Planning
New build values in Mayfair “to triple by 2050”
Shrill accusations and sullen aftermaths - who doesn't love a good old-fashioned "game" of Monopoly? Well it seems the geniuses behind the boardgame were also purveyors of uncannily reliable real estate…
Boom in residential conversions as planning approvals hit record levels
The number of office sites being converted to domestic accommodation is set to rise significantly over the next two years - primarily in Central London - driven by the continuing rise in residential values,…
£60m prime resi opportunity for Cavendish Square?
A 63,000 square foot block at 19 Cavendish Square has just been put on the market for £60m with Whitmarsh Holt Young, Savills and Jones Lang LaSalle.
New “Gateway to Southwark” planned
Global asset management firm The Carlyle Group is planning to go big in Southwark: the firm is due to submit detailed plans for a 1
HS2: property owners “must act”
So proposals for the HS2 compensation and safeguarding schemes have finally been announced and on-the-ball Knight Frank are urging property owners to act now
Crown Estate offers a peach of a resi development opportunity in the City
St Dunstan's House on Fetter Lane - a stonking development site in central London with planning for conversion from offices into 76 luxury residential apartments - has been put on the market by the Crown …
RTPI launches planning Map for England
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has launched a website of the Map for England initiative, an online mapping portal that collates a whole gamut of publicly available datasets that might affect…
Giant turbines at St Breock wind farm, Cornwall, approved
Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee has approved proposals to erect five 100m-high wind turbines on St Breock Downs, near Bodmin
Planning permission time extension extended
The Department for Communities and Local Government has confirmed that 2009's temporary provision that allows for the extension of time-limits on unimplemented planning permissions, has been extended for…
High rise plans may be scuppered by Westminster
High rise buildings could be off the menu in Westminster and on the Southbank after Robert Ayton, head of design and conservation at Westminster City Council, told architects that he supports Unesco's…
Centre Point scheme goes back to the drawing board
Almacantar's plans for Centre Point, which include converting the entire main tower into 82 residential apartments, have been rejected by Camden Council
Art Vs. Property on Cork Street
The two stellar asset classes of our troubled times are running a pitched battle down the length of one of Mayfair's finest streets