Residential planning & policy

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  UK’s new-build houses will be sold as freehold, says James Brokenshire

  2019-06-28T15:51:00+01:00By Alex Howlett

  Communities Secretary James Brokenshire announced Friday that all new-build houses will be sold as freeholds during an address at the Chartered Institute of Housing conference in Manchester.

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  Galliard Homes gets green light for Nine Elms Parkside scheme

  2019-06-27T13:13:00+01:00By Emma Shone

  Galliard Homes has been given the green light for a 280,000 sq ft mixed-use scheme at Nine Elms Parkside, London.

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  Stop leasehold Help to Buy sales, says Brokenshire

  2019-06-27T11:50:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Housing secretary James Brokenshire wants to stop all leasehold houses being sold through the Help to Buy scheme, according to an interview in The Times.

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  May pledges minimum size requirements for residential properties

  2019-06-26T10:39:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Theresa May will today promise to introduce minimum space requirements to end “rabbit hutch” new homes.

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  Khan approves Kensington Forum after affordable homes tripled

  2019-06-21T11:50:00+01:00By Helen Crane

  Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has approved Queensgate Investments and Rockwell Property’s plans to redevelop the Kensington Forum Hotel, after the developers agreed to make all the homes in the scheme affordable.

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  Report reveals development appetite of London councils

  2019-06-20T10:27:00+01:00By Helen Crane

  Brent, Ealing and Hackney identified as ‘pro-regeneration’ boroughs in study of councils’ planning decisions

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  Councils to be required to report CIL deals with developers

  2019-06-04T12:46:00+01:00By Helen Crane

  Councils will be required to report how much developers are paying in Community Infrastructure Levies (CIL) and what the money is spent on, under new rules proposed by the government.

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  ‘Less than 1%’ of London PDR homes affordable

  2019-05-31T10:48:00+01:00By Helen Crane

  Less than 1% of homes that have been built under permitted development rights in London are affordable, according to research published by Labour’s London Assembly housing spokesperson, Tom Copley.

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  Harlow Council seeks new PDR exemption

  2019-05-23T14:50:00+01:00By Mitchell Labiak

  Essex council mulls Article 4 direction against new permitted development rules

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