Planning
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
Notting Hill Police Station designated as an Asset of Community Value
RBKC's decision effectively puts any sale of the landmark building in Holland Park on hold for six months
Capco and H&F look to revise the Earls Court masterplan
"Enhanced" masterplan could see 2,500 more residential units
“It’s crazy that ministers are getting involved in schemes of a few dozen homes”
93% of housing developments called in by Sajid Javid have been in Conservative constituencies, according to research by Irwin Mitchell, and the same high proportion resulted in decisions going against…
RBKC knocks back another grand amalgamation project
Planners refuse permission - again - to return a Pembridge Place mansion to its original configuration
Wandsworth scheme gets the green light after Mayoral tweaks
Khan steps in to boost affordable housing elements; over-rules Wandsworth Council