All Planning & policy articles – Page 8
-
InsightSaluting those ahead of their time
The new year brought sad news of the passing of property icon Godfrey Bradman, best known for his 1980s partnership with Sir Stuart Lipton’s Stanhope to develop the City of London’s Broadgate scheme, which then prime minister Margaret Thatcher described at the launch as the “largest development in the City ...
-
News
Get Living faces test case over £27m fire safety upgrade bill
Triathlon Homes launches legal bid to make landlord foot remediation bill at London Olympic Village flats.
-
News
Industry welcomes £60m brownfield fund
The property industry has welcomed the government’s pledge to provide an additional £60m to councils to redevelop brownfield sites for housing.
-
News
Land Registry set for mass civil servant strike action in February
Mass strike action within the civil service next month could impact the housing market as workers from the Land Registry and Registers of Scotland are set to join thousands of government colleagues in walking out.
-
News
Lendlease JV submits new plans for £3.5bn Silvertown megascheme
Lendlease has put forward fresh plans for its £3.5bn redevelopment to create a new neighbourhood at Silvertown in east London.
-
News
Hammerson unveils plans for major office overhaul of Birmingham John Lewis
Hammerson has submitted plans to turn the former John Lewis store in Birmingham’s Grand Central shopping centre into a major office development.
-
News
Property sector welcomes Skidmore Review on Net Zero
Leading figures from the UK property sector have broadly welcomed the Net Zero Review by MP Chris Skidmore but demanded greater government support to deliver the opportunities it identifies.
-
News
Peel L&P submits plans for university facility at MediaCity
Peel L&P, the regeneration arm of real estate investment firm Peel Group, has submitted plans to transform commercial space in Quay Plaza, part of Quayside MediaCity, Salford, Manchester, into a university facility.
-
News
Fears reforms could hit housing delivery
Fears are growing that recently announced government planning reforms could hit the number of homes delivered across the UK as they empower campaign groups and councils to resist new developments.
-
News
Exeter predicted to be first UK location to come out of recession
Exeter is predicted to be the first location in the UK to exit the recession, with the city on track to hit this target by mid-2023.
-
News
Homes at Barkingside tube station given green light
Plans to develop 98 homes next to Barkingside tube station in north-east London have been given the go-ahead by Redbridge Council.
-
News
Lambeth Council reveals Brixton town-centre development plans
Lambeth Council and its development partner London Square have launched plans for a significant residential development in Brixton, south London.
-
News
BPF launches affordable homes development tool kit
The British Property Federation (BPF) has launched a tool kit designed to boost the development of affordable homes, with the aim of providing a greater understanding of partnership models for investors and housing associations.
-
Online
NPPF gives LAs more reasons to reject new housing sites
Industry not keen on housing secretary Michael Gove’s reforms and their likely impact on housing delivery.
-
Insight
It’s up to us to lay foundations of economic recovery
There is no denying that the economic forecast for 2023 appears bleak for the built environment sector, with property values set to fall and construction rates to slow.
-
Insight
New flight path for Canary Wharf
Tom Venner’s first public statement since joining Canary Wharf Group (CWG) as development director last July offers one clue about his main task. The job in question being to draw up a new masterplan covering the 130-acre estate.
-
News
Q&A: Moda director and Hove MP discuss BTR partnership
James Blakey and Peter Kyle say scheme shows how public-private co-operation is key to local housing delivery.
-
News
Hospitality sector demands government action to stem closures
Hospitality sector leaders have called on the government to provide more support to prevent further closures in the light of a forthcoming reduction in energy bill support.
-
News
Unite snaps up £73m east London office building for large PBSA scheme
Unite Students has bought an office building in Stratford for £73m and is set to convert the east London site into a 716-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development.
-
News
NPPF to make housebuilding harder as LAs given more reasons to reject schemes
Even those who eat, drink and sleep property would have surely had little appetite to fully consume the government’s 15-chapter consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) when it was published so close to the end of the year.
