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Westminster squares up to Boles in bid to block £800m Waterloo scheme
Westminster City Council and English Heritage have applied for a judicial review of plans that “would cause substantial harm” to sight lines around the Palace of Westminster, which forms a World Heritage Site together with Westminster Abbey.
Lib Dem crackdown
Deputy leader Simon Hughes guns for overseas resi investors in London ahead of 2015 election campaign
Regional rankling spills from property to politics
Inequality — the disparity between London and the regions in particular — is property’s grand narrative, and will also be key to the next election in 2015.
Need to know: image rights to iconic schemes
Last year Guernsey introduced the world’s first registrable image rights legislation, which incorporates inanimate objects and breaks new ground in asset protection.
Deputy prime minister launches local growth committee
The deputy prime minister will announce the formation of a new cabinet committee to encourage local growth today.
Labour calls for community-led planning system
Labour has promised to reverse some of the coalition’s controversial planning laws in order to give communities more power.
Property companies head up social stock exchange
Three property companies have become founding members of a social stock exchange launched by the prime minister this morning.
Government launches single insolvancy complaints gateway
The government has launched a single gateway for complaints against insolvency practitioners in order to increase transparency.
DCLG publishes criteria for councils which are "poor performing" on planning
Local authorities must make more than 70% of their planning decisions within 13 weeks or face special measures to make development easier under new rules published by the government today.
The Ministry of Mind Control
The government’s mysterious Nudge Unit is moving into the world of property. Sarah Townsend prepares to be influenced
Hope for landlords after fresh empty rates ruling
Following a landmark decision by the high court, landlords have a new opportunity to avoid extensive business rates on empty commercial premises – through the use of Bluetooth messaging.
Sites to gain protection from village green wars
Changes will protect sites in planning stages from protestor action.
Divergent economy will take political centre stage
The famously inscrutable outgoing governor of the Bank of England broke into a close approximation of a public grin last month.
Landlords: reform archaic 1954 act
Property owners call for reform to aid innovative and dynamic retail sector. Kat Spybey reports
BPF president heralds improving UK market
The president of the British Property Federation will tell industry representatives later today that there are signs of improvement across the UK thanks to several months of stabilisation and marginal economic growth.
Councils’ latest salvo in office-to-resi row
Brighton and Hove among those considering legal challenges to new policy.
Help to buy off to "flying start"
House builders are set to benefit as around 4,000 people have applied for a new home in just two months through a government equity loan fund.
Lords committee to scrutinise Olympic Park regeneration
The House of Lords has formed a new committee to scrutinise the progress of the regeneration of the Olympic Park.
Housebuilders call for subsidy for regional private rented housing
The head of a major housebuilder has called for the private rented sector to be given a use class of its own in order to access more funding.
CoreNet seminar stresses dilapidations vigilance
Corporate occupiers should spell out repairs obligations when leases are drafted, to prevent disputes from arising.
