Planning

Stanhope and the BBC have just submitted their planning application to turn West London's Television Centre into a 14-acre mixed use development with around 1,000 residential units.

Has the National Planning Policy Framework had the intended effect of smoothing the way for housing delivery in England, asks Savills' Melys Pritchett.

Westminster planners have given the thumbs up to a right royal restoration and development of Grosvenor Gardens House in Belgravia.

**UPDATE: Plans approved! Braeburn Estates (the JV between Canary Wharf and Qatari Diar) has bagged planning permission for the Shell Centre site.

The British Property Federation has today called for the government to consider further reforms to streamline the judicial review process and reduce the unnecessary delay and cost to development projects.

Property development group Alchemi is having a pretty strong run of it, bagging three major prime resi planning approvals within the last month.

The top brass at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea have undergone something of a reshuffle, announcing a raft of internal changes including a new Chairman of the Planning Committee.

The UK's Eastern Region looks to be in bullish form after a marked increase in planning applications, new developments, transaction volumes, town and country house prices and mortgage approvals.

It's looking good for Canary Wharf and Qatari Diar on the Southbank, as their 2.

Only 15% of respondents to the Government's consultation supported new permitted development rights that double the size of extensions allowed without the need for planning permission, according to results…

299 of the 455 applications made by homeowners living in the shadow of HS2's first stage have been rejected, according to reports today.

A new "one-stop-shop service for planning consents" will, according to Whitehall, make major infrastructure projects easier to get off the ground by reducing the number of bodies developers need to consult…