Planning
City living shake-up to deliver ‘new generation of town houses’
Government confirms major policy change to encourage building on top of existing blocks of flats, houses, shops and offices in built-up areas...
Labour plans to force property owners to sell development land to the state at a discount
Corbyn's team wants to strip out planning uplifts and hope value, building on a proposal mooted last week by the Conservative Housing Secretary Sajid Javid
London planners turning down one in four resi schemes
EG data shows over 1,000 projects have been refused since 2012...
Grosvenor picks Redrow for Oxford project
“21st century garden suburb” delivering 900 new homes
Government moves to take a more ‘muscular’ role in forcing developers to build on sites more quickly
Sajid Javid calls for "use it or lose it" planning permissions and more compulsory purchase orders to dissuade developers from "land-banking"
Westminster takes tough line on Regent’s Park mansion scheme
Westbourne Capital Partners looking to return a Grade I terrace back into 13 single residences
Berkeley & Mount Anvil schemes scoop top gongs at Planning Awards
Abell & Cleland awarded Best Place to Live; Dollar Bay named Best New Iconic Building
New affordable housing rules ‘will sound the death knell for many SME developers’
A change to the rules on affordable housing for smaller sites would have a devastating effect on the very business the Government is trying to support, warns Adam Hesse, Director at Aston Mead Land &…
New housing can be affordable and homely if builders learn lessons from the car industry – and IKEA
If there was ever a time to introduce mass-produced affordable housing, surely that time is now...
One in ten new homes was a former office – LGA
PDR delivering much-needed homes, say local councils, but at what cost?
Big blow for Delancey’s Elephant & Castle mega-scheme
Initial thumbs-down from Southwark after epic eight-hour planning meeting
Council agrees compulsory purchase of the new Chelsea stadium’s shadow
Hammersmith & Fulham helps Chelsea FC circumvent rights of light challenge from local residents