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.
Tag: Waterfront
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. “Our ambition is to build one of the most beautiful small towns in England,” says the developer.
Contemporary Cornish beach house in a ‘sublime’ position offered for £3.85m
An award-winning modern house on the south Cornwall coast has come up for sale, sporting some “fantastic” eco-credentials and a “sublime” position right on the beach.
Plans go in for a 1,500-home riverside scheme in Greenwich
In Pictures:Â Morden Wharf is U+I’s latest massive regeneration project in London, promising to transform a 19 acre former sugar factory site into “a distinctive, green, mixed-use neighbourhood”.
Charles Dickens’ clifftop retreat offered for sale as a restoration project
Bleak House, overlooking Viking Bay in Kent, is being pitched as “the perfect canvas for an ambitious renovation project”.
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.
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.”