Planning
Green light for Galliard & Apsley’s £165m Soho Wharf in Birmingham
12-acre canal-side regeneration project designed by Claridge Architects gets the thumbs-up from planners.
Beautiful homes & tree-lined streets should be ‘the norm not the exception’
Roger Scruton and Nicolas Boys Smith's final report for the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission has been published, offering a series of policy proposals and practical recommendations to make…
Rethinking the planning system: Downing Street to consider ‘wholesale reform’
Influential think tank Policy Exchange has published a blueprint for the "urgent wholesale reform" of the planning system, calling for a "clean break" with the current regime.
New pictures show ‘bold new vision’ for Victoria
'Ambitious' new public realm and placemaking proposals are aimed at improving the area for residents and visitors
Allies & Morrison floats ‘flexible’ mixed-use plans for Canary Wharf’s North Quay
Canary Wharf is pitching a "flexible" mixed-use masterplan for its three-acre North Quay site, potentially promising around 950 new homes next to the new Crossrail station.
Jenrick: ‘We’ll make it easier to build beautiful homes, to end the myth that quality is the enemy of supply’
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick trails the publication of the late Roger Scruton's Building Better, Building Beautiful report.
Green light for new Turnham Green apartment block
Keith Williams Architects has designed a new six-storey building in Chiswick, delivering 34 apartments and some retail space overlooking Turnham Green
Planners agree to Ocubis’s resi-to-hotel switch on Albert Embankment
Jon Hunt's development firm wins planning approval to replace a consented residential-led scheme opposite Tate Britain with a new hotel.
Plans approved for Birmingham’s tallest tower
EPIL has won consent for a 61-storey resi skyscraper that will feature the highest restaurant in the UK outside of London
Green light for East London’s vast Westferry Printworks development
Richard Desmond's 15-acre former print works site on the Isle of Dogs is set to deliver around 1,500 new homes.
City of London planning chief to retire
Annie Hampson OBE will step down as the City's Chief Planning Officer in March.
Scotland clamps down on short-lets
Councils to be given new powers to tackle issues caused by the massive growth in homes being offered up as short-term accommodation;