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‘Well-designed’ new-build homes command an 11% price premium
PSF prices in the 15 most highly-rated resi developments for design in London on reviews platform HomeViews are an average of 11% higher than for comparable new-build sales in the same postcodes.
Designing a new City landmark: Inside the Pan Pacific tower
PLP Architecture, MSMR and Yabu Pushelberg are creating a statement mixed-use scheme in the heart of the Square Mile, delivering 160 high-spec private residences alongside a luxury hotel in a 43-storey…
Spectacular Weymouth waterfront development site offered with resi potential
A 12-acre brownfield development site has come to market on the Dorset coast, with panoramic sea views, direct access to the water on two sides, and planning permission already in place for a care village.
Green light for Keystone’s 5,000-home Royal Docks development
Foster + Partners' masterplan for Thameside West in East London has been given the go-ahead by Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe.
Build-to-rent giant partners with tech firm to create smarter buildings
One of Britain's biggest private build-to-rent developers/operators, Moda Living, has teamed up with an "internet of things" tech firm to help create "smarter buildings" with lower energy consumption,…
Council considers carte blanche for Prince Charles’s Cornish model town
Local planners are considering giving a rare Local Development Order to the Duchy of Cornwall's 540-acre "model town" extension to Newquay.
Planning for the Future: Government reveals details of ‘radical’ reforms to create ‘a whole new planning system for England’
This is "radical reform unlike anything we have seen since the Second World War," declares the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, as the Planning for the Future consultation opens.
Green light for developer’s plan ‘to build one of the most beautiful small towns in England’ on South Coast power station site
In Pictures: Fawley Waterside will deliver 1,500 new homes in a new "smart town" on the 300-acre Fawley Power Station site on Southampton Water, masterplanned by Poundbury architect Léon Krier.
Native Land rolls out boutique resi scheme in Marylebone
"TwentyFive" is a JV with The Portman Estate, designed by Stiff+Trevillion and MSMR.
Plans go in for major Edinburgh city centre development
Edinburgh's proposed New Town Quarter could deliver 300 homes, 100,000 sq ft of office space and a hotel on a 5.9 acre former RBS site.
John Lewis is considering turning surplus retail space into homes
"We are exploring with third parties the concept of new mixed-use affordable housing," says the John Lewis Partnership in a strategic review.
Property developer donates 16 modular homes for the homeless
Housebuilder Hill has donated the first batch of its "Foundation 200" free homes for the homeless, supplying 16 houses in Cambridgeshire.