Insight and comment
Peter Bill on Labour’s new housing gameplan
Guardian 9 March: Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet will meet top civil servants in Whitehall before Easter as Labour prepares to form the next government. That post-Easter conversation imagined: Treasury mandarin to DLUHC permanent secretary Sarah Healey: “Anything we need to worry about?”
What goes down…
Anyone feeling bleak about today’s depressed property values should take heart from this week’s cover star: Roger Madelin of British Land.
Unpicking Hunt’s axing of MDR
End of multiple dwellings relief solves abuse of the system but could also cripple legitimate investors.
Make some noise for Newcastle
A new music venue planned for former Debenhams store makes perfect sense for this party city.
SME housebuilders need backing
The regulatory landscape, high interest rates and planning issues are holding housebuilding back.
New life for labs in urban spaces
Today’s science graduates want to stay closer to the action and the life they knew while studying.
International Women’s Day: Puma’s Tarinee Pandey on why true inclusion equals belonging
The theme of International Women’s Day is ‘Inspire Inclusion’ – but what does that mean?
International Women’s Day: Real Estate Balance’s Sue Brown on progressing gender equality beyond the annual celebration
Sue Brown, managing director at Real Estate Balance, reflects on how far gender equality has come since the organisation was established and how far it still has to go.
Retrospective clarity on retrofit
As we all know, Marks & Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store is at the centre of a long-running planning dispute, but it also happens to be slap bang in the middle of the City of Westminster.
Road to net zero gets bumpy as political U-turns on green pledges increase
Political U-turns on green pledges and investor withdrawals from ESG funds threaten progress to net zero.
Campaigners plot legal challenge to £700m ITV South Bank studios redevelopment
The scheme has just successfully emerged from an 18-month judicial review process led by Michael Gove
City uses override to block rights of light threat to £300m justice quarter
Threat of legal action from neighbouring occupiers had put future of Salisbury Square scheme at risk.
Michael Gove under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is examining the housing secretary’s register of financial interests.