Planning
Birmingham planners approve Britain’s first ‘super slender’ resi tower
211 Broad Street in Birmingham will rise 37 storeys, but will be just 9.5 metres wide.
Eric Parry’s rejected Dolphin Square revamp heads to appeal
Westbrook Partners is appealing Westminster's dismissal of its revamp proposal for Dolphin Square in Pimlico.
City of London names interim planning chief
Gwyn Richards will take the reins from the retiring Annie Hampson OBE next month
Basement planning applications have tanked in Westminster
The annual total fell below 100 last year, following a series of high-profile disputes and a tightening up of council policy
Bristol Council approves Zaha Hadid’s mixed-use neighbourhood
Legal & General's Temple Island - once earmarked for a new arena - promises to deliver around 500 new homes in central Bristol, alongside a conference centre and hotel.
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