All Planning & policy articles – Page 40
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Insight
Propelling the UK to self-reliance
Brexit, the pandemic and the Ukraine conflict have all disrupted supply chains and marked turning points in the priority that European policymakers place on their own self-reliance.
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Markets
Getting to know your NABERS
The industry’s net zero drive has spawned a burgeoning benchmarking industry. Greg Pitcher reports.
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Insight
Show football mobs the red card
One of the highlights of the summer was the UEFA Women’s Euro Championship and the thrilling performance of the England team. They have rightly won praise, setting an example that will be an inspiration for girls and women today, and for future generations.
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News
Q&A: Rapleys head of resi on affordable housing demand
Nick Fell outlines the current practical issues facing the sector and what government should do to help.
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News
Stoford lodges plans for new BBC broadcasting centre in Birmingham
Developer Stoford has submitted a planning application for the BBC’s 84,000 sq ft new Birmingham home at the historic Typhoo building in Digbeth.
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Online
Winkworth raises profit forecast despite higher mortgage costs after mini-Budget
In a trading update for the 10 months to the end of October, estate agency group M Winkworth told investors that the residential property market remained strong in the third quarter.
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News
Glenbrook submits application for £250m Trafford development
Developer Glenbrook has submitted a detailed planning application for the residential and public realm elements of Lumina Village, a £250m mixed-use scheme in Trafford, Greater Manchester.
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Online
Report shows large planning projects returning to pre-pandemic levels
Deal completions are stabilising at near to pre-pandemic levels despite lower overall commercial transaction levels compared with 2019, according to a report from Landmark Information Group.
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Online
Deadline on stamp duty a ‘really bad idea’, says industry
The industry has slammed the decision in this week’s Autumn Statement to end stamp duty cuts at the end of March 2025.
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News
City Corporation’s £1bn London market plans to go in front of Parliament
The City of London Corporation has voted to deposit a private bill in Parliament to seek approval for a £1bn scheme to combine Smithfield, Billingsgate and New Spitalfields markets in Dagenham.
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Online
Mixed industry reaction as Hunt scraps Kwarteng’s Investment Zones
The scrapping of proposed Investment Zones in the Budget received a mixed reaction from the property industry.
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Online
Autumn Statement: Revaluation of business properties to go ahead from April 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed that the revaluation of business properties will go ahead from April 2023.
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Online
Autumn Statement: Chancellor unveils plans for stability, growth, and public services
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement today that he aimed to restore stability to the economy, protect high-quality public services and build long-term prosperity for the UK.
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News
AXIS-RE and Cervidae get green light for Chester hotel
Developer AXIS-RE and real estate investor Cervidae have secured planning consent from Cheshire West & Chester Council for a 162-bedroom hotel in Chester city centre.
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Insight
England still needs freehold system
Since a thumping 2019 General Election win, the Conservative government has pursued a reckless war with freeholders in England. Its strategy, seemingly only adopted to win political capital, will remove professional oversight in apartment blocks, putting residents’ safety at risk while significantly increasing the number of dilapidated buildings.
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News
Industry backs hotel use for asylum seekers
The use of hotels to house refugees and asylum seekers is temporary but necessary, hotel sector experts have insisted, after the High Court ruled the Home Office had a statutory duty to provide accommodation for destitute asylum seekers who would otherwise be homeless.
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News
Khan in the firing line after rent freeze calls
Property industry not invited to attend mayor of London’s emergency summit
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News
Government must support later-living developers
Editor: Given the UK’s housing shortage, many will be pleased to hear Michael Gove’s recommitment to building 300,000 new homes by the mid-2020s.
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Professional
Understanding resi liabilities
Resident-owed management company and freeholder 89 Holland Park (Management) was called upon by the leaseholders to object to planning permission and enforce a covenant against a neighbouring property.
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Insight
Brace for the impact of real austerity
In 1947, as he was about to present his Budget, Labour’s Hugh Dalton, the then chancellor of the exchequer, let slip to an old friend: “No more on tobacco; a penny on beer; something on dogs and pools but not on horses; increase in purchase tax, but only on articles ...