Planning
Green light for Hampshire’s biggest mixed-use development project
Covering some 1,000 acres just north of Fareham, proposals Welborne Garden Village have moved a large step closer to reality.
A hole of your own: The lowdown on building basements in the post-iceberg age
Figures out earlier this month suggest the days of the mega-basement are behind us in Prime Central London, but what should those still intent on attempting a subterranean project know?
Green light for Avanton’s new ‘urban village’ in Richmond
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has sided with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to allow a £250m resi-led development in SW London.
Planning clampdown stamps out PCL’s mega-basement boom
New figures show a massive decline in basement-related applications across RBKC & Westminster since the introduction of stringent rules designed to prevent over-development.
Planners reconsider controversial Westferry Printworks approval
The Planning Inspectorate is re-opening the book on Northern & Shell's scandal-hit Westferry Printwork's development in East London.
Green light for the West End’s largest development of 2020
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has secured planning permission for the £500m redevelopment of South Molton Triangle's "forgotten backstreets", linking Mayfair to Oxford Street.
Revisions to the Standard Method: Will new planning reforms deliver?
Nick Ireland & Paul McColgan of planning consultancy Iceni Projects explore what impact a change to the planning formula - designed to promote more housebuilding - could have on our cities...
Housebuilding formula to push urban & brownfield sites in planning reform rethink
The pandemic has "created a generational opportunity for the repurposing of offices and retail as housing and for urban renewal", says Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick.
Don’t tax working from home to save the office – build more homes
Well-designed office-to-resi conversions can revitalise our cityscapes as they undergo dramatic changes accelerated by the pandemic, argues Grant Lipton...
Conversion Starter: Is housing the future of the high street?
Nicola Gooch explains the significance of the latest proposals to shake up the general permitted development order.
Green light for Hammerson & Ballymore’s Bishopsgate Goodsyard
In Pictures: The Mayor of London has approved the major mixed-use regeneration of a 10-acre site in Shoreditch, 20 years after developers acquired it and six years after plans were first submitted.
Westminster launches ‘groundbreaking’ support service for developers
New scheme promises to speed up the planning and delivery of building projects across the borough.