Residential planning & policy

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  £70m Sale Town regeneration approved

  2019-03-18T16:38:00+00:00By Riya Makwana

  Trafford Council has approved Maloneview’s £70m regeneration plans for The Square Shopping centre in Sale, Manchester.

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  Old Oak gets £250m government funding

  2019-03-13T17:24:00+00:00By Helen Crane

  The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has been awarded £250m from the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund to kick-start development on the West London site.

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  Chancellor unveils £3bn Affordable Homes scheme in the Spring Statement

  2019-03-13T14:00:00+00:00By Frances Ivens

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond has announced a new £3bn Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme to support the delivery of around 30,000 new affordable homes.

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  Waltham Forest Council unveils Town Hall Campus plans

  2019-03-13T11:59:00+00:00By Frances Ivens

  Waltham Forest Council has launched its vision for a new neighbourhood which will deliver 450 homes and a new Town Hall Campus.

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  PDR could ‘kill off high street’, planners warn

  2019-03-06T11:43:00+00:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Expanded permitted development rights (PDR) could kill off the high street by replacing shops with homes and creating “dead frontages”, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has warned.

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  Mayor of London warns of ‘catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit impact on housing

  2019-02-27T10:40:00+00:00By Mitchell Labiak

  The Mayor of London, London Councils and the G15 group of London’s largest housing associations have written an open letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government warning of the “catastrophic” effects that a no-deal Brexit could have on affordable housing delivery.

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  Will critical NAO report force planning reform?

  2019-02-14T00:00:00+00:00By Mitchell Labiak

  The planning system is “not working well” with half of all local authorities unlikely to meet the government’s housing delivery targets and infrastructure funding lacking cohesion and certainty, according to a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO).

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  Planning appeal decision times could be cut by five months, review finds

  2019-02-12T00:01:00+00:00By Riya Makwana

  The Planning Inspectorate could cut the time it takes to decide a planning appeal from 47 to 26 weeks, according to an independent government report published today.

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  Government planning system ‘not working well’

  2019-02-08T12:48:00+00:00By Helen Crane

  The government’s planning system is ‘not working well’ and the target of 300,000 homes per year by the mid-2020s will be ‘challenging’ to meet, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).

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