Properties
Tall Storeys: Big spike in London high-rise construction
New stats have shown there are currently 263 buildings over 20 storeys either proposed, approved or under construction within Greater London, up from 236 at the same point last year.
Where The Sun Don’t Shine: Owner of Grade II listed house wins legal battle over £10.5m solar farm
The owner of a Grade II listed mansion in Wiltshire has reportedly won a legal battle that could mean the removal of a brand new 54-acre solar energy farm.
Gifford Hall, Broughton Gifford
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ campus-to-resi opportunity comes to market in Glasgow
"The largest and most eagerly anticipated development opportunity in Scotland this year" has come up in the heart of Glasgow’s affluent west end.
Project Blue Monday: Construction work begins on Chelsea Barracks
After eight years of preparation, speculation, and even a royal intervention, it's been reported that construction work has finally begun at the 13-acre Chelsea Barracks site on Chelsea Bridge Road.
Last of the iceberg houses? Westminster approves billionaire Bertarelli’s Belgravia mega-basement
Kirsty Bertarelli - Britain's richest woman, a songwriter and a former Miss UK - has won planning permission to dig out a two-storey basement underneath her Belgravia mews house "to make it more conducive…
Prime Property of the Week: Glass Act
Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill
£10.5m
Apartment at former home of Sir John Everett Millais asks £4.95m
An apartment at 7 Palace Gate, the former home of painter and illustrator Sir John Everett Millais, has just come up for sale for a shade under £5m.
Government updates development appraisal tool
The Homes & Communities Agency's free development appraisal tool - a site specific cashflow spreadsheet that assesses the viability of a scheme - has been updated to a newer, shinier version.
Planners ‘astonished’ to find Kensington property had been demolished
RBKC planners have halted work on a site in Kensington after an ad hoc visit revealed the developer had cracked on before fulfilling a key condition of the permission.
Abingdon Road in Kensington (archive)
Green House: Belgravia refurb becomes first listed building to hit BREEAM Outstanding
A Grade II listed home on Ebury Street, Belgravia, has won BRE's BREEAM Residential Award after becoming the first listed building in the UK to achieve the highest possible "Outstanding" rating for its…
‘Incredibly rare’ Grade I terrace up for sale in Bath
Three adjacent Grade I townhouses built by Thomas Baldwin have just come up for sale in the World Heritage City of Bath.
McCloud’s HAB moves into the luxury market
Kevin McCloud's HAB Housing has landed planning approval from the Vale of White Horse District Council for its first luxury resi development: Five houses just outside Oxford that "will embody the company’s…