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OnlineNon-dom rates bill threatens Scotland’s student accommodation sector
An amendment to Scotland’s Non-Domestic Rates Bill will harm investment in the student accommodation sector, the Scottish Property Federation (SPF) said on Thursday.
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Insight
Airspace: lenders must catch up
Airspace developments have hit the headlines in a big way recently. Planning policy is on board, housing secretary Robert Jenrick is on board and increasingly advanced construction methods are at our disposal. There is a clear appetite to build upwards as a solution to providing housing in dense areas.
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Online
Safra files appeal for rejected Tulip skyscraper
Joseph Safra is trying to resurrect plans for City of London skyscraper The Tulip after plans for the eye-catching landmark were thrown out last year.
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Online
Green light for £300m hotel on site with tunnel to Harrods
A £300m hotel is to be built on a site in Kensington that has a secret tunnel to Harrods, after planning permission for the scheme was granted.
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News
Basingstoke Council submits planning for 45,000 sq ft office scheme
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council have submitted planning for a 45,000 sq ft office scheme as part of its regeneration programme.
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Online
Jenrick announces new building safety measures
Housing minister Robert Jenrick has announced new measures to improve building safety standards.
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Insight
Boris has redrawn property map
Boris Johnson’s election victory was as much of a landslide in tectonic terms as political. Britain’s regional red and blue plates have not so much slid as flipped and the aftershocks could reverberate across the property market for years to come.
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Professional
New initiative gives fresh hope for affordable housing delivery
Industry is cautiously optimistic that government’s First Homes policy will succeed where Starter Homes failed.
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Online
Richard Desmond wins planning battle for Printworks
Richard Desmond’s plans for the £1bn Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs, which were previously rejected by the planning inspector, have now been given the green light.
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Online
RICS issues new guidance on building condition reports
RICS will have released new guidance - ‘Technical Due Diligence’ , in a bid to improve the health and safety reporting of commercial assets during their sale.
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Online
City of London Corporation's chief planning officer to retire
City of London corporation’s chief planning officer Annie Hampson OBE will retire in March.
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Professional
Will corporate disclosure rules affect the battle to retain talent?
New UK legislation coming into force soon will require more disclosure of beneficial ownership, which is going to make it much more straightforward to identify the individuals behind corporations.
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Online
Sadiq Khan reduces new home targets in revised London Plan
Sadiq Khan has slashed the housing targets in his London Plan following recommendations from planning inspectors.
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Online
Grainger gets green light for Waterloo redevelopment
Grainger has received planning permission to redevelop a housing estate in Waterloo, London.
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Insight
An opportunity to revive old ideas
Political certainty, in the sense of a government with a substantial working majority, is not the same thing as policy certainty.
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Insight
A government property revolution
At the end of December, my ‘tour’ as chair of the Government Property Agency (GPA) comes to an end. It seems like a good time, therefore, to reflect on why we were established in the first place, what we have achieved and what more remains to be done.
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Insight
What does the election result mean for the planning system?
As I write this we now know we have new government led by Boris Johnson with a large majority and a mandate to get “things done”. So what should it do to improve the planning system?
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Online
Beauty and the planning beast
Beauty, it seems, is not just in the eye of the beholder. It is set to be enshrined in national planning guidance.
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Online
Planning defeat forces Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation to change regeneration plans
The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has been forced to make a U-turn over plans for the West London regeneration scheme after defeat in a planning battle, which will see it lose the £250m provisionally granted to it from the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund.
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Online
Election result gives residential developers confidence
The Conservative election victory is expected to drive a recovery in the housing market but some in the build-to-rent (BTR) sector are concerned about the new government’s home ownership-focus.
