX for the Carlyle Group and PLP Architecture
Star turn for West End resi as planning, prices and sales hit new high notes
Soho and Mayfair are the West End's star resi performers, according to a new comprehensive review of the West End residential property market from Wetherell.
Fine & Country launches Land & New Homes division
Fine & Country has set up a Land and New Homes division in Warwickshire and the West Midlands.
“Britain’s most expensive knock-down” hits the market in Mayfair
Already dubbed "Britain's most expensive house knock-down", Mayfair agency Wetherell has just started marketing a £35m Mount Row mews house with mighty aspirations.
The West End’s 5.2 million sq ft of office-to-resi conversions
Over 1.2 million square feet of office space in London's West End was converted into residential in 2012, according to new research by property consultants H2SO.
OK to build in National Parks; just offset the nature somewhere – Paterson
This sounds like a really bad idea: The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is scheduled to announce that developers can build in National Parks, just so long as they do some "biodiversity offsetting"…