Latest letters
Time to plan for an ageing population
Editor: Housing secretary Robert Jenrick’s announcement of ‘radical reform’ to the country’s antiquated planning system must be celebrated (‘Jenrick to announce radical planning shake-up’)
Planners failing on sustainability
Editor: The Town and Country Planning Association survey findings are no surprise, but hugely frustrating given the focus on sustainability, climate change and now, driving a green economy (‘Most planning committees fail to “seriously consider” climate crisis’).
Developers must consider the neighbours
Editor: The government giveth with one hand and taketh with the other in its planning system reforms (‘Industry reacts to Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 recovery speech’).
The traditional office has advantages over flexi space
Editor: I have followed your articles by Steve Jude, chief executive of NewFlex, on the whys and wherefores of the service office market for many years and have always found him optimistic about the serviced office market competing with, and perhaps taking over, from the traditional market.
Government must aid the F&B recovery
Editor: Having seen numerous cycles, although they have not been easy, I have been comforted by the knowledge that food and beverage (F&B) is always the last to fall and the first to recover.
The return to offices calls for some flexibility
Editor: Gerald Kaye’s column did a fantastic job of extolling the office’s virtues and pointing out home-working’s limitations.
WeWork generation are our future
Editor: We are hearing lots of doom and gloom about what will happen to the huge amount of vacant office space appearing across the capital.
Property needs diverse new talent
Editor: We are fully behind the chancellor in supporting young people into employment, and London’s real estate sector must seize the opportunity to recruit young people from all backgrounds.
Planning reform key to UK recovery
Editor: The prime minister is clearly backing construction to dig us out of the economic hole created by Covid-19 (’Industry reacts to Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 recovery speech’).
We must plug housing investment gap
Editor: As lockdown eases, we are reminded that we need to get the economy going again.
A chance to evolve, not Armageddon
Editor: I read the article ‘Wade warns of Armageddon’, with interest and a little frustration.
Tenants’ code is too little, too late
Editor: Unfortunately, the new Code of Practice for commercial property came too little too late for the June rent quarter day (‘Government extends ban on tenant evictions and releases code of conduct’.
