Planning
Green light for M&G’s mixed-use project in Fitzrovia
The Stiff + Trevillion-designed redevelopment of 247 Tottenham Court Road will deliver eight new apartments and lots of office space.
Jenrick signs off Mayor Khan’s London Plan; calls on Boroughs to go further
"You still have a very long way to go to meet London’s full housing need," Housing Minister Robert Jenrick told London Mayor Sadiq Khan, "something your plan clearly and starkly fails to achieve."
Outer London’s top 10 retail-to-resi development hotspots
Planning changes have opened the door to the creation of over 16,ooo new homes across the capital's various "town centre" locations, says estate agency KFH, as it identifies London's top 10 areas for retail-to-residential…
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...