Watch: Mega-crane gets to work at Battersea Power Station

London has seen "a normalisation of single-storey basements as the 21st-century version of the loft conversion," says Professor Burrows in a new study of the capital's "luxified troglodytism".

See months of graft condensed into ninety seconds with this time-lapse of Clivedale's forthcoming Mandarin Oriental-branded scheme on Hanover Square.

Property developers are getting back on-sites following Government advice - but construction supply chains have been disrupted and sales activity has been thwarted.