All Planning & policy articles – Page 38
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News
Politics, prices and property: 2022 in review
We look back at the biggest events and most-read stories of the year.
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Professional
Trials and tribulations: the key legal issues of the year
Planning, ESG, the workplace, skills, cladding and building safety were all on the property agenda in 2022.
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Insight
The planning system must be streamlined
There is a lot to unpack in Michael Gove’s latest announcements on planning reform. However, his general retreat from meaningful planning reform, his intention to penalise developers on buildout rates and his approach to diluting the ability to deliver housing will be to the detriment of those in desperate need ...
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Insight
Has Gove got it wrong this time?
Readers of this column will know that I have a special place in my heart for that most agile and effective of ministers, Michael Gove.
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Insight
Rates reform would boost Oxford Street’s revival
We welcome the recent figures from Savills showing Oxford Street is on the brink of a generational change, with 1.32m sq ft of office schemes proposed in the next five years – driven by market demand and the West End’s attraction to workers as a destination in itself.
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News
St Modwen gets green light for 200 homes on Longbridge site
Developer St Modwen Homes, owned by Blackstone, has secured full planning permission to build an additional 205 new homes at Longbridge on the historic MG Rover site in Birmingham.
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CWG and Kadans reveal plan to build life sciences tower in Canary Wharf
Developers Canary Wharf Group (CWG) and Kadans Science Partner have submitted plans for what they claim will be Europe’s largest life sciences building in east London’s financial district.
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Online
RICS appoints Samworth to chair new board
Martin Samworth has been appointed to chair the new RICS board, bringing 40 years of real estate and built environment experience to the role.
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News
267 apartments proposed for Manchester’s Northern Quarter
Detailed plans have been submitted for two apartment buildings in the Northern Quarter area of Manchester, which will create 267 homes.
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Sama buys Birmingham City Council’s Lancaster Circus site
Birmingham City Council has sold a six-storey council office building on a1.33-acre city centre site to Shariah-compliant property developer Sama Investment Group for an undisclosed amount.
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News
’Retrofit first, not retrofit only’, call from London Property Alliance
London developers and investors are calling for changes to planning policy to allow a ‘retrofit first, not retrofit only’ approach to futureproofing buildings
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News
Plymouth, Solent and Teeside freeports given final approval
Freeports in Plymouth, Solent and Teesside are now up and running after being given final government approval by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
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Norfolk and Suffolk to gain greater building powers in £1bn devolution deal
The counties of Norfolk and Suffolk will gain the right to set building policy in a devolution deal revealed by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
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News
Lambeth plans 6m sq ft office expansion
The London borough Lambeth has launched a blueprint for what it describes as the capital’s biggest increase in office space over the next decade.
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News
Industry slams Gove’s move to water down housing targets
Knight Frank, BPF and housebuilders warn that making targets ’advisory’ will put a brake on housing supply.
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Professional
The perils of a distressed market
Brodies (instructing Evie Barden of Landmark Chambers) made an urgent application to the Insolvency Court on behalf of a commercial landlord who had recently purchased a multi-million-pound commercial property, seeking to prevent the dissolution of the selling company that had been in administration.
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Insight
Isn’t it time for a broader use designation system?
In response to your recent leader article ‘Postmodern planning reform’, I thought I’d share my views on the current ‘planning apartheid’.
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News
PIF changes to boost property funds sector
Professional investor fund rule changes set to attract more institutional investors
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Professional
Reading council picks nuclear option in the battle over PDR
Council’s implementation of Article 4 direction could have implications for government’s housebuilding plans.
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News
Planning officers’ advice overruled as council throws out ‘super embassy’ bid
Plans to build City complex rejected despite planning officers’ recommendations