Planning
Cornish resort to ban new holiday homes?
St Ives, the properly lovely artists' retreat / fishing town / home of a Tate in Cornwall, is drawing up plans that might stop the construction of any new holiday homes
RBKC dishes out record number of planning enforcement notices
RBKC's Planning Enforcement Team has been out in force in 2014, issuing an unprecedented number of notices on developments right across the borough.
7 Solutions to the Housing Supply Conundrum: Unpicked
Delivery of more housing - ideally something close to a quarter of a million new homes a year - is topping out many agendas as May's electioneering gathers pace.
Boris and the BPF lobby to keep office-to-resi out of central London
"More high value residential property in central London could upset balance," argues Boris Johnson as the Mayor of London, the British Property Federation, Planning Officers Society London and London F…
RBKC planning chief to retire
RBKC's Executive Director for Planning and Borough Development has announced his retirement.
Green Figures: Investment in public realm can ‘double’ average values
Investing in good quality landscape design should be the first thing developers consider when planning a scheme, the Landscape Institute has said in the wake of a new study into the UK's housebuilding …
BoJo sorts out green light for Mount Pleasant
One of the largest - and most controversial - schemes in central London has finally been given the thumbs up by Mayor Boris Johnson.
Vertical Horizon: Investing in the future of London’s skyline
An extraordinary profusion of new structures will dramatically alter the shape of London's horizon over the next few years, including the 64-storey 'The Pinnacle' and the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed 'Scalp…
Major planning permissions ‘at a 10 year high’ as permitted developments take off
There's been a slight increase in the number of planning applications and approvals, according to new data released by the UK Statistics Authority, which takes the number of major approvals to a ten year …
Three of the Best: Single-Unit Development Opportunities
It's been a bumper week for those looking for big-budget single-unit development projects in and around the capital, with a slew of super-prime parcels of land and trophy houses of tomorrow hitting the mar…
Greenland brews bigger Ram plans in Wandsworth
Greenland Group, the Chinese state-owned property developer and investor, has applied for an upgrade to its plans for the residential tower at the heart of its Ram Brewery scheme in Wandsworth
‘Legal battle’ over US Embassy redevelopment
Tempers appear to be fraying in Grosvenor Square over the redevelopment of the US Embassy building, or rather the lack of it..