Google owner ditches plans for pioneering ‘smart city’
Sidewalk Labs has abandoned its grand plan to create a 12-acre “smart city” on Toronto’s waterfront.
Tag: Waterfront
Flood risks ‘yet to hit house price growth’
Property prices in many of the UK’s most flood-prone locations have increased faster than their surrounding local area over the last ten years…
American billionaire continues ultra-prime buying spree, bagging a fashion designer’s Hamptons compound
Ken Griffin has reportedly bought Calvin Klein’s seven-acre Atlantic-front compound in the Hamptons.
In Pictures: Boutique seaside scheme becomes Britain’s first ‘Passivhaus Plus’ multi-unit development
Seaton Beach on Devon’s Jurassic Coast is the first multi-unit development in the UK to be certified as “Passivhaus Plus”. The innovative seafront scheme has won a realm of sustainability and design awards…
How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
“Urban areas have been creating flood risk,” writes Lee Bosher. “And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development.”
Hong Kong’s prime Kai Tak development plot goes for HK$15.95bn
A consortium of property developers has acquired the most valuable slice of residential development land on Hong Kong’s former airport, for significantly less than the adjacent plot
Developers wanted for key waterfront sites in Liverpool
CBRE is marketing Kings Dock on the Mersey as seven prime development sites totalling 7.6 acres
Acorn acquires 75-home development site in the Cotswold Water Park
40-acre site has plans in place for 75 new homes and two new private lakes
Final sign-off granted for Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens site
Planning approval for landscape designs mean that works can finally start on the 4.9 acre site next year.
Stags moves into new Plymouth digs
The new offices are more accessible to clients, says the West Country property agency
U+I reveals green-fronted Greenwich Peninsula masterplan
Morden Wharf aims to deliver around 1,500 new homes on a 7.6 hectare riverside site
Trio of new super-prime mansions offered for sale on Guernsey
Savills is marketing three remarkable new homes on Guernsey, all of which would break the island’s current price record