All Legal articles – Page 25
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ProfessionalNew review sets out blueprint for extensive reform of the Scottish planning system
There’s little doubt about the biggest job in the Scottish government’s new local government minister Kevin Stewart’s planning in-tray.
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ProfessionalMet station sell-off brings prime London locations to the market
The sell-off of police stations generates opportunities for innovative London developments.
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ProfessionalIs Sadiq Khan right to crack down on the conversion of offices to residential?
The mayor wants to restrict the amount of office-to-resi conversions in the capital to protect premises for small businesses.
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ProfessionalAutonomous vehicles are set to transform the built environment – will the industry be ready?
It seems that little more than a week goes by these days without a national newspaper or broadcaster featuring a story on how autonomous vehicles (AVs) - most famously the Google Car - are going to revolutionise the world.
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OnlineUncertainty over referendum outcome is hurting building trade
Having suffered the worst recession in a generation, things were just returning to positive territory when suddenly the government decided to inject a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability back into the economy with an EU referendum.
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ProfessionalWhat will be the impact of moving business rates back under local authority control?
While strained at the best of times, relations between the property industry and local government hit a new low in the 1980s, when so-called ‘loony left’ councils hiked local business taxes to relieve the domestic rates burden on the households whose votes they relied upon.
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ProfessionalCheck your privilege: property must be inclusive for all
The real estate industry is working hard to create a more diverse and inclusive culture, but there is more to do.
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ProfessionalSustainability is good but not without health & wellbeing
Reducing the impact of offices, homes and other buildings on the environment has become commonplace, but what about the impact of buildings on their inhabitants?
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ProfessionalAre minimum floor space regulations still relevant in the age of millennial living?
Having stuff is so last century: that’s the message of a string of reports seeking to find out what makes millennials tick.
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ProfessionalBirmingham’s huge housing deficit reflects wider issues in planning system – but what can be done?
A lack of strategic planning is thwarting local councils’ efforts to meet their housing needs.
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ProfessionalCommercial property sector needs to embrace positive disruption
Four months in and 2016 is already shaping up to be a year of uncertainty - can positive disruption enable businesses to stay ahead of the curve?
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ProfessionalWho are better off following recent Court of Appeal judgment – planners or developers?
A Court of Appeal decision last month threatens to drive a coach and horses through a swathe of development plans across England.
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ProfessionalPrepare now for gender pay gap reporting
In pursuit of the government’s commitment to end the widely publicised gender pay gap, a new statutory obligation to report on pay - specifically any gender pay gaps within an organisation - is coming into force.
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ProfessionalOpen City’s new chief executive talks Green Sky Thinking and more equitable cities
Rory Olcayto talks to PW about urban resilience, sustainable design… and the importance of drinking fountains.
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ProfessionalThe pre-app process has lost its way – but it can be saved
In 2003 local authorities were given the power to charge for pre-application advice but the routine since has lost its shine.
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ProfessionalNew commission seeks to provide answers on sustainable development
The core principle of the coalition government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was the “presumption in favour of sustainable development”.
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ProfessionalAre the government’s planning proposals just a matter of change for change’s sake?
While England football manager Roy Hodgson would surely have welcomed the chance to pick his referee for the friendly against the Netherlands, developers may soon be possible to choose who processes their planning applications.
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ProfessionalPlace, tech and people: creating offices of the future
By the year 2020, 50% of the global workforce will be millennials - what challenges will the office real estate sector face in creating space for this new breed of employee?
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MarketsBusiness rates reform: should the chancellor have done more?
Many have welcomed George Osborne’s Budget nnouncement, but questions remain over certain areas including the business rates reforms.
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ProfessionalApprenticeships can guide new generation into retail
The retail property industry is waking up to the true value of our younger generation
