Planning
50% of London new-builds should be affordable: Khan’s ‘firm new rules’
Labour's Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has laid out a pledge, backed-up with "firm new rules for developers", to make 50% of new homes built on public and brownfield land across London affordable.
Paddington’s controversial ‘skinny Shard’ to be downsized
It looks like Irvine Sellar and Westminster Council have caved to widespread opposition to Renzo Piano's design for a "skinny Shard" in W2, nicknamed the "Paddington Pole", making a call to "revise the…
‘Domesday Book’ of London’s public land goes live
A comprehensive "Domesday Book" of all the public land in London has been unveiled online.
Historic Highgate mansion ‘sells for £20m’
One of north London's most important period properties has reportedly changed hands for £20m.
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RBKC to publish planners’ advice
Kensington & Chelsea Council is to start publishing the pre-application advice given by its planning officers.
BoJo backs British Land’s Norton Folgate scheme
A controversial plan to redevelop a swathe of historic Spitalfields warehouses has been given the go-ahead by Mayor BoJo after a long-running battle.
Planning ‘pushes London further behind new homes aims’
Planning has pushed London’s new homes ambition backwards as Q3 2015 saw last year’s promising start reversed, with just 5,740 new homes in absolute terms approved, according to the latest London New Hom…
Green light for London Square’s Isleworth scheme
Planners have given resi developer London Square the go-ahead to build a new mixed-use scheme on London Road in Isleworth
Development partner sought for giant Battersea regeneration project
Wandsworth Council is on the hunt for a joint venture partner to deliver one of south west London's biggest regeneration projects
Dispute Revolution: Are boundaries there to be pushed?
There is a little-known Bill currently going through the motions in Parliament that could have a big impact on the way high-end resi developers deal with neighbourly issues
Planning application competition ‘could relieve burden on cash-strapped local authorities’
An amendment in the Housing and Planning Bill that could see external parties taking some of the planning strain away from under-resourced councils is a "step in the right direction", according to the Bri…
Stuck In The System: Housebuilders hit back at ‘bumper backlog’ claims
A weary Home Builders Federation has hit back at claims that developers in England are sitting on a record 475,647 green-lit, but unbuilt, new homes.