Planning
Westminster Council defends ‘gifting’ policy
Council fends off new questions over conflicts of interest after staff receive 240 individual gifts in a two-year period
How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
"Urban areas have been creating flood risk," writes Lee Bosher. "And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development."
Knight Dragon ups resi numbers at Greenwich Peninsula
A revised Allies & Morrison masterplan has been submitted to Greenwich Council, featuring 1,800 more new homes
Pidgley calls for planning system overhaul
'We need a central body that buys land, awards planning permission, then passes on the returns to the local community,' says boss of the UK's most influential housebuilder
Westminster approves its 20-year ‘blueprint for development’
Westminster City Council has voted to approve its new "City Plan 2019-2040"
Green light for major mixed-use scheme in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter
Joint venture partners Galliard Homes and Apsley House Capital plan to create a new neighbourhood called St Paul’s Quarter
Revolutionary ‘live hub’ of London planning data to launch next year
Ambitious project to automate the London Planning Database confirms 2020 rollout, promising to 'revolutionise the way we do things'
Final sign-off granted for Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens site
Planning approval for landscape designs mean that works can finally start on the 4.9 acre site next year.
Understanding Westminster’s development landscape in ten maps
The evidence base for the borough's new policy on tall buildings serves up a veritable feast of data on everything from transport accessibility to topography...
Each planning application receives an average of 2.2 objections
Private rights of access, loss of a view, and land and boundary disputes have caused the most planning objections in the last three years
Westminster’s new City Plan goes to the vote on 13th November
Westminster's "ambitious" set of new planning policies are to go before the City Council’s Full Council for consideration next month.
New development corporation push promises more new towns ‘on the scale of Canary Wharf’
Sir George Iacobescu is on board to advise on a new Government fund to encourage large-scale regional development