Planning
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
‘A serious review of London’s Green Belt must be considered’ – LSE
Boffins at the LSE have come up with a plan to make house-building on the Green Belt more acceptable.
New home registrations at highest level since the crash (but what’s going on in London?)
A total of 41,222 new homes were registered by the National House Building Council throughout the UK in Q2, an uptick of 1% on the same period last year.
Fruition gets green light for Putney air rights development
Four one- and two-bed penthouse apartments on top of an existing block in Putney
RBKC developer fined for noisy building work
The Royal Borough is coming down hard on noisy construction works at the weekend after bringing in its “tough new regime".
Scotland plans to extend permitted development rights to build more, faster
Scotland's government is planning to extend permitted development rights (PDRs) in an effort to get more homes built and to speed up the planning process.
King’s Road Crossrail hub gets TfL backing
The prospect of a Crossrail station on the King's Road in Chelsea has moved a step closer.
Gavin Barwell steps up as new minister for housing, planning and London
Appointed as Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Minister for London
Government ‘must up housing target by 50% and build 300,000 homes a year’ says Lords’ report
The Government must lift its target by a full 50% and build 300,000 homes each year to tackle the housing crisis, according to the cross-party House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.
Green light for Vinopolis redevelopment; Meyer Bergman to ‘add new dimension’ to Bankside
Southwark Borough Council has green-lighted the redevelopment of the former wine-tasting venue Vinopolis into a 197,786 square foot mixed-use scheme.
‘We need better designed houses’ says the new Prime Minister
Theresa May picks up the keys to No.10 Downing Street this afternoon, completing the deal rather more quickly than expected.
Developer given two years to rebuild pub ‘brick by brick’
A resi developer in north London has been given two years to rebuild a pub it demolished to make way for a new apartment scheme.