Planning
Product Basement: The Ladbroke Road project with big plans
A rare development opportunity on one of Notting Hill's best streets has just come up for sale, complete with permission for a double-storey basement extension. Got to be worth a look...
Galliard on track for luxury loft scheme in Camden
Galliard is cracking on with another luxury resi scheme, having won planning permission to convert an Edwardian warehouse in Camden into 85 loft style apartments.
Has this Vauxhall tower block just been sold for £90m?
A brutalist landmark in Vauxhall, SW London, has reportedly been sold for £90m to make way for a £600m luxury resi scheme.
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Savills hires neighbourly matters expert
Savills has bolstered its building and project consultancy team with the appointment of former CBRE man Andrew D Thompson.
South Ken basement dig halted by planners
RBKC planners have stepped in to stop an unauthorised basement excavation on Stanhope Mews
The New Victorians: The rise of the SW1 skyline
As Victoria hits the property headlines yet again - this time for the sale of New Scotland Yard - local agency Hathaways casts an eye over the developments that are returning this transport hub to its…
Homeward Bound: The West End’s 1.8m sq ft office-to-resi pipeline
Just under 800,000 sq ft of West End offices were converted into homes in 2013, says Colliers International, with another 1.82m sq ft of conversion projects now in the homeward-bound pipeline.
Brouhaha in West Hampstead over plans for thirtieth estate agency
It's all kicking off in NW London. The tally of estate agencies in leafy West Hampstead could be about to top thirty, and other high street businesses in the area are not happy. At all
Lift off for government property search engine
It's just got a whole lot easier to find underused and empty government land and property
The Housing Standards Review: What can developers expect?
In a drive to simplify the myriad of standards, guidance and codes that apply to the construction of new homes in the UK, the government announced in March that current housing standards are to be reduced…
Green Belt resi development on the rise
There's been a bloom of residential developments on Green Belt land under the Coalition Government, with the number of resi approvals rising by 148% over the last five year
Nod for Brimelow McSweeney’s Soho scheme
Brimelow McSweeney has bagged planning permission for its residential designs on 181-185 Wardour Street in the heart of Soho