Property Developer News
Grosvenor submits Cundy Street Quarter plans
Grosvenor has submitted its planning application for the Cundy Street Quarter regeneration in Belgravia, after more than a year of often torrid public engagement.
Westferry planning drama escalates
The Met Police are looking into the Housing Secretary's apparent bias in favour of the developer, and the Prime Minister has been quizzed by Labour MPs over his involvement.
Green light for GII’s resi-led Chelsea Police Station development
KPF's revised plan for Gulf Islamic Investments's 31-apartment scheme in a super-prime SW3 location has been given the go-ahead by RBKC Council.
Royalton repoints £130m scheme with a health bent for a post-pandemic market
Luxury property developer adapts residents' amenities at its Magna Carta Park scheme for "a changing world", pitching it as “a truly 21st century private estate”.
Knock-back for Kensington hotel-to-mansion plan
A plan to turn a "severely dilapidated" former hotel near Hyde Park into a "very large" family home has been dismissed by RBKC's planning inspector.
Ease planning rules to allow lockdown-hit hotels to be converted to resi, says top agency
"Looking at redevelopment options [rather than re-opening after lockdown] may be a far more realistic and rewarding route for a few hotel owners," says Colliers, as it calls for an extension to permitted…
High Court quashes Westferry Printworks planning consent
Northern & Shell's 15-acre waterside scheme near Canary Wharf has been sent back to the drawing board.
New homes watchdog advances
Natalie Elphicke has been installed as Chair of the fledgling New Homes Ombudsman.
Caudwell Collection recruits a new CEO in France
Reynald Lapitz helmed the recent £84m refurbishment of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge.
One in five new UK homes could be built using MMC by 2030
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) could help to kick-start the post-pandemic building industry around the world, predicts Savills, while delivering more energy-efficient homes more quickly and more…
Berkeley picks new PR team
Newgate has been hired to handle communications for three Berkeley Group brands: St James, St William and Berkeley Homes Eastern Counties.
Re-starting the housing market: Industry reactions to the easing of the Coronavirus lockdown for the property sector
It will not come as any great surprise that most in the property industry are pleased to be able to get back to work after seven weeks in lockdown.