Planning
Mapped: East & North-West boroughs drive London’s new housing pipeline growth
Planning and development activity in the capital has 'remained stoic' in the face of uncertainty, says Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward
On the Science of Place: Ten steps for successful placemaking (and why St James’s Square is officially London’s most beautiful address)
'Groundbreaking' study by Cadogan & Create Streets looks into what really makes a place tick, providing ten key steps for developers, architects, planning authorities and landowners to follow, and explaining…
‘We Are Hampstead!’: North London residents up in arms over boundary redraw
Proposals to reclassify a number of streets in the Hampstead Town ward as Gospel Oak have not gone down well in NW3...
Just 2% of the public trust developers – Grosvenor
Major new survey reveals that public trust in the UK planning system is 'almost non-existent'; GBI describes results as a 'significant wake-up call', pledges to help drive some industry-wide changes
Commission suggests a ‘beauty first’ approach to planning & property development
Planners should 'say no to ugliness', says the interim report from the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, and retail parks and supermarkets should be given mixed-use makeovers
Cadogan & RBKC unveil £40m plan to revamp Sloane Street
John McAslan + Partners commissioned to redesign one of PCL's most famous thoroughfares as an 'elegant green boulevard', with planting by Chelsea Flower Show winner Andy Sturgeon
Planners make progress as appeals decided in record time
Two planning appeals have been decided in record time, using the new system devised by Bridget Rosewell earlier this year
Plans go in for 74-home development of Battersea brewery site
GRID Architects has designed a mixed-use scheme for The Cherwell Group
Manchester’s Boddingtons Brewery site cleared for resi-led development
Assael-designed scheme on the edge of Manchester City centre will deliver 556 new homes
Small site planning delays are stalling the engine of UK development
Unacceptable delays - sometimes lasting a year or more - are forcing individual building projects to be abandoned, slowing UK development, and putting small and medium-sized firms out of business, says…
Green light for ‘elaborate & expressive’ new country house in Kent
Two-faced property designed by Hawkes Architecture has been granted planning approval under the Para 79 Country House Clause
Scottish MPs approve ‘radical’ planning reforms
Scotland's new Planning Bill aspires to create 'a more inclusive and collaborative planning system'