All Expert comment articles – Page 15
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BGP’s Victoria Broadhead on how retail brands are seeking out opportunities across the UK
One of the effects of the pandemic was that the public became more familiar with the retailing ‘on our doorstep’. The shopping that millions of us might have done in the places we worked was now being done close to where we lived.
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French connection, UK ambitions
When it comes to British commercial property, folk don’t come earlier educated than Phillippa Prongué. ‘Pip’, to friends, is as English as a Barbour jacket and Hunter wellies. The surname? Pip’s husband is French.
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Turley’s Richard Laming on why digitisation of the UK planning system is not just a pipedream
Looking back over its nearly 80-year history, it is clear England’s town and country planning system has experienced unprecedented transformation in recent years.
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Hammock’s Marco Ferrari on the rise of buy-to-let limited companies
Changes in tax, stricter regulations and a stronger focus on compliance: the property industry has seen a strong push towards the professionalisation of landlords over the last few years, and more changes are on the horizon. Consequently, landlords are looking at new ways to manage their property business.
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Linesight’s Giles Heather on industrial intensification
The emerging trend of ‘industrial intensification’ is bringing distribution centres into much closer proximity with residential development, and bringing new opportunities for developers, occupiers and communities.
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Webb Yates Engineers’ Elisa Sartori on why inaction on carbon emissions will have a high cost
The government’s 2050 net zero strategy, corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets and the 2025 Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) regulations on leased buildings are all working in sync to nudge those who own and occupy commercial buildings to think carefully about their decarbonisation roadmap.
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A new urban industrial revolution
The emerging trend of industrial intensification is bringing distribution centres much closer to residential developments, and bringing new opportunities for developers, occupiers and communities.
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Gove wrong to bow to Nimbyism
Readers of this column will know that I was once housing secretary Michael Gove’s biggest fan.
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FORE Partnership’s Basil Demeroutis on the tyranny of incrementalism
What is holding our industry back from making the critical changes needed to decarbonise? The kind of durable, dramatic, systemic change that acknowledges the significant role we play as protagonists in the climate crisis and makes amends for our responsibility in creating it.
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Perkins&Will’s Jo Wright on the meaning of fiduciary duty to best value
Designing a building to achieve ‘best value’ has never been more complicated.
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Hartnell Taylor Cook’s Richard Saunders on Bristol’s changing high street
The last few years have taken their toll on Britain’s high streets. The pandemic led many to become accustomed to online shopping, and with the current economic crisis, customers are prioritising cutting costs above hitting the shops. However, retail is reacting.
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Grainger’s Helen Gordon on why landlord bashing won’t fix the real problem of supply
Recently, several mainstream media channels have covered the health of the UK rental market and the plight of renters across the country. From rising rents to lack of stock, high demand, poor-quality homes and generally bad experiences, the image of landlords has taken a further bashing.
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Renewable power that’s fit for the future
It is clear from speaking to customers that ensuring their logistics space is fit for purpose for the future, both operationally and economically, is foremost in their decision making.
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Demand for multi-let space keeps growing
It is remarkable how resilient occupier activity continues to be in the multi-let industrial (MLI) sector, amid the wider macroeconomic slowdown.
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Compromise is crucial for urban logistics
Demand from occupiers for grade-A sustainable urban logistics space in strategic locations throughout the UK continues to rise.
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I&L’s planning challenge
Despite the recent well-documented economic challenges, occupational demand for warehouse space across the UK is booming. However, available sites remain in very short supply.
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Hide chequebook to avoid blues
The more you spend, the less value you obtain. Several housebuilders have learned that the hard way in the past couple of decades. Somebody should tell that to Chelsea FC’s American co-owner.
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Blend’s Yann Murciano on why the government must breathe new life into the Bank Referral Scheme
The fallout from last year’s mini-Budget sent shockwaves across the economy and had an unlikely collateral damage.
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IWBI’s Ann Marie Aguilar explains what’s good for people is also good for business
Innovation is about imagining a better future. Among the ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic, many employees are still concerned about their health in the workplace and are opting to work remotely – leading to struggling city centres and organisations holding leases for properties that are far from full capacity.
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Assael Architecture’s Félicie Krikler and Adam Fothergill on the difference three little words can make
There are many proposed changes to National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and, as a profession, three common words are about to take a whole new dimension.