Planning

There's been a big twist in the ongoing plot to redevelop Kensington High Street's Odeon cinema.

CPC Group's proposed 24 unit scheme on Holland Park has been turned down by the Royal Borough's planners on architectural grounds due, in part at least, to the council's mega-basement ban policy.

Capital & Counties has continued its "tactical acquisition strategy" in Covent Garden with the bagging of yet another key site.

City fund managers reckon the value of Royal Mail's portfolio of redundant sorting offices and sites has doubled in under two years. Mount Pleasant sorting office

Council planning teams across the UK are being tooled up with a £1m war chest to stop unruly developers and homeowners in their tracks. Pickles on the job

Kensington & Chelsea council is "reminding" owners of the borough's listed buildings about their responsibilities, sending out a mailshot to all listed homes and launching a new web page .

Another week, another new acquisition by Carter Jonas, this time in the shape of two Cambridge-based property firms.

Ridgeford Properties has handed in its planning application to create an entire new block on the Moxon Street car park site behind Marylebone High Street.

Wandsworth Council has unanimously given the thumbs up to another major mixed use scheme in the borough, which the developers are calling the "Gateway to the Nine Elms on the South Bank".

Minister of State for Housing and Planning Brandon Lewis has been busy updating Parliament on the coalition government's attempts at freeing up the planning system.

Mayor Boris has approved plans for a mega-development on the eastern edge of Canary Wharf, which should create some 3,610 new homes.

Plans have been submitted to Westminster Council for the conversion of three properties on Cornwall Terrace into one 33,000 square foot uber-pile.