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The major role of mayors
As is well known, a key tactic of politicians is to get ahead of expected losses.
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Insight
Embracing the need for change
In my late teens, my summer holidays were spent temping in factories on industrial estates to help pay for my university education. In a short but varied career in the industrial sector, I made French doors, packed Christmas gifts in sweltering 30-degree heat and processed holiday photos. It was tiring, ...
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Striking the right balance
As I write, voting in local elections has not yet begun, but I hope turnout will be somewhat higher than the typically abysmal rate seen outside general elections.
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Britain’s unnatural nature
The green rolling hills of the British countryside are a national treasure, but they are by no means natural. Think of unspoilt land and you might picture a patchwork of green fields divided by meandering hedgerows or dry-stone walls, home to placidly munching sheep or cows.
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Pay gaps: pay attention
Gender pay gap figures provoke no end of disgruntlement when published each year.
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Second-guessing second staircases
This week, we take a closer look at the implications of new second-staircase rules for high-rise residential developments.
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Object lessons in retrofitting
My regular commute to work includes a quarter-mile walk between rail and tube, along Newgate Street in the City of London near St Paul’s.
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Offset funding failure
Few in business will be entirely shocked to learn that a levy imposed by government has been collected with little idea of how to spend it.
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Mipim and the human factor
One of the joys of visiting Mipim is not knowing quite who you’ll meet or what you might hear while you’re there.
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What goes down…
Anyone feeling bleak about today’s depressed property values should take heart from this week’s cover star: Roger Madelin of British Land.
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Retrospective clarity on retrofit
As we all know, Marks & Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store is at the centre of a long-running planning dispute, but it also happens to be slap bang in the middle of the City of Westminster.
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Who inspects the inspectors?
As we warned last week, a “massive slowdown” in the residential sector is looming as the deadline for building control surveyors to register with the Building Safety Regulator draws closer.
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Hotel, office, home: It’s all in the mix
Over the past few years Property Week has frequently cited the trend of ‘hotelification’ in prime office development.
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Can AI cut it in property?
This week we examine how artificial intelligence (AI) might help, hinder or transform the property sector.
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Online
What does the future hold for BTS?
Head along any motorway in the UK and before long you’re bound to pass a vast warehouse development.
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Gove finally provides a soothing South Bank surprise
The long-awaited and much-delayed decision on the future of London’s South Bank will have triggered gasps of relief as much as surprise, given how many must surely have been holding their breath for the outcome.
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Ducking the deadly blows when contractors crash
Given all the challenges and setbacks a developer must survive before the first shovel goes into the ground on a new project, it must feel like a particularly brutal punch in the face when a contractor suddenly collapses before completing the work.
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Why Gove’s proposed ground rent plan is nuts
The phrase ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’ doesn’t quite measure up when it comes to the overblown solutions that housing secretary Michael Gove is weighing up to fix problems with residential ground rent.
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The Supreme Court’s carbon conundrum
The notion that a single courtroom verdict might throw the entire planning system into chaos does provoke a cynical question: how would we tell?
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There’s no profit in standing still
As you may have noticed, during the holiday break we’ve had the decorators in to update our print magazine’s look and feel. I hope you like the result, which is part of Property Week’s never-ending effort to improve the service we provide.