Planning
Kensington & Chelsea adopts new planning regime
Key policy changes include a lower threshold for triggering the requirement for affordable housing, and a new stance on amalgamations in the royal borough...
‘Unscrupulous’ Westminster landlord hit with record £500k planning fine
Southwark Crown Court hands down the biggest ever penalty for a planning offence in Westminster after enforcement officers discover eight flats crammed into a three-bed house in Maida Vale
‘The planning system has been captured by those most opposed to new house-building’
A new report by Demos & Nationwide makes six recommendations to improve the UK's planning regime
50 years on: Why don’t local people have a greater say in their neighbourhoods?
There have been lots of planning policy overhauls since 1969, when the Government's Skeffington Report suggested 50 ways to get communities more involved in local property development matters.
Developers contribute £6bn a year to community infrastructure projects
New CIL reforms mean local councils now have to declare developers' contributions and how levies are spent
Robert Jenrick: Housing is my generation’s greatest challenge
Writing in The Times, the newly-appointed secretary of state for housing, communities and local government (and officially the cabinet's first millennial) promises to "level up" efforts to increase home…
Grosvenor’s McWilliam on how property developers can rebuild public trust
Following some public backlash to the proposed demolition of the Cundy Street flats and Walden House in Belgravia, Craig McWilliam, Chief Executive of Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, sets out the case for…
Grosvenor faces local blowback over Cundy Street regen
Local campaigners rail against the Duke of Westminster and plans to improve a swathe of South Belgravia
The effect of trees on rights of light
Issues around daylight, sunlight and RoL do not have a history of being straightforward, but modern technology may well change how assessing trees works in the future...
India & Camden clash over Primrose Hill townhouse conversion
A museum on King Henry's Road, dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern India, may have to be returned to resi use following Camden's refusal of retrospective planning permission
Plans submitted for an ‘innovative’ beach hut scheme in Poole
A development of 28 contemporary beach huts has been mooted near Dorset's Canford Cliffs
City of London launches UK’s first planning ‘wind guidelines’
Square Mile's 'robust' new framework, raising the requirements for acceptable wind conditions and taking cyclists into account for the first time, could form the basis for national or international standards…