Planning
RBKC refuses 427-home West Cromwell Road scheme
Planners knock back Londonewcastle's new plans for significant W14 site; push a decision on Notting Hill's Newcombe House to November
Permitted development rights extended as planning red tape axed
Homeowners in England are free to build larger rear extensions without full planning permission
Plans go in for 19-unit Sandbanks scheme
Bracken Group has submitted plans to replace a locally-listed C19th building on Sandbanks with a 19-apartment new-build scheme
Green light for two-house Notting Hill mews development
Super-prime building firm W11 is creating a pair of new mews houses off Chepstow Road
Housing Minister calls in ZHA’s Vauxhall Cross towers
Vauxhall Cross Island was approved by Lambeth Council last year
The Deep End: Avoiding headaches in basement building
Two very different mega-basement projects in Surrey and Knightsbridge demonstrate how these types of schemes come with their own unique set of factors, write Emma Shipp & Deborah Sharples...
‘I fear we’ll have the Thames lined with derelict towers’, warns former City planning chief
Not enough is being put aside from service charges to cover essential future refurb works in the London's rising residential schemes, says Peter Rees
Knock-back for PLP’s 1,500-home Westferry Printworks plan
Northern & Shell's PLP-designed proposal to upgrade the 15-acre Isle of Dogs scheme to deliver over 1,500 homes has been rejected
Planners knock back St John’s Wood apartment scheme
Thumbs-down for proposals to redevelop a car park and porter's lodge near Primrose Hill
Planning win for Dyson in Gloucestershire
Council backs proposals for five new dwellings at the billionaire inventor's glorious country seat
Coastal communities may have to move, warns Environment Agency in stark flood risk assessment
'In some cases, the scale of flooding or coastal change may be so significant [that it] may mean potentially moving communities out of harm’s way in the longer term'
Home improvement applications dwindle, but extensions hold up
'The impact of Brexit and any shift in GDP is likely to reduce [home improvement] activity further', warns Barbour ABI