Planning
New Scottish planning bill aims to create ‘a more proactive & enabling system’
Scottish Ministers have outlined their plans to improve the planning regime
‘Sustainable scorecard’ launched to help property developers & architects measure up to the NPPF
A new online tool promises to measure proposed developments' sustainability according to NPPF definitions
London Plan ‘could result in fewer new homes being delivered’
Mixed reactions to the capital's new 'strategic planning bible'
Khan ‘rips up’ London’s planning rulebook; looks to smaller schemes to deliver more housing
The new Draft London Plan wants higher-density residential property development, with smaller schemes (up to 25 units) delivering 24,500 new homes in London each year.
On Your Bikes: Khan plans parking clampdown at London’s new developments
Draft London Plan to announce 'car-free' requirement for new housing schemes near public transport...
Planners OK 573-unit Camden Goods Yard development, with a rooftop chilli farm
Barratt gets the nod for a significant mixed-use project on the Morrisons supermarket/petrol station site on Chalk Farm Road, including the UK's biggest urban rooftop farm and a micro-brewery
High Time: Facing down the challenge of developing London’s rooftops
As the government finally cottons on to the £50 billion opportunity sitting above the buildings of central London, Howard Kennedy's Peter Birkett and Knight Frank's Charles Dugdale talk us through the…
Natural England revamps its very useful interactive map tool
The MAGIC map delivers data on everything from land covered by the Countryside Rights of Way Act to locations of protected bird species, and from geology and landscape classifications to which organisations…
Planning nod for 51-apartment Baker Street project
Derwent and Portman's JV gets the thumbs-up after design tweaks.
There’s been an 82% surge in house-building on AONB sites in the last five years
"Reckless" mass housing developments are threatening England's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, says the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Kensington amalgamation project gets the green light in double planning decision
RBKC planners have approved the amalgamation of properties on Elvaston Place and Elvaston Mews to create one five-bed residence, agreeing a five-unit restoration project around the corner at the same time…
Upwards & Onwards: Central London rooftops could hold the key to 41,000 new homes
New airspace mapping tool estimates more than 28 million sq ft of potential additional resi floor area could be developed in the capital, with a potential value of £51 billion