Planning

A buyer has just shelled out £150k at auction for an unexcavated basement in London's Bloomsbury.

The Royal Borough's planning enforcement team is one of the most active in the UK, according to new figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government.

Q2 saw a 40% leap in the number of properties converted from office, retail, and agricultural use and into resi across England.

Developer Clivedale has won planning permission to convert JLL's former offices on Hanover Square into 41 luxury apartments and a hotel.

One of the most important remaining development sites in RBKC

The Mayor of London has come up with a plan to "transform East London" and deliver more than 200,000 homes and 250,000 jobs.

In the wake of last week's big announcement by David Cameron, James Lawrence talks us through the real implications of office-to-resi permitted development rights becoming permanent...

Sellar Property Group has pulled back the covers on plans to turn the former Royal Mail sorting office next to Paddington Station into west London's tallest skyscraper, kickstarting a £1bn makeover…

RBKC has given the nod to Cadogan Estates' rejigged plans for the mixed-use development of the Curzon Cinema site on the King's Road, after last year's designs were thrown out.

Holborn/Liverpool/Kuala Lumpar-based practice Falconer Chester Hall has been given the green light to do up, extend and rejig a rundown end-of-terrace in Chelsea.

A mighty 128,000 square foot resi scheme with a GDV of £250m has just been given the go-ahead on The Bishops Avenue in north London.

Britain's planning system is "on the brink", warns a new report by the British Property Federation and GL Hearn, as the number of major applications (of 10 or more dwellings) tumbles and determination…